That's one thing in your daily life that doesn't really have to change all that drastically, but you can support a regenerative mission. Regenerative agriculture is an ecosystem that pulls carbon from the atmosphere back into our soil.It lends to better food, more sustainable food, and most importantly, it's the only system that can pull down carbon in time
It's a beautiful place to learn, especially if you're really interested in continuing your education. Regenerative farms are farms where animals graze, and plants are growing.
But re-wilding, the idea of bringing back species to those areas where they had gone missing became easily half of our work today. Regenerative agriculture-- as Doug always says, if you don't get agriculture right, you can kiss off the rest because agricultureis the greatest use of terrestrial earth.
- No, it's like the down escalator's a generator? - This regenerative braking makes escalators extremely power efficient, but more importantly, it makes them inherently safe. But there is a point where if you keep adding weight, then eventually the force becomes so strong that the motor can no longer resist it.
All right. So you got your hot pan. And regenerative to me is really sort of that next wave of a little bit further into what we need for the Earth and for our health.
It's beautiful. But I think, to me, I entered this topic because at the time, I was co-authoring a paper for a medical journal on stem cells and regenerative medicine. And it's the reason I studied genetics as well. It's because I thought, this is a material that it's an animal protein, and it can be used in the body
Sian Harding is emeritus professor at Imperial College London, where she has been the head of the cardiovascular division as well as Director of the British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine Center. Her work has focused on the myocardium and heart failure, especially beta-adrenergic mechanisms.
Now, if we're going to return our food system and our landscape policy to a more normal sustainable regenerative system I would suggest that it's going to require the same kind of innovation that Google enjoys today bringing innovation to the world. How does innovation happen?
to produce an electric current. This is called regenerative braking, and it's the same trick that electric vehicles use to recharge their batteries. In effect, the motor turns into a generator.
it, right? And so which of those is possible? I mean, clearly people have a lot of intuitions about that. If you ask standard people in regenerative medicine and molecular biology, they're going to say, "Well, that convincing thing is crazy. What we really should be doing is talking to the cells, or better yet, the molecular networks." And in fact, all the excitement of the biological sciences today are at single molecule approaches and big data and genomics and all of that. The assumption is that,
is what I think about cognition in cells and tissues, it means, for example, that I think we're going to be able to take those ideas and use them to produce new regenerative medicine that actually helps people in various ways, right? It's just an example. So if you think as a physicist you're going to have a complete understanding of what's going on from that
A good example I ask people is-- most homes in America cook rice at least once a week. There are amazing regenerative rice growers, Lundberg being one of the biggest. That's an easy swap, right?
All right. So you got your hot pan. You might have regenerative Lundberg rice in your local grocery store or you can order it online.
So whether that's my mom's smoky links that she buys in bulk at Costco still, I am looking for-- Little Fork is a great example. It's a regenerative farm. It's pasture-raised animals. It's a really healthy protein.
It's a beautiful place to learn, especially if you're really interested in continuing your education. It's 100% regenerative farm.
I went down to South America for a while, and I was learning there with some artisans in indigenous communities about how to be more regenerative in these ancient apparel arts. I was learning dyeing and weaving and beading, as well as plant medicine.
It's a chain reaction that generates chain reaction seeds. It's a self-regenerative emergent constraint, a synergistic coupling between two self-organization processes that prevent each other's degeneration.
anymore, right? It looks like friendship and love and psychoanalysis and all these other tools that we have. But here's what I want to do. I want to be very specific to my colleagues in regenerative medicine and everything. Just imagine if I, you know, if I went to a bioengineering department or a genetics department and I started talking about high-level, you know, cognition and psychoanalysis, right? They don't want to hear that. So I focus on the engineering approach...
Come on in. So "My Regenerative Kitchen" just came out about two weeks ago, my first cookbook. And really the entire mission is bringing regenerative practices into our homes. I get asked a lot, what is regenerative agriculture?
And I started going through it. It was all about thermal regenerative fuel cells, and my invention was not in there. So this guy was wrong.
So you say you got a small room to be-- Absolutely. And that is incentivizing those regenerative practices.
is constantly challenged. Well, I would say that one of the most exciting collaborative partnerships that we're involved with is the Peggy McGrath Rockefeller Foundation and the 2,000 acres of regenerative agriculture in the Hudson Valley. So with that influx of more funds, there'll be more opportunities to really innovate.
exists in nature can do. biodegrading uh uh renewable uh regen what did you say you perpetual yeah so it's like regenerative and these are great terms but they don't describe what sustainability is in fact most people have like a very limited understanding about what we're trying to achieve it's the economic social and environmental considerations of the things we do so
We have an experiment called PowerCells on a mission called EuCROPiS. EuCROPiS stands for Euglena Combined Regenerative Organic Food Production in Space. It's a very long acronym.
but we're looking forward to how do we keep the planet livable for homo sapiens for the next millennia. A doorway into standing technology and regenerative energy is maybe to dive into the metaphysics or esoteric practices. These have often been, in a span of many human traditions, a bridge to understanding this precious give of life and our Mother Gaia.
in fact the Wake Forest Institute of regenerative medicine in North Carolina is growing 22 types of human tissue in
And that's really the answer that the book is trying to provide are all different ways from-- you guys have a loamy and a mill to composting to eating plant based to sourcing regeneratively in your home. A good example I ask people is-- most homes in America cook rice at least once a week.
So that's the mission of the book and the mission of my company, Westbourne. So we create everyday foods regeneratively sourced with a carbon neutral supply chain meant to, again, just by living your lives, by cooking, by having fun, by hosting people, you can really support this big transition that's mission critical for the climate crisis.
All right. So you got your hot pan. Costco's been really vocal and very focused on regenerative brands and thinking more about making that the new mass, right?
And I started to apply a lot of the principles of regenerative agriculture to our personal back yard.
As an avid fan and supporter of the advancement of regenerative medicine in general, it was a coincidence that I had the pleasure
It's a beautiful place to learn, especially if you're really interested in continuing your education. The best way to raise animals and plants is in regenerative farms.
And he also holds the Canadian Research Chair in transplantation and regenerative medicine.
Tanya Tyler who runs the world's biggest regenerative medicine institute.
So always nice to be a guest. Come on in. So "My Regenerative Kitchen" just came out about two weeks ago, my first cookbook. And really the entire mission is bringing regenerative practices into our homes.
And really the entire mission is bringing regenerative practices into our homes. I get asked a lot, what is regenerative agriculture? Why does it matter?
All right. So you got your hot pan. It's not that every day has to be vegan and completely regenerative .
All right. So you got your hot pan. But my dream and our hope for the future of Westbourne is to make regenerative goods mass market.
And the health care buildings have not always been the most caring and regenerative spaces.
Former President of the European section of the International Society for Heart Research, and board member of the British Society of Gene and Cell Therapy. She was also special advisor to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee on Regenerative Medicine. Sian has been given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Association, and she will receive the Imperial College
That's why your hair falls out, for example. But, the heart has got so little regenerative power that just even knocking off a little bit of this with the chemotherapy, it will damage it.
It should be possible to target genes which are downregulating the brain's regenerative programs and thereby allow brain regeneration.
So you say you got a small room to be-- Absolutely. And again, we can incentivize a regenerative supply chain when we do invest in ethical companies.
The life instinct is the cyclical, regenerative , maintenance, care side of things.
people talk about circular economies, regenerative economies.
but actually have it there so that we can start sharing our findings and actually find other people. There's a lot of interesting work going on in California in regenerative agriculture. And we have the ability to actually do this research and not be constrained by the constant fundraising cycle.
It's going beyond that so that you've got some sort of regenerative capacity that you're providing planet Earth.
beneficial things that come from exercise and sport, they happen in the regenerative phases afterwards, the downtime when you lay down. And in work,
- Well- - In this context. - Yeah, the beginning of my work is very much in regenerative medicine, in bioengineering, things like that. So for those kinds of systems, the question is always, how do you get the system to do what you want it to do? So there are cells, there are molecular networks, there are materials, there are organs and tissues and synthetic
like psychedelics, that you would to a complex human mind? specific, empirical implications that are going to play out in engineering and regenerative medicine and so on. A technological approach to mind everywhere, this