This document summarizes a presentation on sustainability from a restorative to regenerative perspective. The presentation is supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) and the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020. It discusses definitions of sustainable, restorative, and regenerative approaches and poses questions about how technology can restore systems to a healthy state and enable them to remain healthy and evolve in a regenerative way.

1. COST is supported by
The EU Framework Programme
Horizon 2020
This presentation is based upon work from COST Action RESTORE CA16114, supported by COST (European
Cooperation in Science and Technology).
www.eurestore.eu
Martin Brown, Fairsnape.
Sustainability:
from Restorative to Regenerative
Brussels, 15 April 2019
Vice Chair
Working Group One Lead
fairsnape@gmail.com
@fairsnape

2. Rethinking Sustainability Towards a Regenerative Economy
SUSTAINABILITY: FROM RESTORATIVE TO REGENERATIVE
• WG1 Set the Scene for Following Working Groups
• Suggested Questions for WG4 Technology to Explore

3. VISIONS A LANGUAGE FOR SUSTAINABILITY:
that removes confusion
WELL BEING AND LOVE:
through awareness of the planet
A LIVING HERITAGE:
with sustainable function, materials and accessibility
ACTIVE BUILDINGS:
Restorative Buildings that do More Good
SUSTAINED GROWTH:
from regenerative circularity Source: WG1 Publication

4. DEFINITIONS
SUSTAINABLE:
Limiting the damage caused.
RESTORATIVE:
Restoring social & ecological systems to
a healthy state.
REGENERATIVE:
Enabling social & ecological systems to
remain healthy and to evolve.
Q: How can technology restore and then enable systems to remain healthy and to evolve?

5. B U S I N E S S A S U S U A L
S U S T A I N A B L E
R E G E N E R A T I V E
W E N O L O N G E R H A V E T H E
L U X U R Y O F B E I N G L E S S
B A D
R E D U C I N G I M P A C T
P O S I T I V E G O O D
R E S T O R A T I V EG R E E N
Source See FutuREstorative
Q: How can technology enable more positive goods and co-benefits

6. Q: How can technology enable us to design and build as part of nature, rather than apart from nature?

7. REMOVE FUGITIVE CARBON
INCREASE DURABLE CARBON
RESTORE LIVING CARBON
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REIMAGINE CARBON
Q: How can technology enable us to reimagine carbon and take us towards 1.5deg C

8. Q: How can technology enable progress to SDG success?

9. is about seeing the world in a different way — a shift to an ecological
world view in which nature is the model. The regenerative process that
defines thriving, living systems must define the economic system
itself.
The transition to a Regenerative Economy
Q: How can technology enable a transition to a Regenerative Economy?

10. Q: How can technology enable a regenerative economy, eg Circular Economy, Doughnut Economcs

11. COST is supported by
The EU Framework Programme
Horizon 2020
This presentation is based upon work from COST Action RESTORE CA16114, supported by COST (European
Cooperation in Science and Technology).
www.eurestore.eu
Martin Brown, Fairsnape.
Sustainability:
from Restorative to Regenerative
Brussels, 15 April 2019
Vice Chair
Working Group One Lead
fairsnape@gmail.com
@fairsnape