How to Design Regenerative Systems

A Framework for Nested Complexity Across Ecology, Technology, and Capital

Some truths are not discovered — they are remembered. As the scaffolding of the old economy begins to tremble, we are being invited to recall a way of being that our ancestors never forgot:

• that wealth is not accumulation, but relationship;
• that the Earth is not property, but kin;
• and that the commons is not a relic, but a seed.

We are living through a turning, not just of systems, but of story. The story of separation — of humans from nature, wealth from care, intelligence from life — is losing its hold. And in its place, a new narrative is beginning to stir. One that sees the commons not as a resource to govern, but as a living relationship to tend — together.

What if the future is not something we predict, but something we co-design?

We are no longer in an era of simple solutions. The old playbooks — extract more, grow faster, dominate the market — have reached their ecological and moral limits. In their place, a new kind of system is emerging. One that understands that ecology, technology, and finance are not separate silos but interdependent threads of a…