4. Shared Prosperity: Wealth is equitably (although not
necessarily equally) distributed in the context of an
expanded view of true wealth.
5. Real Economy Circularity: Ultimately solar powered, the
economy strives continually to minimize energy, material,
and resource throughput radically at all phases of the
production cycle. Products are remanufactured, recycled
and composted, with natural outputs safely composted
to the biological world, while minerals and human made
substances return to the industrial cycle.
6. “Edge Effect” Abundance: Creative, diverse collaborations
increase the possibility of value-adding wealth creation
through relationship, exchanges, and resiliency.
7. Resiliency: The whole system develops the long run ability
to adapt and learn from shocks; adaptability to change
is valued over current brittle concentrations of power and
hyper-efficiency.
8. Honors Place: A Regenerative Economy operates to
nurture healthy, stable communities and bioregions, both
real and virtual, in a connected mosaic of place-centered
economies.
manifesting in a multitude of scalable projects and enterprises on
the ground. These include agriculture that replenishes soil fertility,
the sharing economy, collaborative and cooperative ownership
structures, economic democracy, investments in renewable
energy and resilient communities and much more.
Early green shoots of Regenerative Capitalism are already
This transition will not be quick or easy. It may even seem like
Alternatives are emerging, as documented in Capital Institute’s
“Field Guide to Investing in a Regenerative Economy” and
elsewhere. They’re appearing at conferences on sustainable
banking, social finance, impact investing and B Corps, local living
economies, crowd-funding, and cooperatives, and initiatives
such as B Team and Breakthrough Capitalism. The task now
before countries, cities, corporations and communities is to turn
Regenerative Capitalism into large global enterprises and suffuse
its principles into the large state actors that collectively drive the
global economic system.
Real investment is the bridge to the econom