Elke keer zijn we weer erg blij om te ontdekken dat  er buiten Nederland ook veel gekanteld wordt. Zo zijn we al een paar jaar connected met het Capital Institute in New York. Een mooie zoektocht van John Fullerton die vanuit zijn functie als managing director bij JPMorgan een carrière switch heeft gemaakt naar een werkomgeving die gebaseerd is op andere waarden dan financiële winst.

Hij heeft  het Capital Institute opgericht, een onafhankelijke denktank in 2010.

TELLING A NEW STORY

Despite its remarkable achievements during the 20th century, the economic system of the past cannot continue into the future without a fundamental transformation. The science is irrefutable. The exponential growth of compound investment returns and, by extension, the exponential growth of the economy’s material throughput demanded by the financial system, has positioned our global economy on a collision course with the finite physical boundaries of the biosphere. At the same time, this relentless and narrow pursuit of exponential growth of returns on invested capital, without reference to universally acknowledged moral and ethical values, is contributing to an ever-widening and destabilizing wealth gap, and security crises around the globe.

Since its founding, Capital Institute has emerged as a provocative new voice grounded in a deep understanding of mainstream finance. We are a sought-after and trusted New Economy resource, committed equally to groundbreaking thought leadership, deep analysis of successful and transformative Regenerative Economy models, and the collaborative sharing of knowledge with partners and an expanding community around the world.

We believe our finance-driven economic system is in urgent need of a new story, with a new roadmap. This new story must be aligned with the laws (not theories) of natural systems and our current scientific understanding of how the world works, which is remarkably aligned with the compassion and mindfulness embodied in all wisdom traditions.

Capital Institute is working to tell this new story and to construct this new roadmap. We are diagnosing the financial system from within. Together we are redefining wealth and reimagining finance in service of the emergence of an ecologically and socially regenerative economy that promotes equitable development and shared well-being while respecting vital ecosystem function.

Since its founding in 2010, Capital Institute has been seeking, along with a generous collaborative network of like-minded thought leaders and practitioners, to develop a framework that defines the Regenerative Economy we see emerging all around us. During the years we have been searching for that “source code,” the Field Guide has contributed vital insights from the real world of regenerative practice exemplified by our storytelling partners. 

In April 2015, Capital Institute released Regenerative Capitalism: How Universal Principles and Patterns Will Shape Our New Economy.  The paper delineates eight principles as inseparable facets of a regenerative whole.  Nonetheless, we find that certain of those principles tend to dominate the narrative as each Field Guide story unfolds.  

To demonstrate the linkage between our theoretical work and practice in the field, we invite you to take a tour of our 8 Regenerative Economy Principles at the links to the right.  On those pages you will find a description of each principle and also where we see it “showing up” in our Field Guide partner’s work.  

It is our hope that once you have taken this tour you will come to a holistic understanding of what we mean by a Regenerative Economy.

 

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