By Jennifer Astone and Renata Minerbo As featured in Alliance Magazine, 28 August 2026 The question of how capital is stewarded is increasingly central to philanthropy’s relevance and legitimacy. At a time of social-ecological collapse and declining trust in institutions, the sector can no longer afford to focus solely on how much it gives while remaining silent about how its endowment operates in the world. Preserving wealth through investments that contribute to the harms philanthropy...

Gathering is the oldest technology we have — and the one a fractured world has most forgotten. Last week, on the blessed land known as 42 Acres, we gathered 100 community members for our UK Festival. After five years, we’ve stopped treating it as an event: it is a rehearsal. For four days, the community lives as if the regenerative economy were already here. Sharing freely, relating and listening deeply, dreaming and unlearning, morally imagining, earth dancing, garden grazing, flow funding,...

Dear friends, collaborators & co-creators of regenerative futures, Reflecting on 2025, we are filled with deep gratitude. Gratitude for the journey, for the communities that walk with us, and for the living Earth that continually teaches, challenges, and inspires us. Be The Earth is in her 6th cycle around the sun, and as a learning and experimental organisation has continued to deepen its regenerative practices towards a more eco-centric economy. While 2024 focused on governance, structures,...