Dandelion Strategy for Regenerating Earth Through Bioregional Learning Centers
Description
Joe Brewer et al. :
"A dandelion releases its seeds into the air. The wind carries them to many different places. Some of the seeds land where they can germinate and take root. Others land where they wither and die. The key insight of this strategy is that the dandelion has no way of knowing ahead of time which locations work better nor how to find them. It merely pushes out a huge number of seeds that are carried out into the world. Dandelions propagate well because they take root in many unexpected places.
Translated to our planetary context, this means we cannot know ahead of time which places will be resilient against collapse. The world is just too complex for planning out where to establish a regenerative cultural hub. What we can do instead is seed cultural patterns of regeneration in as many places as possible to increase the likelihood that some of them -- retrospectively -- reveal to have been resilient for reasons we never could have guessed.
This is the Dandelion Strategy.
The next question for us is how to seed regenerative cultures into being. This is where we follow in the footsteps of the late Donella Meadows. In an essay she wrote called A Brief History of the Balaton Group back in 1983, she shared that the only viable strategy that the best sustainability thinkers of her time could come up with was to establish a planetary network of bioregional learning centers."
(https://earthregenerators.substack.com/p/the-dandelion-strategy-for-regenerating)
More information
- Detailed introduction: https://www.bioregionalearth.org/flows/dandelion-strategy