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,...

Pooven Moodley is a Be The Earth Fellow, international human rights lawyer and social justice activist from South Africa. When I was first connected with the Be The Earth Foundation, I pondered on the question ‘What is it like to Be The Earth?’ I share here a few reflections as my journey continues to unfold and my understanding about the connection of the elements. I will choose a point in time to start this reflection. Last Friday the Constitutional Court of South Africa (the highest...