Regenerative Capitalism ⋆ Savory Institute

Whitepaper

Regenerative Capitalism

How Universal Principles And Patterns Will Shape Our New Economy

By: John Fullerton, Capital Institute

Key Takeaways

This whitepaper by John Fullerton of the Capital Institute crafts a new narrative that may be applied to defuse today’s global threats, particularly those arising from outdated and at-times-misguided beliefs in business, finance, and economics.
His core idea is that the universal patterns and principles the cosmos uses to build stable, healthy, and sustainable systems throughout the real world can and must be used as a model for economic-system design.
He then distills his research into eight key, interconnected principles that underlie systemic health.

Summary

Since its founding in 2010, Capital Institute and its collaborative network have been on an evolutionary learning journey…searching for a path that will lead us beyond our current unsustainable economic system and the finance-dominated ideology that drives it.

What we discovered is a new way of thinking about economics and how we manage our free enterprise system, aligned with our scientific understanding of how the universe actually works, which turns out to be remarkably aligned with the many wisdom traditions, particularly indigenous, that have stood the test of time.

We call it Regenerative Economics.

Definition: Regenerative Economics is the application of nature’s laws and patterns of systemic health, self-organization, self-renewal, and regenerative vitality to socioeconomic systems.

On April 21, 2015, the Regenerative Capitalism framework and peer-reviewed white paper were launched at an event hosted by Yale University’s Center for Business & the Environment.