Regenerative Action is a process of intentionally repairing and rehabilitating the intrinsic functions and self-meaning of damaged ecosystems, with the goal of restoring the integrity of the ecological functionality and biodiversity of a region. The growing awareness of the impacts of human activity on the environment, including the effects of climate change, made possible the perception to address the urgent need to mitigate and adapt to these changes. In various countries and regions of the planet, efforts are being made to engage the problem of climate change by restoring biodiverse and native forests in regional and continental scale, as forests are one of the most effective ways to regulate our relationship with the atmosphere in a healthier way. To meet the demand for education and training in ecological restoration in proper scale, we present the comprehensive set of workshops embedded in the educational program Regenerative Actions in Climate Scale for individuals and groups who want to deepen their understanding and skillset of the subject to become leaders in the field.
The program covers a wide range of topics, including the principles of ecological restoration, deep ecological governance, ecosystem structure and function, biodiversity conservation, circular and solidarity ecological economy, participative methodologies, atmospheric circulation, flying rivers, biotic pumps and small water cycles, regional networks and climate change troubleshooting. Practitioners will also review fundamental concepts and best practices about plant and animal interactions, soil health and soil building, terra preta, water management, and community involvement in restoration projects. The program emphasizes a holistic approach to learning, incorporating integral visions of human beings in convergence with the evolving environment while exploring the psychology of learning and the art of teaching.
Participants in the program will be incentivized to to share their hands-on fieldwork and to do design-specific deployment, understanding key factors of pricing in ecological restoration projects and how to set them, as well as involving communities on evaluating and developing commerce strategies in short circuits and fair trade for agroecological local networks and non-timber products of their managed ecosystems, while forest management will be treated transversally as central in the majority of the workshops.
The topics and subtopics of the course include the following:
Phase I
Presentation
I-a-1 – Presentation
I-a-2 – Components (About the Division of the Course)
I-a-3 – Justifications and Results
Science and Method in Regenerative Actions
I-b-1 – Energy Flows
I-b-2 – Science and Method in Regenerative Actions
I-b-3 – Culture and Society in Regenerative Actions
I-b-4 – Pattern Learning and Traditional Cultures
Foundations of Ecosystems, Biomes and Climate Restoration
I-b-5 – Scale Dynamics in Time and Space
I-b-6 – Foundations on Ecosystems, Biomes and Climate Restoration
I-b-7 – Patterns in Design
I-b-8 – How do we learn to live in a transforming world from its roots?
Systemic Dynamics in Socioenvironments
I-c-1 – Systemic Dynamics in Socioenvironments
I-c-2 – Sociocultural Elements of Patterns
I-c-3 – The Multiple Dimensions of Agriculture as a Transformed Environment
Ecology of Communities and Ways of Living
I-c-4 – Creativity and Innovation in Socioenvironments
I-c-5 – Ecology of Communities and Ways of Living
I-c-6 – Soil Building as an Indispensable Regenerative Practice
I-c-7 – Ethical Foundations of Regeneration
Self-Organization Transformations
I-d-1 – Self-Organization Transformations
I-d-2 – Succession and Structure of Communities and Ecosystems
I-d-3 – Communication and Learning
Environmental History and Community Learning
I-d-4 – Environmental History and Community Learning
I-d-5 – Reflections and Practices on Learning Processes
I-d-6 – Life Beyond Measures: Thinking Like a Forest
I-d-7 – Ecology of Health
Becoming Aware of Human Action on the Environment
I-e-1 – Entropy, Continuity, Re-creation
I-e-2 – Becoming Aware of Human Action in the Environment
I-e-3 – Conscious Action in the Environment
Forests and Ways of Life
I-e-4 – Forests and Ways of Life
I-e-5 – Paleoclimatology of Eastern Sahara, Making the Rivers Great Again (Part 1)
I-e-6 – Debate
I-e-7 – Integral and Holistic Agriculture in Prospective
Phase II
Reflections and Practices about the Human Action on Environment
II-a-1 – How do Plants get Food?
II-a-2 – Soil and Pathways Through Time
II-a-3 – Reflections and Practices about the Human Action on Environment
II-a-4 – Reflective Education and Regenerative Actions
Endogenous and Ecophysiological Cycles in Regeneration
II-a-5 – Endogenous and Ecophysiological Cycles in Ecosystem Restoration
II-a-6 – Aquatic Systems
II-a-7 – Prospective Approach and Public Policies
Self-Organization and Perenization in Regenerative Actions
II-b-1 – Self-Organization and Perenization
II-b-2 – Integrated Cycles of Water and Carbon
II-b-3 – Succession and Structure in Living Systems
II-b-4 – The Agroforestry as a Practical Ecology
Interagency: Discourse and Practice of Reflective Action on Socioenvironments
II-b-5 – Interagency: Discourse and Practice of Reflective Action on Socio-environments
II-b-6 – Ethics, Principles, and Patterns in International Environmental Protocols
II-b-7 – Agroforests, Climate Changes and International Protocols
Restorative Cycles in Systemic Fertility
II-c-1 – Autopoiesis, Negentropy
II-c-2 – Restorative Cycles in Systemic Fertility
II-c-3 – An Ecology of Building Sustainable Landscapes
II-c-4 – The Humanity as a(nother) Living System
When Can a Landscape Exist? Past, Present, and Future of Regenerative Actions
II-c-5 – Patterns of Design
II-c-6 – When Can a Landscape Exist? Past, Present, and Future of Regenerative Actions
II-c-7 – Ecological Practice of Building Sustainable Landscapes
Ecological Conversion and Generative Themes in Education
II-d-1 – Bifurcation, Incursion and Gestation: foundations of diversity
II-d-2 – Ecological Conversion and Generative Themes in Education
II-d-3 – Economy and Justice in a Possible World
II-d-4 – Local Regenerative Actions
Climate, Forests, Soils, Landscapes, Rainmaking
II-d-5 – Prospection and Prospective Research
II-d-6 – Climate, Forests, Soils, Landscapes, Rainmaking
II-d-7 – Ecology of Health and its methods
Regenerative Actions as Constitutive Communitary Activity
II-e-1 – Convergence, Singularity and Attractors
II-e-2 – Diffuse Environmental Services and the communitary notion of “Public”
II-e-3 – Regenerative Actions as Constitutive Communitary Activity
II-e-4 – Regenerative Actions of the Surrounding
What Scale of Agriculture is Needed to Change micro, meso, and macroclimates?
II-e-5 – Biotic Pumps and Hydrological Cycles: building rains as a lifestyle
II-e-6 – What Scale of Agriculture is needed to change micro, meso, and macroclimates?
II-e-7 – Balance of Research Problem and the Results obtained in our journey
Phase III
Self-Perception in Ecological Relationships within the World: the consciousness of the limits in regenerative actions
III-a-1 – Self-Perception in Ecological Relationships within the World: the consciousness of the limits in regenerative actions
III-a-2 – Scientific Perspectives on Climate-Agriculture Interagency
III-a-3 – Agroforestry + Climate Change + Territorial Scale
III-a-4 – Agriculture and Climate: immense food production with nothing more than us
Community Involvement and Learning Ways of Living
III-a-5 – Community Involvement and Learning Ways of Living
III-a-6 – Design Exercise: live and let live (What more do we need for a Perfect Planet?)
III-a-7 – Comments on Methodology
Community Engagement Strategies
III-b-1 – Life, Dissipative Structures and Negentropy
III-b-2 – Community Engagement Strategies
III-b-3 – 4 Patterning Exercises
Can We Manage the Climate?
III-b-4 – Making the Rivers Great Again
III-b-5 – On the Reflexivity of the Question: what happens in agriculture if we change the climate? What happens in the climate if we change agriculture?
III-b-6 – Can We Manage the Climate?
III-b-7 – Ecology of Learning
Finding Ways to Live with the Other Beings
III-c-1 – Convection, Capillarity and Bifurcations for the Edging Effect
III-c-2 – The limitations and the theoretical-methodological boundaries of the definition of ‘Scale’
III-c-3 – Orientation of Scale associated with the notions of Local/Global Territory and Territoriality
III-c-4 – Finding Ways to Live with the Other Beings
Regenerative Actions of a Place and Its Surroundings: where is the cloud fence?
III-c-5 – Regenerative Actions of a Place and Its Surroundings: where is the cloud fence?
III-c-6 – Niches, Ecosystems, Landscapes, Microbasins, Regions, Biomes, Biosphere
III-c-7 – Integral Visions of Humans in Harmonic Convergence
Design Exercises of the Place and Surroundings
III-d-1 – Creating Life from Life, Because Life is Always There
III-d-2 – Design Exercises of the place and surroundings
III-d-3 – Design Exercises combining layers with distance, time, and scale
Hegemonic, Counter-Hegemonic, and Heterodox Discussions on the Causes of Climate Change
III-d-4 – Understanding the Designs
III-d-5 – ZCAS and Other Climatic Forcings in South America
III-d-6 – Hegemonic, Counter-Hegemonic, and Heterodox Discussions on the Causes of Climate Change
III-d-7 – Regenerative Actions
Fastly incrementing life in the subsoils: many ways to grow Terra Preta
III-e-1 – Structural Isolation and Individuality: Am I an Organism?
III-e-2 – Fastly incrementing life in the subsoils: many ways to grow Terra Preta
III-e-3 – Redesigning the Place and Surroundings, Again
Testing and Retesting the Effects of Design: Regenerative Actions in Continental Scale
III-e-4 – Holing the Bubble: no borders for nature today
III-e-5 – Testing and Retesting the Effects of Design: Regenerative Actions in Continental Scale
III-e-6 – How many hectares of forest do we need to feed the world?
III-e-7 – Life in the Interior