Regenerative by Design: Building Regenerative Business Models

To avoid the catastrophic, cascading risks of crises such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and soil degradation, as well as global pandemics, inequality, and mass migration, it is paramount to fundamentally change most of the systems that we rely on today. Anything from our food, housing, and transport systems to our health, education, financial, and legal systems will sooner rather than later have to undergo unprecedented transformation to avoid societal and ecological collapse. Foundational to this superscale transformation is not only policy and regulatory innovation but also the courage and contribution of each and every one of us, including the institutions and businesses that we work for and buy from. This chapter explores how we can help to build a holistically regenerative economy through business model innovation with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).