SANE is developing a toolkit for pilot projects that demonstrate how a regenerative economy can ‘rewrite the essential conversation between humans and Earth.’ They are building upon the ‘Special Economic Zones’ framework to create a ‘Regenerative Economic Zone (REZ)’ template.
Steph’s forthcoming book, “Reimagining Civilization – A Roadmap to a SANE Future,” lays out existing economic policy that can enable the creation of regulatory sandboxes for regenerative economic activity in countries around the world. In these sandboxes, we can design incentives for regeneration and demonstrate an alternative development path that leads to thriving bioregions.
On this call, Stephan will share his perspective on what is required to truly address the metacrisis we are facing; what can be learned from the past fifty years of attempts at systemic change; and how SEZs may be the one doorway that could allow bioregional-scale solutions (in the form of REZs) to finally find footing. He will also explore what types of innovation he thinks REZs can spur and what tools will be needed in these economies of the future.
About Stephan Martineau:
Stephan’s lifelong passion and pursuit is to move beyond ideas, discussions, and theorizing to actual implementation of meta-systemic solutions to the meta-crisis, with a special focus on creating a new decentralized economy that incentivizes regeneration and bioregional resiliency. He is the manager and founder of SIFCo (the Slocan Integral Forestry Cooperative) — a leader in bioregionally based climate change adaptation, community resiliency, ecosystem-based management, and economic diversification. Stephan works as an meta-systemic consultant and project manager for societies, co-ops, businesses, co-housing projects and communities as they develop vision, inter- and intrapersonal discernment skills and practices, and seek to implement these in ways that are effective and resilient to change. He has worked in community development and ecosystem-based planning since 1993. For the past 30 years he has designed and led numerous transformative educational events internationally, specifically for ecologists, community builders, educators and parents, working in the field of human consciousness evolution, and specifically applying an Integral framework to environmental work, education, parenting, and mediation.
More about SANE here: https://sanefuture.io/
