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Here's the lowdown.
🪢 Sustainability is not enough. Sustainability does not generate resilience. When change happens, we need systems that are flexible and adaptable in order to thrive on our planet.
🫶 Regeneration means leaving things better than they were before.
🕸 We can look to regeneration as a way to reorganise, redesign and face the climate and social crises we are currently experiencing.
🍀 It is key that we understand that we humans are indivisible from other elements of nature - we are nature; nature is us! Therefore, we need to consider interconnected systems, rather than breaking things down into their component ‘parts’.
🌍 These systems can be our individual bodies (after all, each living being is a self-sustaining ecosystem, composed of many other systems), our communities, the wider ecosystem we live in and depend upon, and also our whole interconnected planet.
🥬 Permaculture is one regenerative movement that offers a way for humans to think, plan and behave in cooperation with nature. It asks ‘how can we create ways to continuously enrich our ecosystems?’
🫂 Far from simply being about farming or planting trees, Regeneration and Permaculture offer us ways to consider our place in the world, and design processes for personal wellbeing, thriving communities and a healthy, resilient planet.
🤝 It is possible to create innovative and thriving economies and value-exchange systems that are based on collaboration and cooperation, rather than competition and separation.
This week's challenge.
Andy Goldring from the UK Permaculture Association has set you the personal challenge of considering your inputs & outputs this week.
Ask yourself ‘what elements come into my life that help me to thrive?’ These can be tangible things such as the food you eat and the transport you use, through to the relationships you have, or any wellbeing practices you rely on to keep healthy.
Then think, what are the things that go out of my life? This could be compost, 'waste', or old clothes.
You can create a mind map on paper, write or type out your thoughts or simply use this as a thought exercise and an opportunity to spend a few minutes reflecting. It can help you think, what would you like to change about your inputs and outputs?
Continue Learning.
🎥 Join an up-coming Lusher Than We Found It Immersion session to discover how Lush is embodying regenerative principles in our mission to create more than we take away. You can find all future sessions on the Lush Learning Hub.
🖼 Check out the UK Permaculture Association’s Practical Solutions page to discover how this design process can relate to every aspect of human life, from our built environment to the way we organise our communities.
🙌 Join a course by the Permaculture Association to deepen your learning. Check out their course listings here.
🌱 Keen to take action in your own life? 52 Climate Actions platform offers an amazing tool to help you discover ways to take action right now and throughout your future.
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