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Welcome to our Library of Resources.
This is where we hope to sow the seeds of knowledge. Here we will share the books, writings, films, podcasts that inspire us to be the change;
to care for people and planet, and to leave the world better than we found it.
READ
READ
Braiding Sweetgrass... Robin Wall Kimmerer
Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants.
Small is Beautiful... E. F. Schumacher
A Study of Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of essays published in 1973 by German-born British economist.
How We Might Live... Suzanne Fagance Cooper
Exploring the lives and legacies of Jane and William Morris, finally giving Jane's work the attention it deserves and taking us inside two lives of unparalleled creative artistry.
The Good Ancestor... Roman Krznaric
With the message that there is still hope, this book explores six ways we can expand our time horizons to confront the great long-term challenges of our age.
Radical Love... Satish Kumar
Inspirational book of advice from environmental activist Satish Kumar, which helps us find ways to love ourselves, others, and all beings on planet Earth—even those we may find unlovable.
WILDING... Isabella Tree
Isabella Tree tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife.
SAND TALK... Tyson Yunkaporta
Through his Aboriginal perspective, Yunkaporta’s book teaches us how to use Indigenous wisdom to gain a better understanding of how the world works.
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible... Charles Eisenstein
A beacon of hope in the face of our current world crises, this uplifting book demonstrates how embracing our interconnectedness is key to world transformation and what we as individuals can do to make the world a better place.
HUMANKIND... Rutger Bregman
This ‘Hopeful History’ argues that people are decent at heart and proposes a new worldview based on the corollaries of this optimistic view of human beings.
Flourish: Design Paradigms For Our Planetary Emergency
Flourish: Design Paradigms For Our Planetary Emergency... Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlyn
A look at what it will take to restore balance to our world, repair past injustices, and support future generations' survival.
Leading from the Roots: Nature Inspired Leadership... Kathleen E. Allen
Leading from the Roots takes Nature as a source of inspiration to help organisations see a new way of leading and designing workplace structure.
Imaginal Cells: Visions of Transformation... Various Authors
A collection of essays that explore how a compassionate approach to business, finance, the environment and politics can transform our world.
Biomimicry in Business... Margo Farnsworth
How to use Nature’s strategies to solve business challenges and find a path to healthy profit while working in partnership, and even reciprocity, with the natural world.
Oneness vs The 1%... Kartikey Shiva and Vandana Shiva
Activist Vandana Shiva exposes the unaccountable actions of the ultra-rich and exposes the 1% 's model of philanthrocapitalism. A model which is deploying unaccountable money to bypass democratic structures, derail diversity, and impose totalitarianism.
Business Unusual... Nathalie Nahai
This book reveals the psychology behind how we feel about businesses, their communications and their leaders in a digital world.
Doughnut Economics... Kate Raworth
Exploring the idea of doughnut economy, based on the premise that humanity's 21st century challenge is to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet.
Net Positive...
How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take - Paul Polman
In this seminal book, the former Unilever CEO outlines how business can only profit in the modern age by aiming to fix global crises and give something back to society.
Regenerative Leadership... Laura Storm and Giles Hutchins
This book provides an exciting and comprehensive framework for building regenerative life-affirming businesses with tools and techniques for leaders to succeed and thrive in the 21st century.
ARTICLES
COP15 Global Biodiversity Framework
A new set of international goals to address the ongoing loss of terrestrial and marine biodiversity called the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), agreed to by 188 governments worldwide.
A Compass for a Just and Regenerative Business report
Forum for the Future
An outline of the business imperative to shape a just and regenerative future
Let's talk about 'regenerative business' not sustainability
World Economic Forum
An explainer of the difference between sustainability and the restoration and regeneration of natural resources and social systems
Regenerative Capitalism: How Universal Principles And Patterns Will Shape Our New Economy
John Fullerton
An understanding of what a theoretical framework for regenerative economies could look like, and what conditions and processes contribute to their long-term systemic health.
The Business of Wellbeing: A Guide to Alternatives to Business as Usual
Wellbeing Economy Alliance
A close look at the Wellbeing Economy, how can we put it into practice and the role of business in bringing it to life
Seven essential elements of action to profoundly rethink fashion and put the health and survival of our planet Earth before business interest and economic growth
Developing a Corporate Biodiversity Strategy: a primer for fashion
Drawing on a new approach called the Conservation Hierarchy, this paper lays out a simple process for fashion companies wishing to develop a robust corporate biodiversity strategy.
WATCH
A monthly book club by change agency Volans' that explores the exploding universe of books focused on creating positive exponential shifts helps business leaders open their minds to new possibilities.
Save Our Wild Isles Business Films
A discussion with leading business people about how the biodiversity crisis is bad for business and how, by taking action, businesses can help turn nature recovery into a crucial business opportunity.
Doing Little Things with Great Love
Satish Kumar & Daniel Wahl
A loving reminder that all of us can change the world, by carrying out small actions with great love, as tributaries to the larger river of our collective future life on Earth.
In Conversation: Kate Raworth and Janine Benyus
Doughnut economics creator Kate Raworth and Janine Benyus – leading biologist & biomimetic designer discuss how starting from the whole can allow us to build systems and structures that help us to thrive.
Design for Decomposition: Biomimicry Fireside Chat
Biomimicry Institute
A conversation about a leading project by the Biomimicry Institute to demonstrate scalable new pathways for tackling waste that embrace true decomposition in design to build healthy ecosystems.
LISTEN
A Fibershed podcast that stitches textile systems and traditions, economic philosophy, and climate science into a quilt of understanding, designed to transform our thinking and actions.
An anthology of the Anthropocene; focused on land-based protection, co-liberation and intersectional storytelling rooted in a paradigm shift away from human supremacy, endless growth and consumerism.
An award-winning podcast committed to positive ecological futures for the earth and its people, sharing the voices behind regenerative farming.
A podcast by The Woodland Presents CIC and Timber Strategies, that delves deep into the policy, ecology, economics, attitudes and perceptions that underpin current affairs, and explores meaningful interventions.
Intimate discussions with futurists about practical and transformative ideas to challenge convention to the roots of the old paradigm we have been used to.
A podcast with grass-roots leaders everywhere, changing the stories we live by and enabling the regeneration of life on this planet.
JOIN
The Better Business Act is a legislative proposal to transform the way we do business, so that every single company in the UK takes ownership of its social and environmental impact.
An open to join network for businesses of all sizes who believe that business has a major part to play in tackling the climate, ecological and social emergency.
A network of individuals working at all levels of the fashion industry raising awareness of the climate, ecological and social breakdown and empowering others to do the same.
Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action
An international industry initiative in which fashion and textile companies commit to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 and address their roles in climate change
A commitment open to brands and manufacturers from the fashion and textiles industry to end the sourcing of ancient and endangered forests in material supply chains.
A commitment open to brands and manufacturers to end the sourcing of ancient and endangered forests for wood pulp based fibres used in packaging materials for all industries globally.
A group of leading organisations working to enable companies and cities to play a vital role in creating an equitable, nature positive, net-zero future using science-based targets.
A global coalition that aims to amplify a credible business voice on nature calling for governments to adopt policies to reverse nature loss in this decade.
A plan created for the people, by the people of the UK – a vision for the future of nature, and the actions we must all take to protect and renew it.
A charity developing a nature skills platform with game-changing potential that can help anyone, anywhere, access the skills, networks and funds they need to restore their local environment, grow food and connect to the joy of learning from and for nature.
Welcome to our Library of Resources.
This is where we hope to sow the seeds of knowledge. Here we will share the books, writings, films, podcasts that inspire us to be the change;
to care for people and planet, and to leave the world better than we found it.
READ
READ
Braiding Sweetgrass... Robin Wall Kimmerer
Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants.
Small is Beautiful... E. F. Schumacher
A Study of Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of essays published in 1973 by German-born British economist.
How We Might Live... Suzanne Fagance Cooper
Exploring the lives and legacies of Jane and William Morris, finally giving Jane's work the attention it deserves and taking us inside two lives of unparalleled creative artistry.
The Good Ancestor... Roman Krznaric
With the message that there is still hope, this book explores six ways we can expand our time horizons to confront the great long-term challenges of our age.
Radical Love... Satish Kumar
Inspirational book of advice from environmental activist Satish Kumar, which helps us find ways to love ourselves, others, and all beings on planet Earth—even those we may find unlovable.
WILDING... Isabella Tree
Isabella Tree tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife.
SAND TALK... Tyson Yunkaporta
Through his Aboriginal perspective, Yunkaporta’s book teaches us how to use Indigenous wisdom to gain a better understanding of how the world works.
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible... Charles Eisenstein
A beacon of hope in the face of our current world crises, this uplifting book demonstrates how embracing our interconnectedness is key to world transformation and what we as individuals can do to make the world a better place.
HUMANKIND... Rutger Bregman
This ‘Hopeful History’ argues that people are decent at heart and proposes a new worldview based on the corollaries of this optimistic view of human beings.
Flourish: Design Paradigms For Our Planetary Emergency
Flourish: Design Paradigms For Our Planetary Emergency... Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlyn
A look at what it will take to restore balance to our world, repair past injustices, and support future generations' survival.
Leading from the Roots: Nature Inspired Leadership... Kathleen E. Allen
Leading from the Roots takes Nature as a source of inspiration to help organisations see a new way of leading and designing workplace structure.
Imaginal Cells: Visions of Transformation... Various Authors
A collection of essays that explore how a compassionate approach to business, finance, the environment and politics can transform our world.
Biomimicry in Business... Margo Farnsworth
How to use Nature’s strategies to solve business challenges and find a path to healthy profit while working in partnership, and even reciprocity, with the natural world.
Oneness vs The 1%... Kartikey Shiva and Vandana Shiva
Activist Vandana Shiva exposes the unaccountable actions of the ultra-rich and exposes the 1% 's model of philanthrocapitalism. A model which is deploying unaccountable money to bypass democratic structures, derail diversity, and impose totalitarianism.
Business Unusual... Nathalie Nahai
This book reveals the psychology behind how we feel about businesses, their communications and their leaders in a digital world.
Doughnut Economics... Kate Raworth
Exploring the idea of doughnut economy, based on the premise that humanity's 21st century challenge is to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet.
Net Positive...
How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take - Paul Polman
In this seminal book, the former Unilever CEO outlines how business can only profit in the modern age by aiming to fix global crises and give something back to society.
Regenerative Leadership... Laura Storm and Giles Hutchins
This book provides an exciting and comprehensive framework for building regenerative life-affirming businesses with tools and techniques for leaders to succeed and thrive in the 21st century.
ARTICLES
COP15 Global Biodiversity Framework
A new set of international goals to address the ongoing loss of terrestrial and marine biodiversity called the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), agreed to by 188 governments worldwide.
A Compass for a Just and Regenerative Business report
Forum for the Future
An outline of the business imperative to shape a just and regenerative future
Let's talk about 'regenerative business' not sustainability
World Economic Forum
An explainer of the difference between sustainability and the restoration and regeneration of natural resources and social systems
Regenerative Capitalism: How Universal Principles And Patterns Will Shape Our New Economy
John Fullerton
An understanding of what a theoretical framework for regenerative economies could look like, and what conditions and processes contribute to their long-term systemic health.
The Business of Wellbeing: A Guide to Alternatives to Business as Usual
Wellbeing Economy Alliance
A close look at the Wellbeing Economy, how can we put it into practice and the role of business in bringing it to life
Seven essential elements of action to profoundly rethink fashion and put the health and survival of our planet Earth before business interest and economic growth
Developing a Corporate Biodiversity Strategy: a primer for fashion
Drawing on a new approach called the Conservation Hierarchy, this paper lays out a simple process for fashion companies wishing to develop a robust corporate biodiversity strategy.
WATCH
A monthly book club by change agency Volans' that explores the exploding universe of books focused on creating positive exponential shifts helps business leaders open their minds to new possibilities.
Save Our Wild Isles Business Films
A discussion with leading business people about how the biodiversity crisis is bad for business and how, by taking action, businesses can help turn nature recovery into a crucial business opportunity.
Doing Little Things with Great Love
Satish Kumar & Daniel Wahl
A loving reminder that all of us can change the world, by carrying out small actions with great love, as tributaries to the larger river of our collective future life on Earth.
In Conversation: Kate Raworth and Janine Benyus
Doughnut economics creator Kate Raworth and Janine Benyus – leading biologist & biomimetic designer discuss how starting from the whole can allow us to build systems and structures that help us to thrive.
Design for Decomposition: Biomimicry Fireside Chat
Biomimicry Institute
A conversation about a leading project by the Biomimicry Institute to demonstrate scalable new pathways for tackling waste that embrace true decomposition in design to build healthy ecosystems.
LISTEN
A Fibershed podcast that stitches textile systems and traditions, economic philosophy, and climate science into a quilt of understanding, designed to transform our thinking and actions.
An anthology of the Anthropocene; focused on land-based protection, co-liberation and intersectional storytelling rooted in a paradigm shift away from human supremacy, endless growth and consumerism.
An award-winning podcast committed to positive ecological futures for the earth and its people, sharing the voices behind regenerative farming.
A podcast by The Woodland Presents CIC and Timber Strategies, that delves deep into the policy, ecology, economics, attitudes and perceptions that underpin current affairs, and explores meaningful interventions.
Intimate discussions with futurists about practical and transformative ideas to challenge convention to the roots of the old paradigm we have been used to.
A podcast with grass-roots leaders everywhere, changing the stories we live by and enabling the regeneration of life on this planet.
JOIN
The Better Business Act is a legislative proposal to transform the way we do business, so that every single company in the UK takes ownership of its social and environmental impact.
An open to join network for businesses of all sizes who believe that business has a major part to play in tackling the climate, ecological and social emergency.
A network of individuals working at all levels of the fashion industry raising awareness of the climate, ecological and social breakdown and empowering others to do the same.
Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action
An international industry initiative in which fashion and textile companies commit to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 and address their roles in climate change
A commitment open to brands and manufacturers from the fashion and textiles industry to end the sourcing of ancient and endangered forests in material supply chains.
A commitment open to brands and manufacturers to end the sourcing of ancient and endangered forests for wood pulp based fibres used in packaging materials for all industries globally.
A group of leading organisations working to enable companies and cities to play a vital role in creating an equitable, nature positive, net-zero future using science-based targets.
A global coalition that aims to amplify a credible business voice on nature calling for governments to adopt policies to reverse nature loss in this decade.
A plan created for the people, by the people of the UK – a vision for the future of nature, and the actions we must all take to protect and renew it.
A charity developing a nature skills platform with game-changing potential that can help anyone, anywhere, access the skills, networks and funds they need to restore their local environment, grow food and connect to the joy of learning from and for nature.