Weaving the Web of Life

From Pachamama to Plum Village, How Ancient Paradigms of Relationship Can Renew Our Future

You can’t spreadsheet your way out of collapse.

Not even with the best metrics for soil health, biodiversity credits, or ESG ratings. Because this isn’t a technical problem — it’s a civilizational one. And civilizational problems require more than new tools. They require new stories, new relationships, and perhaps most importantly, a new way of being.

We’re not saying abandon science. We’re saying go deeper than science alone can reach.

The dominant paradigm — rooted in industrial modernity and modern Western worldview — taught us to measure, to categorize, to model the world in parts. It gave us tremendous breakthroughs: in health, technology, communication. But it also severed us from something vital: our relationship with the living systems that sustain us.

So now, here we are, in the middle of a polycrisis — climate instability, economic dislocation, mental health epidemics, ecological collapse — and the call to regenerate is growing louder. Regenerative design is emerging as the next evolution: a way to think and build in alignment with living systems.