I walked through #Florence once and the whole city felt like an argument I couldn't counter.

It's built from sustainable materials. It's still standing after 2,000 years. And it's one of the most beautiful places on earth. Nobody sacrificed comfort or beauty to build it. They just built with what the land could support and what time could hold.

Tom Chi — Google X founding member, inventor of 77 patents, and now a venture capitalist betting on a regenerative economy — had the same experience. It became the seed of his new book, #Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future.

We spent an hour talking about what that means in practice. A few things that stayed with me: 90% of the cost structure of physical businesses already aligns economic and ecological goals. Less material used = lower costs + less extraction. Less energy = lower processing costs + fewer emissions. The economy and the planet are already pointing the same direction. The 5% that isn't aligned is what the lobbyists fight about — which is why that's all we ever hear.

And then the phrase I can't shake: cognitive despoiling. We spent the 20th century strip mining the physical resources of the planet. Tom thinks we're spending the 21st century strip mining the cognitive resources of humanity — burning through attention, trust, and clear thinking the same way we burned through forests and rivers. The damage is invisible. But it compounds.

This is not a doom-and-gloom conversation. It's a design conversation. And the design problem, Tom argues, is solvable.

Episode is live. marcociappelli.com

— Marco

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-book-climate-capital-investing-tools-regenerative-marco-ciappelli-dnqnc

#AnAnalogBrainInADigitalAge #MarcoCiappelli #Podcast #ClimateCapital #TomChi #RegenerativeEconomy #ClimateTech #GoogleX #Sustainability #FourCs #DeepTech #NewBook

We’re building shared infrastructure for European permaculture:

– Teacher directory
– Course listing
– Project visibility
– Cross-border networking

Not another social feed.

Infrastructure.

If you’re teaching or running a regenerative project, join us. https://permaculture-network.eu/get-involved

Let’s build this together.

#permaculture #EuropeanCollaboration #RegenerativeEconomy #CommunityBuilding #DigitalSovereignty

Join us (Regenerative Currency Federation) for an online discussion of "Purpose" - the film https://bit.ly/purposethefilm on January 29th 2.30pm EST

#ReclaimTheEconomy #PostGrowth #WellbeingEconomy #DoughnutEconomics #CommunityEconomy #RegenerativeEconomy #LocalCurrency

The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.

This is fully open‑source, libre hardware including enterprise blueprints and open business models.

https://www.opensourceecology.org

#OpenSourceEcology #LibreHardware #OpenSourceHardware #SustainableTech #RegenerativeEconomy #OpenEnterprise

What if we decided to operate on an economic model with the highest good of each other and our planet as the guiding principle? Here’s a resource for doing it. https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/highest-good-economics/

#SustainableEconomics #RegenerativeEconomy #EthicalLiving #ForTheHighestGood #FutureOfEconomy #Sustainability #ConsciousLiving #CollectiveImpact #SocialGood #CommunityCentered #PlanetFirst #HolisticDevelopment #OpenSourceEconomy #ResourceBasedLiving #BetterWorld

Green AI Beyond Bullsh*t
tl;dr: Green AI can only matter if it moves beyond hype—toward truth, transparency, and regeneration within planetary limits.

Over the past months, hardly a day has passed without headlines about artificial intelligence: new models, astonishi
https://andrereichel.de/2025/10/07/green-ai-beyond-bullshit/
#ArtificialIntelligence #Energy #Environment #Green #Regeneration #RegenerativeEconomy #Talks #Technology #Digitalization #Regeneration #Sufficiency #Technology

Notes from AOM 2025
tl;dr: AOM 2025 brought planetary boundaries, postgrowth, and critique closer to the centre — but the structural tensions remain. Hopeful shifts, unfinished conversations.

2025 in Copenhagen marked my first in-person AOM since 201
https://andrereichel.de/2025/07/30/notes-from-aom-2025/
#Conferences #Degrowth #Europe #Postgrowth #Regeneration #RegenerativeEconomy #Sustainability #Systems #Talks #Conferences #Degrowth #Europe #Postgrowth #Sustainability #SystemTheory

💡 What does a Postgrowth City look like?

Last week, Architectenweb, Crimson Historians & Urbanists, BURA organized a symposium in Pakhuis de Zwijger in which city makers, designers and other professionals came together, all of whom are looking in their own way for ways to achieve more sustainable, social and fairer urban developments. It was a very successful afternoon, full of energy, reflection and hopeful perspectives for a truly better world.

Our perspective, presented by our Director Sophie Bloemen, is that we need a postgrowth city and the community economy - an economy that values people, the community and the planet at its core. She presented the Manifesto for a Caring Economy, emphasizing the need for non-extractive business models and a shift from measuring our economy through GDP towards well-being and overalll welfare.

In Amsterdam, we’re bringing this vision to life. Together with diverse partners, we’ve set up an Incubator for the Community Economy, MeentCoop, supporting initiatives like neighborhood cooperatives, urban agriculture, and food coops.

👉 Read more on the ten lessons of a Postgrowth City by Michiel van Raaij
https://lnkd.in/dNXSNkUR
👉 Would you like to view the symposium?
https://lnkd.in/deVtct9Y

#PostGrowth #SustainableCities #UrbanFuture #RegenerativeEconomy