Conference Agenda 2023

To heal the harms wrought by predominant economic systems, we must collectively embrace more just, life-affirming economic systems that have long thrived on the margins. This session, which supports r3.0’s development of the new Regenerative & Distributive Economy Blueprint, invites positive maverick economists to share their vibrant work on re-asserting economies

Marginalized communities excel at transforming adversity into resilient brilliance, in part due to honoring the human capacity to grieve loss and yet persist (exemplifying the “abundant edge effects” Principle of Regenerative Vitality). This session, inspired by explorations in r3.0’s Global Thresholds & Allocations Network work, invites members of these communities to share their understandings with our diverse Conference community.

The sun is setting on governance by institutions that entrench the status quo to defend the territories they “own,” and rising on governance in service of collectively stewarding the commons to cultivate abundant resource flows in perpetuity. This session continues to build on the activation of r3.0’s Funding Governance for Systemic Transformation Blueprint.

Social norms that reinforce antisocial outcomes (carbon hogging, extreme inequality, biodiversity destruction) and risk triggering catastrophic social & ecological tipping points, can be transformed by triggering beneficial tipping points into prosocial norms. Speakers in this session, which builds on r3.0’s thresholds & allocations work, explore the double-edged sword of tipping points.