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Colleagues Justin Adams, Alice Leguay and Monty Bryant , have published a groundbreaking report: Redesigning Finance in Service of Life.
The core idea is straightforward: Finance is a human construct, made of rules, instruments and stories about what we value and who gets to decide. What has been designed can be redesigned.
The practices and examples described in this paper, and the patterns we see forming, have been developed over many years by pioneers of regenerative finance. The principles beneath them are older still, carried by many Indigenous peoples and spiritual traditions that never forgot that our lives and economies are deeply entwined with the living world.
The aim is to help make this emerging pattern visible to a wider audience, especially those working in and around mainstream sustainability, finance, philanthropy and public
policy who feel the strain of the current economic system, but are not yet sure where else to stand.
The paper looks at pioneers already doing exactly that, and at the connective work their approach needs in order to grow.
