We speak with biologist, whole-systems designer, and author Daniel Christian Wahl, whose book Designing Regenerative Cultures has inspired changemakers and communities worldwide.

Together they explore how regeneration moves beyond sustainability — not as a brand or technique, but as life’s innate process of creating the conditions for more life.
Daniel reflects on emergence and complexity, the deep intelligence of living systems, and the portal of place through which we remember our belonging to Earth and to one another.

Topics include:

The difference between sustainability and regeneration

Salutogenic design and bioregional thinking

The intimacy of community and place as biological needs

Circle work as an ancient human technology

The shadows of techno-solutionism and AI’s disconnection from natural intelligence

Re-imagining education as community and cultural transmission

Daniel reminds us that regeneration begins not in the lab but in the compost — in the humility of returning to place, to story, and to the living web that sustains us all.

Voices of Emergence is a podcast about inner transformation and systemic regeneration, hosted by Alex de Carvalho and Rudy de Waele.

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