Earth Day 2040

It is April 22, 2040. Earth Day. And humanity is throwing a month-long global party!! Why?? Because WE DID IT. We did right by our Mother.
We cleaned up our mess, stopped fighting, and learned how to not just “get along”, but how to be a part of the family and make it all work.

The majority of humanity has pivoted into a state of balance and equity, with each other and the planet. Commerce has switched from being destructive to regenerative. Integrative innovation is now commonplace, bringing nature-like solutions for food, clothing, shelter, energy, transportation, connection and healing. Science and spirituality are now nearly indistinguishable. Wild nature preserves are ubiquitous, and cities are now so green and interwoven with nature that the air and noise pollution levels within human cities is only marginally above the levels in raw nature.

Soil health and microbiome have healed to 19th century levels.

Water tables have returned to 19th century levels.

Mass solutions have been launched to clean the water of the oceans and land, filtering out the toxic soup of chemicals, plastics, and neurotoxins.

The global climate is settling into a new balance now that the trend of heating has been reversed and glaciers have been growing for the last 5 years.

The ignorant and inhumane practices of externalities and othering has ceased, and humanity lives as a collective of creatives, farmers, innovators, scientists, artists, and yogis, like many tribes under one unified vision and value set. Our lives and actions led by the frequency of the feminine, the indigenous, the mystical, the scientific, unified as a species to live, love, create and serve in balance with all of life.

How did we get here?? Looking back, it was a close one… humanity nearly missed the window of opportunity. Wandering lost, digging ourselves deeper, our renegade thinkers, artists, and innovators gathered and catalyzed a shift at the 11th hour. Creating a frequency, a vision, a movement, locally, and then globally, like millions of spiders connecting their local webs into a global tapestry of integrated, regenerative ways of living.

The tide truly shifted in 2021 with the first pandemic, COVID-19. As with most large movements, it wasn’t until we looked back could see the magnitude of change, picking up speed each year, like a wave building mass and momentum as it moves towards the shore. The regenerative movement took root that year, and by 2025 had hit such a critical mass in the culture, narrative and lives of humanity, that there was no turning back – it was just speed that was of the essence.

At that point in time, humanity gathered. Governments united. Non-profits networked and integrated. And commerce changed forever. Capitalism evolved into Regeneratism. With the increase in transparency and accountability from blockchain and foundational global regulations, businesses shifted en-masse into balance. All businesses now were operating within the new global system of Regeneratism, where full transparency and accountability, equality and balance, prosperity and unity, are built in, like air and gravity are the environment we live in on planet Earth.

There were many businesses that fought against this paradigm shift, and millions more who didn’t understand of care… but there were some businesses that lead this movement.

They were the flag bearers, the innovators, the case studies… they were the courageous ones, and let us honor those organizations and the humans who led them and served with them. Those humans who went against the norms and low societal requirements, who broke out of the rate race and decided to be regenerative.

To hold the long-term perspective, where the right thing and the smart thing, are the same thing.

To consider the impact on seven generations in all they did.

To integrate all externalities and all external stakeholders into the vision of one human tribe, one village, one Earth.

These are the communities and individuals humanity honors as the catalysts for the new era of all life in balance. These people and these businesses were mavericks. They aligned themselves, and then aligned their impact.  They were the first regenerators.