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Book review : Regeneration by Paul Hawken

Edouard Stenger

This volume has become one of my favorites among the many I have read on climate and sustainability issues since I started back to 2004 (check the list there ). Bringing back Nature from the brink of collapse can be done by implementing regenerative solutions to our land and oceans. It can bounce back if given the opportunity.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It’s throwing $100 million toward biotech solutions for repurposing waste and improving plastics; regenerative agriculture in deforested zones; and building up markets for biological ingredients. Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. billion toward regenerative agriculture into 2025.

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How cracks emerged in Africa's plan to plant a wall of trees across the continent

Corporate Knights

By 2004, Smithsonian magazine reported that Niger’s Zinder region had 50 times more trees than it did in 1975. In Senegal, the government, via the Senegalese Agency for Reforestation, has partnered with local farmers practising regenerative agriculture.

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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

In “The 8 Th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness,” published in 2004, Covey identified the “industrial age paradigm” – in which controlling, extracting, and exchanging “things” is de rigueur – as the fundamental “problem.”

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Dignity First: Executive, Enterprise & Economic Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

“ The crises we face are not a science problem, they are a human problem.” – Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart, announcing Walmart’s commitment to become a “Regenerative Company” . Doug McMillon is right. In the new “leading with dignity” paradigm, Covey’s interdependence is both prescriptive and profound. Merriam-Webster Dictionary : Dignity: 1.