Nature Works Activating Regenerative Leadership Consciousness

By Marc Buckley on 26th June 2024

Following a horrific car crash that triggered an out-of-body experience, author Giles Hutchins‘ life and worldview took a radical new turn. At the time a senior strategist for corporate giants, like KPMG and Atos, today Giles writes about the myriad ways both nature — and our inner nature — are tools for shaping regenerative leadership.

We are nature, and nature is us.

Giles Hutchins

Hutchins joins me on the latest episode of Inside Ideas to talk more about his fascinating journey, his hopes for the next generation of leaders, and his latest book: ‘Nature Works: Activating Regenerative Leadership Consciousness‘.

“In Nature Works, it’s not just about nature, but the nature in us, our inner nature,” he said. “If we ignore the inner, then we’re still in a mechanistic mindset, and our work becomes limited because we’re not flowing with life. So we need to step into the river and truly work with inner and outer nature.”

His new book combines neuroscience, the latest research on consciousness and ancient wisdom, to promote an integrated model for living and leading that is resilient and regenerative.

Springwood Farm

Hutchins also tells me about his personal experiences of leaving corporate life and starting Springwood Farm, an international leadership centre near London, situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty. At Springwood he also shares this personal journey, explaining the resistance and doubt he faced from others.

Along with writing multiple books, and his work at Springwood Farm, Hutchins is also the chair of The Future Fit Leadership Academy, founder of Leadership Immersions, co-founder of Biomimicry for Creative Innovation and Regenerators, and host of his own podcast.

“Being in tune with nature, in love with nature,” Hutchins says. “This is still the foundation for regenerative leadership and for a truly regenerative way of living.”

Tune into the latest episode to discover ideas for living and leading a truly regenerative life.

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Save Our Soils Regenerative Farming

By Marc Buckley on 21st June 2024

“Farmers are the custodians of our world and future generations,” says the star of popular Disney+ documentary Farm Rebellion, Benedikt Bösel, on the latest episode of Inside Ideas.

Which makes sense — they are the stewards of our nourishment systems, the choices they make today have life and death consequences for the future of our planet.

“We have developed an agricultural system that is very, very good at producing masses at the cheapest possible price. But that came at the cost of soil health, biodiversity loss, and water depletion,” says Bösel.

This is systemic, this is ecological, this is social innovation.

Benedikt Bösel

On his Gut&Bösel farm near Berlin, the former investment banker has been busy redressing the balance. With the support of his fellow rebels, Bösel’s team — who founded the Finck Foundation in 2021, have taken 3000 hectares of sandy, dry German soils and transformed it into a thriving ecosystem, showing that regenerative farming practices can transform degraded soils to create resilient ecosystems.

Teamwork

A strong advocate for collaboration between farmers, scientists, and policymakers as a means to drive systemic change in the agricultural sector, Bösel also wants humanity to enjoy a more visceral relationship with our soils. Throughout his regenerative farming journey he has placed huge importance on this, inviting people along to the farm to see and better understand what they are doing.

“We need to touch people’s hearts,” he tells me. “The DNA of our farm has always been to invite people here and to hopefully touch their hearts, make them understand why we are doing what we’re doing. If people actually experience something emotionally and they touch it, they feel it, they smell it, that changes you, that sticks with you.”

With these actions Bösel, author of the bestseller Rebels of the Earth, is trying to help society recognise the value of agriculture beyond food production, in a bid to increase support for the transition to regenerative practices, as he pursues his mission to promote the need for systemic, ecological, and social innovation in agriculture.

Bösel also points to support received from organisations like Follow Food and the Schmidt Heine family in the growth of his farm, as the types of partnerships that are key to growing regenerative farming.

And for Bösel it’s very simple: “agriculture and farming have to be at the epicenter of coolness”. And you can collect some cool points by watching the show, where you’ll learn more about regenerative farming — find out why it’s not all bad news for cows — and discover the true value of agriculture.

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“Life doesn’t have to be a continuation of the despotic Anthropocene,” Dr Glenn A. Albrecht tells me on the latest episode of Inside Ideas. “We have an alternative — it’s called the Symbiocene”.

The Symbiocene, a term the Australian philosopher famously introduced to the world, is a future state where humans are re-integrated with the rest of nature. “Bringing our human life into harmony with all life at the micro to macro level is what the Symbiocene is trying to do,” he explains.

Albrecht is also known for creating the concept of solastalgia, the despair humans feel as a result of destructive environmental change. Having the vocabulary to translate our emotions like this is something Albrecht says is vital. In his 2019 book, Earth Emotions, he gives shape to the idea with hopeful vocabulary that people can use to reignite their love of life.

“The Symbiocene is a way of getting out of prison. We put ourselves in it using language, keep ourselves in it using language, and we can get out of it using language as well.” With the right language, he says, we can “actually imagine a much better future” and shift to a new era where homo sapiens, meaning: wise ape, can begin thriving by “living up to their names”.

“Humans are emotional beings so approaching some of these problems through the lens of the emotions, through the landscape of the emotions, could be more effective. So there’s a need for word creation, for concept creation, particularly in the domain of the human-nature relationship.”

For the last 20 years, Albrecht has been working in a domain he calls the psychoteratic: psycho, of the mind; teratic, of the earth. “But it is the symbiocene and positive earth emotions, negative earth emotions, that I keep working on,” he says. “Because that is the domain that lacks the adequate language for us to understand the predicament that we put ourselves in.”

By ‘ourselves’ he is talking specifically about the “part of humanity that has alienated itself from the rest of life”.

“I’m referring to those no longer seeing life as something they are connected to, or part of, but rather as something to get rid of so that we can keep bulldozing our humanity all the way through earth and then into outer space.”

A source of hope

An antidote to this, Albrecht says, is for everyone to look at everything in the Anthropocene and “think of its opposite”. Because that is how “you begin to get some idea of a future that is viable, worth living in, worth handing over to your children and your grandchildren — it is a source of hope.”

The solution to the Anthropocene then, is its exact opposite, the symbiotic economy, which he says is “resilient, technically; sustainable, technically; and it’s capable of being regenerated accurately.”

“Just about anything we can think of can be converted from petrochemical-based substances, which are highly polluting, that are carbon dioxide maximisers, to their opposites, which are entirely benign and have come from life, can be returned to life, without any so-called pollution.”

The building blocks of life

The Australian philosopher is currently working with architects and others on shaping the practical, physical landscape of the Symbiocene.

“Look at PLP architects in London. They’re in their science labs working on mycelium bricks, which is as light as a feather and strong as an ox. That’s going to be the building material of the future. We’re also seeing MycoWorks using mycelium-based bricks to build complete houses in places in Africa.

“I’ve seen so many examples even over the last year, particularly when I travelled to the Netherlands, where there are people promoting the idea of mycelium-based coffins, returning death to living systems. We’re also looking at algae and bacteria being used for the foundation of furniture.”

He adds: “So, fungi, bacteria, algae, the building blocks of life will become, once again, the building blocks of human life.”

And he says the Symbiocene is ‘not anti-growth’, rather it will be “one of the most rapid periods of change and growth in the history of humanity since the industrial revolution”.

“It has not only got cash value, it has infinite potential to be developed further. It will be the next revolution, but it won’t be industrial. This is an opportunity for tech heads, engineers, designers, architects. It’s also an opportunity for artists and for other creatives to get cracking on, to get us out of the misery of the Anthropocene and onto something to laugh at and enjoy again.”

The Symbiocene is an endlessly creative place, Albrecht adds and “it’s going to produce new stuff that we can’t even think about right now”. His new book, Symbiocene, due to be completed by the end of the year will be another chapter in this paradigm shift. For now though, listen to the podcast — and join us in a world where the despotic Anthropocene is no more.

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Europe’s transition to a circular economy took a giant leap forward this week after lawmakers approved new ecodesign legislation that will transform the way products are traded in the EU.

Circular products will become the rule rather than the exception, with industry now set on a path to ‘think circular from the very design conception of the products they plan to produce and sell in the EU’.

Following the European Council of the European Union’s decision Monday to grant final approval, the new rules will affect the majority of products starting 2026, with some exceptions including cars and defence related products.

Rules on the ‘presence of substances that inhibit circularity’ and on ‘product durability, reusability, upgradability and reparability’ are among those industry will have to comply with.

Digital Product Passport

The cornerstone of the European Commission’s plans for having more circular and environmentally sustainable products, the legislation introduces an innovative Digital Product Passport (DPP), a digital interface that will provide detailed information on each product, including its ingredients, manufacturing processes, certificates, and end-of-life options.

To explain the benefits of the DPP, Thomas Rödding, CEO of Narravero, a company whose technology will make it easier for industry to harness the potential of the new Digital Product Passport, joins me on the latest episode of Inside Ideas.

“The European idea of the DPP is to have one digital interface, one data hub that knows everything about a product,” explains Rödding. “And if you know everything about a product: its ingredients, the way it was made, every certificate that might be relevant, every substance or ingredient, as well as all the options for how to recycle it, or resell it, or refurbish it, then you have all the information available, and that’s opening the door into a world where it’s much easier to live a circular economy.”

Rödding says it will be possible to talk to products, to ask questions like: “can I eat that food? Can I resell it easily? Can I get a new battery for my ebike?” He also thinks this could be the iPhone moment for the circular economy

“There is a comparison to be made with the iPhone,” he said. “The DPP is one point of contact, one single point of data access, with all the information for the stakeholders, authorities, for the customers and the consumers. There’s a similarity, as it’s putting all the different aspects into one thing, which is what makes it so fascinating.”

Narravero will play a big part in this. The company uses NFC technology to make products talk. And Rödding says its innovative technologies are now ready to make the circular economy talk.

Trust

It is estimated that by 2030, around five trillion products annually will need a digital product passport. That is a lot of information to process but Rödding says the technology will be robust enough to cope.

“All the information will be fully traceable using deep technologies, so it won’t be a case of just saying it’s a good product,” he said. “Any information regarding environmental and social impacts will be verified, understood, checked — so it can be trusted.”

Is this the iPhone moment for the circular economy? Join me and Thomas on the podcast to unpack the technologies that look likely to bring the circular economy to life.

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This is how humanity moves to a sustainable new future

At COP28 in Dubai Tammy Michelle Scarlett captured the zeitgeist when she said that “as consciousness about caring for ourselves, each other and the planet, becomes more prevalent, there is an opportunity for humanity to drive change from the inside out.”

This growing sense of togetherness, of oneness, a fringe essence first felt in some of the social movements of the 1960s, has been steadily evolving, moving to the centre of our collective consciousness, returning humanity to the natural states that can sustain it — and all life on earth.

UNIFY

Tammy is dedicated to strengthening these connections, in her work as the executive director of UNIFY, a global nonprofit that promotes world peace through global synchronised meditations and action campaigns focused on moving humanity forward.

“There is something beneath the surface for humanity, that is also part of our shared experience of just being human at this time on the planet, that is calling for more, that’s hungry and thirsty for a little bit more,” Tammy told me, when I caught up with her again on the latest episode of Inside Ideas.

On the surface, we can all see the injustices and egregious behaviours laying waste to the world around us. Without new ways of working however, the subsurface unity of all things that David Foster Wallace spoke of — our intrinsic human connections, they will evaporate beneath concrete surfaces of our own making.

In what increasingly looks like a rediscovering of the essential harmony of this dynamic two-step, though, we are finding the natural rhythms that move us away from the precipice. But we must remember, this is an active pursuit, the practical steps are down to us — and my conversation with Tammy drills into these. We talk about the actions organisations should be prioritising, new models for collaboration, as well as the regenerative and abundant living systems humanity has a critical hand in fostering.

Impact portfolio

Tammy also speaks about scaling the practice of what is called: impact portfolio, targeted investments designed to deliver social and environmental profits, explaining to us the myriad benefits of this for organisations and individuals. She also gives us a sneak preview of her book: BIRTHRIGHT, dropping in spring 2025.

For all this, and a lot more — join us on the latest episode of Inside Ideas.

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This is how we build a better world

Kuntzelman’s life’s work, inextricably linked to the concept of the Holomovement, promotes a new way of thinking and being, inspired by the idea that the universe is an interconnected whole. The entrepreneur, writer, philanthropist, and activist for social transformation, says that in this, the work of physicist, David Bohm, and the intersection of science and spirituality, have provided great inspiration.

“So how do we break down those inner and physiological, emotional, spiritual boundaries and borders that we’ve built up,” he asks, “to come together in collaboration and say, you know, it’s not just Fritz or Capra’s theories or discussions or the Tao of physics, it’s not just David Bohm, or whoever, it’s all of us coming together to make all of those models work at once.”

What this coming together means, is explored in: The Holomovement: Embracing our Collective Purpose to Unite Humanity, a book edited by Kuntzelman, which offers a unifying worldview for conscious collaboration. A unifying worldwide, a coming together, where new common ground is found, where it is possible to create a more sustainable, harmonious future and “find a way out of the difficulties we’re in”. To achieve this, Kuntzelman says “we’re going to have to be more right-brained inclined, intuitive, multidisciplined”.

This is where the Holomovement is doing some of the heavy lifting — by creating a wave of collaboration and collective intelligence to build a better world. You can discover more about this movement, the exciting new world envisioned by Kuntzelman, and how to become a part of it, in this first episode of the brand new season of Inside Ideas.

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This is how humanity moves to a sustainable new future

At COP28 in Dubai Tammy Michelle Scarlett captured the zeitgeist when she said that “as consciousness about caring for ourselves, each other and the planet, becomes more prevalent, there is an opportunity for humanity to drive change from the inside out.”

This growing sense of togetherness, of oneness, a fringe essence first felt in some of the social movements of the 1960s, has been steadily evolving, moving to the centre of our collective consciousness, returning humanity to the natural states that can sustain it — and all life on earth.

UNIFY

Tammy is dedicated to strengthening these connections, in her work as the executive director of UNIFY, a global nonprofit that promotes world peace through global synchronised meditations and action campaigns focused on moving humanity forward.

“There is something beneath the surface for humanity, that is also part of our shared experience of just being human at this time on the planet, that is calling for more, that’s hungry and thirsty for a little bit more,” Tammy told me, when I caught up with her again on the latest episode of Inside Ideas.

On the surface, we can all see the injustices and egregious behaviours laying waste to the world around us. Without new ways of working however, the subsurface unity of all things that David Foster Wallace spoke of — our intrinsic human connections, they will evaporate beneath concrete surfaces of our own making.

In what increasingly looks like a rediscovering of the essential harmony of this dynamic two-step, though, we are finding the natural rhythms that move us away from the precipice. But we must remember, this is an active pursuit, the practical steps are down to us — and my conversation with Tammy drills into these. We talk about the actions organisations should be prioritising, new models for collaboration, as well as the regenerative and abundant living systems humanity has a critical hand in fostering.

Impact portfolio

Tammy also speaks about scaling the practice of what is called: impact portfolio, targeted investments designed to deliver social and environmental profits, explaining to us the myriad benefits of this for organisations and individuals. She also gives us a sneak preview of her book: BIRTHRIGHT, dropping in spring 2025.

For all this, and a lot more — join us on the latest episode of Inside Ideas.

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This is how we build a better world

Kuntzelman’s life’s work, inextricably linked to the concept of the Holomovement, promotes a new way of thinking and being, inspired by the idea that the universe is an interconnected whole. The entrepreneur, writer, philanthropist, and activist for social transformation, says that in this, the work of physicist, David Bohm, and the intersection of science and spirituality, have provided great inspiration.

“So how do we break down those inner and physiological, emotional, spiritual boundaries and borders that we’ve built up,” he asks, “to come together in collaboration and say, you know, it’s not just Fritz or Capra’s theories or discussions or the Tao of physics, it’s not just David Bohm, or whoever, it’s all of us coming together to make all of those models work at once.”

What this coming together means, is explored in: The Holomovement: Embracing our Collective Purpose to Unite Humanity, a book edited by Kuntzelman, which offers a unifying worldview for conscious collaboration. A unifying worldwide, a coming together, where new common ground is found, where it is possible to create a more sustainable, harmonious future and “find a way out of the difficulties we’re in”. To achieve this, Kuntzelman says “we’re going to have to be more right-brained inclined, intuitive, multidisciplined”.

This is where the Holomovement is doing some of the heavy lifting — by creating a wave of collaboration and collective intelligence to build a better world. You can discover more about this movement, the exciting new world envisioned by Kuntzelman, and how to become a part of it, in this first episode of the brand new season of Inside Ideas.

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Europe’s transition to a circular economy took a giant leap forward this week after lawmakers approved new ecodesign legislation that will transform the way products are traded in the EU.

Circular products will become the rule rather than the exception, with industry now set on a path to ‘think circular from the very design conception of the products they plan to produce and sell in the EU’.

Following the European Council of the European Union’s decision Monday to grant final approval, the new rules will affect the majority of products starting 2026, with some exceptions including cars and defence related products.

Rules on the ‘presence of substances that inhibit circularity’ and on ‘product durability, reusability, upgradability and reparability’ are among those industry will have to comply with.

Digital Product Passport

The cornerstone of the European Commission’s plans for having more circular and environmentally sustainable products, the legislation introduces an innovative Digital Product Passport (DPP), a digital interface that will provide detailed information on each product, including its ingredients, manufacturing processes, certificates, and end-of-life options.

To explain the benefits of the DPP, Thomas Rödding, CEO of Narravero, a company whose technology will make it easier for industry to harness the potential of the new Digital Product Passport, joins me on the latest episode of Inside Ideas.

“The European idea of the DPP is to have one digital interface, one data hub that knows everything about a product,” explains Rödding. “And if you know everything about a product: its ingredients, the way it was made, every certificate that might be relevant, every substance or ingredient, as well as all the options for how to recycle it, or resell it, or refurbish it, then you have all the information available, and that’s opening the door into a world where it’s much easier to live a circular economy.”

Rödding says it will be possible to talk to products, to ask questions like: “can I eat that food? Can I resell it easily? Can I get a new battery for my ebike?” He also thinks this could be the iPhone moment for the circular economy

“There is a comparison to be made with the iPhone,” he said. “The DPP is one point of contact, one single point of data access, with all the information for the stakeholders, authorities, for the customers and the consumers. There’s a similarity, as it’s putting all the different aspects into one thing, which is what makes it so fascinating.”

Narravero will play a big part in this. The company uses NFC technology to make products talk. And Rödding says its innovative technologies are now ready to make the circular economy talk.

Trust

It is estimated that by 2030, around five trillion products annually will need a digital product passport. That is a lot of information to process but Rödding says the technology will be robust enough to cope.

“All the information will be fully traceable using deep technologies, so it won’t be a case of just saying it’s a good product,” he said. “Any information regarding environmental and social impacts will be verified, understood, checked — so it can be trusted.”

Is this the iPhone moment for the circular economy? Join me and Thomas on the podcast to unpack the technologies that look likely to bring the circular economy to life.

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When talk on tv turns to the economy people quite sensibly look for the quickest escape route to keep their ears from getting toothache. That’s because commentators like to reach for the esoteric, the dystopian, the never ending set meal of tired old tropes and warnings that remind people they shouldn’t be thinking about economics in the first place.

So forget all that, let’s start with a clean slate, and let’s look at the economies you’re standing in right now.

“If you offer eggs to your neighbour when they come over and knock on the door, or you give a ride to a friend, that’s the sharing economy or the gift economy. You go into your public library that’s the sharing economy as well,” Della Duncan, co-teacher of the Economics Dimension course at Gaia Education, tells me on today’s episode of Inside Ideas. And it doesn’t end there.

I invite you to think of your day, and think of the ways that you participate in neoliberal capitalism, such as buying something on Amazon for example.

Della Duncan

“A tool library in your neighborhood or a worker cooperative store that would be the solidarity economy of the new economy. There’s the caring economy if you care for an elder or a child in your life.”

All “these different economies we participate in and co-create every day” Della says.

“When we speak about capitalism as all pervasive, we give it more power than we need to. So the invitation is how do we uplift the view, the understanding of these alternative economies and also make them more accessible for all of us to participate in them to lift them out of the global sea of capitalism and connect them.”

Host of the Upstream Podcast, Della is a Renegade Economist who supports individuals as a Right Livelihood Coach, helping transition businesses as a post-capitalist consultant. Challenging mainstream economic thinking on documentaries like The Green Transition: The Problem with Green Capitalism; and The Myth of Freedom Under Capitalism, Della shows us that by thinking like a renegade economist our behaviours can start to better match our values.

“The frame Renegade Economist is something that I heard Kate Rayworth, founder of Donut Economics, described as. I really appreciated that frame and said ‘I aspire to be a Renegade Economist too’. But what it means to me more generally is that when we go upstream from the challenges of our time — political, economic, social, ecological, I think there are some very real challenges related to our economic system particularly relating to assumptions underlying mainstream economic thinking as well as the practices, and operating values of our current dominant economic systems. So to be a renegade economist is to challenge those assumptions, to critique them, and to seek and uplift systemic alternatives.”

Della adds: “These alternative structures, we need to make them visible and to be more aware of how we’re participating in them so that the economy is not something abstract or outside of us but it’s actually something that we participate in and co-create every day.”

Catch my interview with Della now on Inside Ideas and let us help you find your inner renegade economist.

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