Saturday, September 13, 2025

The Nature-Positive Movement

This looks like a great book: Becoming Nature Positive: Transitioning to a Safe and Just Future and here's the review in Nature: How to build nature back better — read this manual

The idea is that it is insufficient to just reduce environmental harm or become sustainable, but rather to regenerate nature in an active way = become nature-positive. This would be the opposite to the standare greenwashing that we see all over.

Here's an interesting angle mentioned in the review:
  • Purpose-led businesses (e.g. Patagonia, etc.) can pursue ambitious goals & lead by example.
  • Smaller companies can be agile and influence their local communities.
  • Large companies have a) the resources and b) the scale throughout their entire supply that even small improvements can have a large aggregate impact.
Related: Rengerative Agriculture. I'm not a farmer, but these all seems like no-brainers: plant cover crops, rotating crops, reduc tilling, and integrate trees all to a) prevent soil erosion and b) improve the soil. Read more about here: A revolution is sweeping Europe’s farms: can it save agriculture?

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