Pre-reading
Recommended readings from convening participants:
Books
The Spell of the Sensuous, by David Abram, 1997
Matter Matters, by Karen Barad, 2025
Combining, by Nora Bateson, 2023
Small Arcs of Larger Circles, by Nora Bateson, 2016
Emergent Strategy, by Adrienne Maree Brown, 2017
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision, by Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luis, 2014
Generation Restoration: How to Fix Our Relationship Crisis with Mother Nature by Tim Christophersen, 2025
On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us, by Partha Dasgupta, 2021
The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review, by Partha Dasgupta, 2025
A Barrister for the Earth, by Monica Feria-Tinta, 2026
Being a Beast, by Charles Foster, 2016
Natural Intelligence, by Leen Gorissen, 2020
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, by Donna J. Haraway, 2016
Leading by Nature: The Process of Becoming a Regenerative Leader, by Giles Hutchins, 2019
Out of Control, by Kevin Kelly, 1992
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2015
A Sand Country Almanac, by Aldo Leopold, 1949
Nature That Makes Us Human: Why We Keep Destroying Nature & How We Can Stop Doing So, by Michel Loreau, 2023
Is a River Alive?, by Robert MacFarlane, 2025
World as Lover, World as Self, by Joanna Macy, 1991
The Master and His Emissary, by Iain McGilchrist, 2019
Feral, by George Monbiot, 2013
Rekindling Life, by Baptiste Morizot, 2022
Ecology, Community and Lifestyle, by Arne Næss, 1990
You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World, by Karen O'Brien, 2021
Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood, by Samuel Machado and Cynthia Sousa Machado with Steven M. Wise (graphic novel), 2023
Hospicing Modernity, by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, 2022
The Nature Delusion: Why We Can’t Fix the World Without Fixing Ourselves, by Tom Oliver, 2026
The Self Delusion: The Surprising Science of Our Connection to Each Other and the Natural World, by Tom Oliver, 2021
Playground, by Richard Powers, 2022
The Overstory, by Richard Powers, 2018
Nature's Boardroom, by Simeon Rose, 2026
The Case for Nature, by Siddarth Shrikanth, 2023
After Exploitation: How We Can Build Flourishing Relationships with the Earth (Forthcoming Book), by Kocku von Stuckrad
Good Nature, by Kathy Willis, 2024
Articles
“I’m worried there’s too much of me,” says a birch: inside the interspecies council giving nature a voice, by Patrick Barkham, 2026 (Link)
Relational representation: Speaking with and not about Nature, by Laia Cano-Pecharroman and Erin O'Donnell, 2024 (Link)
Don’t ask what nature can do for you . . . Measuring and ranking countries’ efforts to protect animal and plant life will incentivise us to achieve a better future, Pedro Conceição, 2025 (Link)
Governance in complexity - Sustainability governance under highly uncertain and complex conditions, European Environment Agency, 2024 (Link)
Institutionalising Multispecies Justice, by Celermajer, Danielle, Anthony Burke, Stefanie Fishel, Erin Fitz-Henry, Nicole Rogers, David Schlosberg, and Christine J. Winte, 2025. (Link)
Reimagining Nature Finance, Circular Bioeconomy Alliance, 2025 (PDF)
ISSC, Club of Rome, 2022 (Link)
A System Change Compass: Implementing the European Green Deal in a Time of Recovery, Club of Rome, 2020 (Link)
What is Your Endgame, By Alice Gugelev & Andrew Stern, 2015 (Link)
Sow the Future, by Jacob Harold, 2026 (Link to unpublished essay - please don’t distribute further)
Subduing the Earth: Genesis 1, Early Modern Science, and the Exploitation of Nature, Peter Harrison, 1999 (PDF)
More-Than-Human, Sea-Facing, Eco-Social Change-Making: Advice from the Bauhaus of the Seas Sails project, by Ann Light, 2026 (Link).
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System, by Donella Meadows, 1999 (Link)
Nature Guardian Case Study, National Infrastructure Commission Wales, 2026 (Link)
Fractal Approaches to Scaling Transformations to Sustainability, by O'Brien et al., 2023, Ambio 52, 1448–1461 (Link)
Thinking With, Not Just About, Nature: Reimagining the Business–Nature Relationship by Rajat Panwar, 2026 (Link)
Nature Needs a Seat at the Table in the New Multilateralism, by Hugo Slim, Geneva Policy Outlook, 2025 (Link)
Introducing "Mitwelt" Ethics, by Kocku von Stuckrad, 2024 (Link)
Change Comes from the Arts, by Kocku von Stuckrad, 2023 (Link)
On Environmental Grief, by Kocku von Stuckrad, 2022 (Link)
Anthropocentric bias in visioning and the multispecies alternative, Philip Tovey, 2025 (Link)
UNDP Nature Pledge, UNDP, 2024 (Link)
The Climate Crisis Is a Child Rights Crisis, UNICEF, 2021 (Link)
Financing Nature: A Practitioner’s Guide to Results Metrics Selection, by Gregory Watson, Maria Netto, and others, Inter-American Development Bank 2025 (Link)
The Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and What it Means for Business, World Economic Forum, 2022 (Link)
Seizing Business Opportunities in China’s Transition Towards a Nature-positive Economy, World Economic Forum, 2022 (Link)
Can we build a people and nature-positive future with systematic land use?, Chunquan Zhu, Scott Vaughan, and Zhang Huiyong, 2023 (Link)
Websites
Grounded Imaginaries, a project by the Sydney Environment Institute
More Than Human Sandbox - take a look at some of the learning sessions
Nature on the Board, by Faith In Nature and Lawyers for Nature
The Nature of Trust: Nature-inspired solutions for trust-building and social change
The Planetary Compendium: Case Studies on Planetary Governance
World Benchmarking Alliance - 2026 Benchmark Hub and Corporate Accountability Reports
Podcasts
Emergence Magazine’s Podcast (Link)
Journey to Regeneration Podcast, “Tim Christophersen on Restoring Our Relationship with Nature,” 2026 (Link)
Videos
An Ecology of Mind, 2010 (Film Trailer)
Becoming the Change by Ben Okri, 2020 (Video)
Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth 2017 (Video)
This page will be continually updated as we receive more recommendations.
