The Regeneration Handbook

This is a handbook for millions of us who have not given up on restoring health, sanity, vitality, and a higher moral purpose to our world - even with the dangerous head winds. It is a glossary of relevant ideas for regeneration activists. It is a compendium of projects that have worked. Don provides an analysis of where the movements for regeneration are, and what next steps can be. He is the kind of leader we need. 

- Vicki Robin, author, Your Money or Your Life and Blessing the Hands that Feed Us, and host, What Could Possibly Go Right?

Born from his years of experience in numerous and different roles, synthesized from his clarity of where we are, and offered from a compassionate and wise heart, Don has written a true field guide for stepping forward to serve this time. Let us use this very practical guide and see what's possible, embodying V¡clav Havel's definition of hope: "Not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something is worth doing no matter how it turns out." 

- Dr. Margaret Wheatley, author, Restoring Sanity and So Far from Home

If you want to build a future that extends beyond the polycrisis currently gripping humanity, then regeneration should be your key search word. And your search lands here. This is the book to inform your personal and communitarian efforts as humans cease being fossil fools and transition into wise Earth stewards. 

- Richard Heinberg, author, Power: Limits and Prospects for Humans Survival and Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute

Weaving together personal transformation, community organizing, and new economic thinking, this handbook is chock full of insights from Don Hall's lifetime commitment to the great work of our time - healing the collateral damage of economic growth and globalization. 

- Woody Tasch, founder, Slow Money Institute and beetcoin.org

Full of keen analysis and deep feeling, The Regeneration Handbook is an important reflection on our predicament as a species, and both the challenges and opportunities our movements face in transforming global human society. If we are to have any hope, it requires being real about what we're dealing with. Don Hall has brought us both. 

- Sky Blue, former executive director and board member, Foundation for Intentional Community

Many things about our future are murky - but one thing is clear, and that is that a rapidly changing planet is going to demand some rapid changes from all of us, in our communities and in our own selves. This book is a darned good place to start thinking through those transitions. 

- Bill McKibben, author, The End of Nature