RECOMMENDED READING FOR REGENERATORS 

These books are some recommended places to start but by no means does it capture all the amazing books in the regenerative field.

 

  • Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows

  • The Web of Life, Fritjof Capra

  • The Systems View of Life, Fritjof Capra

  • Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Gregory Bateson

  • Smaller Arcs of Larger Circles, Nora Bateson

Thinking in Systems

Regenerative Leadership, Business & Culture

  • Regenerative Leadership - the DNA of life-affirming 21st century organizations, Giles Hutchins & Laura Storm

  • Regenerative Development and Design: A Framework for Evolving Sustainability, Pamela Mang & Ben Haggard

  • Companies that Mimic Life, Jay Bragdon

  • Future Fit, Giles Hutchins

  • Leading by Nature, Giles Hutchins

  • Regenerative Business, Carol Sanford

  • Designing Regenerative Cultures, Daniel Christian Wahl

  • The Living Organisation, Norman Wolfe

  • The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience, Toby Hemenway 

  • The Age of Thriveability, Michelle Holliday

Regenerative Economics

Visions & Scenarios

  • How soon is now? From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation, Daniel Pinchbeck

  • The Breakthrough Challenge, Jochen Zeitz & John Elkington

  • Project Drawdown, Paul Hawkins

  • Regeneration - ending the climate crisis in one generation, Pawl Hawken

  • Utopia for Realists - and how we get there, Rutger Bregman

  • Sandtalk, Tyson Yunkaporta

Biomimicry, Bio-inspired innovation, & The Circular Economy

  • Biomimicry: Innovation inspired by nature, Janine Benyus

  • Teeming, Tamsin Wooly-Barker

  • Natural Intelligence, Leen Gorissen

  • Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things, Michael Braungart & William McDonough

  • The Circular Economy: A Wealth of Flows, Ken Webster & Ellen McArthur 

  • Waste to Wealth: The Circular Economy Advantage, Peter Lacy & Jakob Rutqvist

The Wonders of Nature & The Logic of Life

 

  • Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, Florence Williams

  • Ecotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, Martin Jordan

  • The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science, Andrea Wulf

  • The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, Peter Wohlleben 

  • The Web of Meaning, Jeremey Lent

  • A Wild Love for the World, Joanna Macy

  • Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake

  • Microcosmos, Lynn Margulis & Dorian Sagan

New Paradigm Organisational & Leadership Development

  • Presence, Peter Senge, et al

  • Still Moving, Deborah Rowland

  • The New Leadership Paradigm: Richard Barrett

  • Theory U – Otto Scharmer

  • The Necessary Revolution, Peter Senge, et al

  • Reinventing Organizations, Frederic Laloux

  • Flourishing Enterprise, Chris Laszlo, et al

  • Synchronicity, Joseph Jawarski

  • Shakti Leadership: Embracing the Feminine and Masculine Future of Business, Ray Sisodia & Nilima Bhat

  • The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future, John Gerzema & Michael D'Antonio

Socio-economic, Cultural and Human Development

  • More Human, Steve Hilton

  • The Zero Marginal Cost Economy, Jeremy Rifkin

  • Leading from the Emerging Future, Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer

  • On Dialogue, David Bohm

Zeitgeist Paradigm Shift

  • Stealing Fire, Steven Kotler & Jamie Wheal

  • Dispelling Wetiko, Paul Levy

  • The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abram

  • The Illusion of Separation, Giles Hutchins

  • The Fall, Steve Taylor

  • Spontaneous Evolution, Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman

 

Personal Development

  • A Hidden Wholeness, Parker J Palmer

  • Touching Enlightenment, Reginald Ray

  • The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell

  • Sky Above Earth Below, John P Milton

  • Insight Dialogue, Gregory Kramer

  • The Map of Consciousness, David Hawkins