Executive Summary

• Requirements for
  • Regenerative Natural Systems
  • Regenerative Relationships
  • Regenerative Community
  • Regenerative Culture
• Putting it all into action

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Some Vision Elements

I’m working closely with a few of you behind the scenes to wrestle with ideas to develop the vision.  I’m reading many excellent books and articles.  I am doing what I do best which is to sift through a lot of information, enough so that a coherent distillation can be made.

This is still very early stage, and there are sure to be new additions, but I thought I might share some of the gleanings so far.  Consider this the roughest of rough sketches.

A Regenerative Community

The number one thing we hear when we ask what people want most, the answer is “more community.”  People are hungry for deeper connections, and greater social capital.  Of course they are.  Society today can be deeply isolating, superficial, and blandly unfulfilling.

What is that more perfect world we envision?  What would it look and feel like?

As many of you know that conversation begins with the idea of being in a deeper physical community of people living, working and playing in proximity to one another.  A place where trust is rapidly built and a strong, shared vision binds the group.

The idea to which I am now most keenly attracted, and which is drawing so much of my attention, concerns being in a community dedicated to regeneration.   For the land, for each of us as individuals, for each other, and especially for the all the generations to come.

Such an enterprise would cut against the grain of the current culture.  It will entail new risks in how we relate, and require a willingness to suspend disbelief over what’s possible.

Evie and I have been scouring the states of MA and NH for properties that might support such an undertaking, understanding that the place itself is important, but it is not the most important component.