The Wisdom of Pattern

The Wisdom of Pattern

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A family arrives on a piece of land with no one to tell them how to work it. They start moving across the landscape the best way they can think to—growing food here, moving animals there, tending to what seems to need tending. Some of what they do works...

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The Fragility Is the Feature

The Fragility Is the Feature

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Earlier this year, Goldman Sachs warned that disruptions at the Strait of Hormuz could spike global food prices by constraining the nitrogen fertilizer supply that industrial agriculture depends on to function. That warning is now reality. On February 28, the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran. Iran retaliated...

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Regeneration Is the Default

Regeneration Is the Default

2 min read

There is a quiet arrogance embedded in the phrase "regenerative agriculture." It implies that regeneration is something we do—a practice we perform, an outcome we engineer. But regeneration is not a human achievement. Regeneration is what living systems do when we stop preventing it. A grassland is...

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What Bitcoin and Healthy Land Have in Common

What Bitcoin and Healthy Land Have in Common

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At first glance, placing Bitcoin into the treasuries of regenerative agriculture hubs seems like an unlikely pairing. One is a digital monetary network. The other is dirt — or more precisely, the living systems within dirt that make food, water, and breathable air possible. But spend time with both, and a...

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Why Annual Grants Are the Wrong Tool for Ecosystem Restoration

Why Annual Grants Are the Wrong Tool for Ecosystem Restoration

3 min read

There is a mismatch at the heart of environmental philanthropy that almost no one talks about. The organizations doing the most important land restoration work in the world — the ones rebuilding soil, re-hydrating watersheds, returning grasslands to life — operate on timescales measured in decades. The funding model that supports them...

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The Folly of Capturing Complexity

The Folly of Capturing Complexity

10 min read

When we layer control systems over complex ones — in agriculture, in economics, in governance — we create the illusion of order while the suppressed complexity accumulates beneath. Captured systems always, eventually, break free.

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