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Another Fragile Future conversation with Indy Johar at Dark Matter Labs. This time, ahead of Future of Good's 2024 Social Finance Forum, Indy and I dive into the new philosophies of commerce, commodities and finance. cc Jayne Engle, Cedric Brown, Alexandre Lazarow, Sir Geoff Mulgan, Ilse Treurnicht, Giulio Quaggiotto, Milica Begovic, PhD, Rahul Chandran, Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, Alex S., Keith Ippel, Antaraa Vasudev, John Stokes, Adam Spence, Jillisa Brown, Matt Stanley, Liban Abokor, Kate Higgins, Soumya Guha, Shaun Hazeldine, Zayna Khayat, Ph.D., Nikolas Badminton, Manjula Lee, Raj Kumar, Charles Tsai, Zenia Tata, Anab Jain RDI, ★Michelle Baldwin, Phillip Haid, Rowan Conway, ★Michelle Baldwin, Derek Bardowell, Sandhya Nakhasi, Andy Haldane, Antonio Zappulla, OMRI, Ana Serrano, Chad Park + others #fragilefuture #commerce #finance #investing #impactfinance #impactinvesting #climate #philosophy #planet #socialjustice #socialimpact #leadership #corporatepurpose #corporatecitizenship #markets #futureofwork #future #systemschange #systemsthinking https://lnkd.in/eNQQQdDR

A 'storm' of European legislation and regulations is coming our way, aimed at making our society and the circular economy more sustainable. Much of this falls under the 'Green Deal' and Fit for 55. It impacts trade and other jurisdictions by influencing expectations for customers, consumers and supply chains. But how can we navigate and stay on top of these changes? To help us navigate this space, Circularity is currently exploring the use of CircuLaw which is introducing law as a service. It is primarily a knowledge platform with which we help policymakers, project leaders and buyers make more and better use of regulations to promote the circular economy. Legislation and regulations offer good opportunities to create effective circular policy. CircuLaw unlocks these complex laws and regulations so that policymakers can work with them. In this way we can promote the transition from the linear system to a circular system. And that step is essential to combat accelerated climate change, reduce pollution, preserve biodiversity and ensure that raw materials remain available. CircuLaw is an initiative of the Municipality of Amsterdam, Dark Matter Labs and Metabolic. See more here: https://www.circulaw.nl/ 

💪 The EU Nature Restoration Law presents an unprecedented chance to restore nature across Europe's landscapes. 🌿 Backed by 6000 scientists, it's hailed as the defining legislation of our time. 🚨But its fate hangs in the balance. WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT? - As much as 81 % of habitats at EU level are in poor condition - Europe is not prepared for climate change risks  - The cost of inaction outweighs the cost of restoration  - It will lead to further global inaction at COP16 THE BACKGROUND: 👏 Summer 2022: At first the law was applauded (Scientific, Business communities, NGOs & citizens) 🙅 Spring 2023: we started seeing negative responses, and often unfounded arguments against the law (eg. That the law would lead to job loss, or endanger food security) 😕 November 2023: a weakened compromise was approved by ambassadors of Member States (eg. Some restoration measures limited to 2000 Natura sites, Emergency Break in place) 👍 February 2024: the European Parliament approved the Nature Restoration Law, still marking a significant step towards the restoration of Europe's ecosystems. ✋ As people and businesses were celebrating, the process was derailed (having a negative impact on other environmental law (eg. common agriculture policies have been revised - leading to less control, less additionally and more concessions) 🚨 March 2024: the law was removed by the agenda for the final approval of the EU Council. This was due to a minority of EU member states that suddenly withdrew their support, preventing the adoption of legislation designed to reverse decades of ecosystem degradation and to halt biodiversity loss. 🇪🇺 17th of June 2024: EU Council should meet again for a final approval. IT’S NOT OVER YET! 💚 We have a legally binding birds and habitat director. 18% of EU lands and 9% of EU seas are part of this! 💚 The EU biodiversity strategy signed by all member state - providing guidance to large scale restoration. 💚 The Kunming-Montreal agreement will still help accelerate ambitious policies around the world and mobilise financing for biodiversity. 💚 💚 The Belgian presidency is still trying to mobilize a vote, and a few politicians e.g. in Austria, Belgium, and Poland can sway the majority to approve the law. 💚 💚 💚 And most importantly… TODAY Berlin & Dublin moved to unblock Nature Restoration Law! WHAT CAN YOU DO? 📖 Learn more :) 📣 Spread the word! ✍️ Sign petitions, eg https://shorturl.at/gvyJ4 Let's ensure this historic opportunity isn't missed! Dark Matter Labs Jonathan Lapalme Konstantina Koulouri Indy Johar Joost Beunderman Annette Dhami Terrapreta TreesAI Chloe Treger Gillian Dick Roni Bulent Ozel Rachna LEVEQUE Raj Kalia Nadina Galle Arianna Sparnacci Lorenza Agosti Lorenzo Fassi Axel Nilsson Alicia Carvajal Rowan jose Alfredo ramirez Matteo Remondini Lilli Graf Luca Budello Sebastian Klemm Gurden Batra Cleo Valentine Patrick Jean-Martel #restorenature  #eunrl  #forest  #restoration #naturalcapital

🌱 Girona se convierte en el primer municipio de España en llevar el "poscrecimiento" (nuevo término para "decrecimiento") a la práctica política 🌳 🔍 El convenio entre el Ajuntament de Girona , Research & Degrowth International y Dark Matter Labs busca traducir la teoría en políticas públicas concretas, con el objetivo de abordar los desafíos ambientales y sociales. Este laboratorio será un espacio de colaboración entre funcionarios municipales y destacados investigadores, liderado por el economista ecológico Giorgos Kallis. 🌍 Girona se convierte así en un referente en la exploración de políticas de poscrecimiento, desafiando el tabú y el miedo asociados al decrecimiento. Con una dotación pública de 10.000 euros al año, este proyecto aspira a expandirse a otras ciudades, formando una red de municipios poscrecentistas para enfrentar los desafíos del futuro. 💡 Este enfoque innovador busca redefinir las inversiones municipales hacia una lógica ambiental, anticipándose a los cambios necesarios para garantizar la sostenibilidad a largo plazo. Un paso clave en la búsqueda de alternativas al modelo económico actual. Claramente, debemos apostar por nuevos modelos económicos para poder hacer frente a los retos del presente y del futuro. #decrecimiento #poscrecimiento #sostenibilidad #innovación

Announcing the speakers for the Large Scale Housebuilding Session at Building with Communities Conference! https://bit.ly/BWCom2024 We’ll be joined by some fantastic experts from across sectors to explore the topic of CLT partnerships with developers to meet Section 106 affordable housing obligations, manage community places and create positive social impact within large scale developments. - Anna Bailey, Leader of the Council for East Cambridgeshire District Council - Daniel Hill, Dark Matter Labs - Robin Swanson, Chairman & Founder, KennettCLT - Vikki Williams, Digital Market Leader - Water, Arup This session will spotlight East Cambridgeshire’s 500 home Kennett Garden Village development, where Bellway Homes has partnered with Kennett CLT to deliver 60 of their affordable homes. It will also preview research led by Dark Matter Labs and the European Community Land Trust Network about how local authorities can embed CLTs as co-designers and land stewards With recent NPPF reforms introducing Community Exception Sites, this session will pair well with our Plenary session all about rewiring the planning system, our Urban Renewal session, and our Rural Housing Association Partnerships session. Find out more about the conference and register today! https://bit.ly/BWCom2024 #CommunityLedDevelopment #AffordableHousing #S106 #Section106 #BWCom24

Today marks episode #100 of the Boundaryless Conversations podcast, and there could not be a better episode to release than this one with my friend and timeless inspiration Indy Johar. Indy is such a prolific and generous thinker (and doer) that it's hard to cover new ground with him, but in this conversation, we succeeded in doing so. In this conversation, we discuss the critical questions involved in creating learning #organizations that can dance to the challenges of the 21st century. Indy speaks of overcoming a mindset of defensibility in favor of participatory accountability, of going beyond single-point optimizations and traditional #businessmodels toward new ways of partnering, beyond the rules. These days make me proud of these 100 episodes, and I want to thank all the incredible people who showed up and engaged in frank and deep conversations with us at Boundaryless.

It's increasingly clear that systemic constraints are going to require us to shift what good looks like and how we deliver good in our places. The traditional visions of our future cities and places has largely ignored systemic constraints (certainly in the short term). And how we operationalize a radically just future within those constraints. This collaboration between CIVIC SQUARE and Dark Matter Labs really sought to delve deep into embracing the scale of the challenge, embracing the scale of the constraints, to find a new space of justice. 3 Degree Neighbourhood: bit.ly/Neighbourhood3

Building new institutional economies to navigate our shared destinies is a critical challenge, and the lack of innovation in this space is becoming a systemic obstacle to the transformation necessary. The following piece seeks to synthesize some of our shared hypotheses and learnings emerging from our work on the ground, and also aims to contribute to the debate on designing Next Institutions, led by Sir Geoff Mulgan, Jessica Seddon Juha Leppänen, and The Institutional Architecture Lab (TIAL). Really welcome comments, reflections and iterations.

Join us for an enlightening conversation with Indy Johar, co-founder of Project00 (zero zero), and Dark Matter Labs, as well as a renowned architect. Indy is the kind of smart that is almost scary, but in the best possible way. Him and his colleagues have thought deeply about the world we live in and how we can update the structures in order to live aligned with the ecological world. Here's some topics explored in our chat: 👉 What if soil health was on the balance sheets of farms? 👉What if material things were judicial persons? 👉How do we update our worldviews and our relation to the world around us? 👉What is a philosopher-maker and why do we need to act in this way while we create the future? Would love to hear what the episode evokes in you. 🌱🌍

Life Ennobling Economics is increasingly becoming a bit of a South Star behind Dark Matter Labs - an underlying driving force, unfurling across all of our work and a structural exploration at our Next Economy Lab. It's a raw work-in-progress (and sits on the shoulders on many many great people to name but a few Denise Hearn, Farzana Khan, Kate Raworth Majid Iqbal Marc J Ventresca John Borrows, Ruth Wilson Gilmore) and we are still in the process of sense-making and grappling with many of the questions raised. However, we don’t want to do this journey alone, Interbecoming is a function of liminal spaces that we cannot experience in our own bubble - we would be grateful for any feedback or reflections LEE is designed with the Conversational Design approach, which we are currently developing at Dark Matter Labs https://lnkd.in/eXJV7WSz In the spirit of compound learning we are happy to share our findings, as well as learning together with many of you.. Available LEE issues: LEE-02-Respone: https://lnkd.in/eMrn-xh2 LEE-01-Introduction: https://lnkd.in/etdv35sE Emily Harris, FCA Dr. Martin Lorenz Nathalia Del Moral Fleury