Many people around the world are suffering the consequences of what it means to live in an extractive, exploitative and polluting economic system, and are seeking to learn from other indigenous communities about what it takes for us to transition into a new way forward based on regeneration, resilience and restoration. If we can get to a place where we understand that first we must restore and regenerate the soul and the land, then we get to heal the planet, and when we heal the planet, we actually get to heal ourselves and each other. And that is part of the task that’s before us.
At the 37th Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures, Nwamaka Agbo moderated a discussion between Gopal Dayaneni, Karissa Lewis, and Robert HawkStorm Bergin—young people from diverse backgrounds who are doing work to reclaim ownership of community resources in order to build stronger local economies and ecologies.