Category: regeneration

Hidden Gems Found

Like most people, I like finding great restaurants that serve what I want. I am a plant-based eater. Although I can generally get plant-based meals, meals prepared for plants rather than as a substitute are better.

The Happy Cow app has been fantastic. It has helped me find great restaurants anywhere I have been in the US. It is worth the $3.99 on the Apple App Store or Google Play. It is also available on a computer at https://www.happycow.net/. Another nice feature was the thank you letter I received after I wrote a review for Zizi’s Vegan at Berry Brook. This restaurant was one of the gems Happy Cow helped me find.

Gems Found

Recently I was in Charlotte, NC. I went to the Trader Joe’s and then was hungry for lunch. On my Happy Cow app, I found choices less than 1 mile from my location. I went to Zizi’s Vegan at Berry Brook. Although they also have a food truck, I visited their location in a health food store. It was hard to find because it was operated from a small kitchen inside a health food store.

The cook was very friendly and told me he developed the recipe for his burgers by trying it with his kids. The burgers were great, made with good things (Delish wholesome burger from lentils, wild rice, portobello, shiitake, beets, spinach & seasoning. Lettuce, tomato, onion, and veganaise. Served on an organic whole wheat bun). The burger was also quite filling. They were so good I got another for dinner and one for my daughter. She also thought it was great.

Other Gem

Another gem I found was when I was picking up my wife from the RDU airport. We wanted to stop at a close restaurant before driving home. Once again, I used my Happy Cow app, which showed me many good plant-based options. I generally also look at the ratings on the app, and they have proven to be very accurate. Again, the restaurant options were close by. We chose a highly-rated Thai restaurant, Champa. It also was great.

Happy Cow Practices Paneugenesis

The Happy Cow app has helped me generate comprehensive improvements by being able find a restaurant close to where I am, which means I don’t burn excess fossil fuels. The app enables me to make delicious, plant-based food choices which we all know improves personal and planetary health. I encourage you to use the Happy Cow app to help you engage in regenerative, net-positive, pervasive, reciprocal, selfish, selfless, synergistic interactions that benefit everyone and everything.

Be Well’r,
Craig Becker

Be selfish, selfless, & synergistic so everyone and everything benefits!

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More Good = Long Term Better

I was told to use KISS, Keep It Simple St%^$ when I was young. If we want to create better for everyone and everything, this provides good advice. What is simple = just Do Good!

  • Send a nice note to someone, even someone that is not your favorite
  • Do a random act of kindness
  • Work hard and do good work
  • Take a walk
  • Do a workout
  • Go swimming
  • Share an honest complement by finding someone doing good things
  • Reduce use of materials, (i.e. walk or bike instead of drive)
  • Read something thought provoking and/or inspiring
  • See our connections or similarities rather than differences
  • Set and accomplish a short term goal that moves you closer to your long term vision
  • Find and eat some fresh fruit and vegetables (pick fresh if you can)
  • Do backyard composting
  • Grow a garden in your yard for fresh m vegetables

Doing good things, crowds out bad things. (see Becoming our Best Is Best, Great New Years Message!, Be Led by Your Dreams, Good Begets Good and Bad Begets Bad: Green Grass Theory, More than a “Whack a Mole” Life, Questions Enlighten and many more).

Abhishek Jain makes this same point in his linked From ‘Less Bad’ to ‘More Good’ post.

Why More Good?

In simple terms, we should just add good because it gets to what we want faster. It also helps earn the good feelings generated. If we attempt to stop certain things, human nature automatically finds reasons to defend a previous action. As Wendy Wood, PhD documents in her research and outlines in her book, Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick, anything we do we defend and assume it must be helpful. If it wasn’t, why would we do it? I review more about her book at What We Do Without Thinking.

Additionally, simply stopping what we shouldn’t do only takes away harm without doing any action that could generate good outcomes. Doing good things enables good outcomes as it simultaneously crowds out bad actions. This is why I Practice Paneugenesis to generate comprehensive improvements by creating regenerative, net-positive, pervasive, reciprocal, selfish, selfless, synergistic interactions so everyone and everything benefits. Please share how you add more good!

Be Well’r,
Craig Becker

Be selfish, selfless, & synergistic so everyone and everything benefits!

#SelfishSelflessSynergy

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Regeneration is the Story

Damon Gameau is making a clear and beautiful picture of tomorrow. His story tells how to Practice Paneugenesis. As noted, in Matters Journal, Damon Gameau is Regenerating the World with Fact-Based Dreaming. In other words, his work focuses on how to create an Idealized Outcome for society and how we can generate comprehensive improvements by creating regenerative, net-positive, pervasive, reciprocal, selfish, selfless, and synergistic interactions so everyone benefits in his talks and movies.

I encourage you to watch his powerful TED Presentation, The Story that shapes your relationship with Nature. In this TED Talk he shares the story we need to follow so we can practice paneugenesis to generate comprehensive benefits.

Previously, as noted in Creating a Better Tomorrow post, I highlighted his excellent movie, 2040. I purchased it for $10 on YouTube and have watched it several times. He tells a great story about a future we could have.

After you watch 2040, please share your thoughts.

Damon Gameau has undoubtedly become one of the most beloved environmentalists in Australia. His infectious and empowering optimism and visionary creations of ‘fact-based dreaming’ have opened the world to a new era of solutions storytelling.

https://mattersjournal.com/stories/damon-gameau-regenerating-the-world-with-fact-based-dreaming

Be Well’r,
Craig Becker

Be selfish, selfless, & synergistic so everyone and everything benefits!

#SelfishSelflessSynergy

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Updated: We are Just Talking Apes

Jane Goodall explains in the Forward to Paul Hawken’s 2021 book, Regeneration, Homo Sapien means wise ape. She also questions that name since we are also destroying our planet. This may be because we sometimes forget we are animals that are part of the whole system. As Jane Benyus puts it, our actions should be such that it makes life more livable. For more information about her work and information about how to learn what we need to know, I recommend her book and website – Biomimicry. Previous related posts include this and this post.

In a related presentation, Carl Safina gave a fantastic TED talk, “What are animals thinking and feeling?“. In his presentation, he connected all life on planet Earth. He confirmed that other creatures have emotions: fish have personalities, eels have intelligence, whales have empathy, and sharks are rational. These cognitive faculties that some humans insist make us distinct from the animal kingdom are actually shared by all other creatures.

He explains this because the first neurons showed up in jellyfish and how we share the same brains as all living things. With this information, he asks, why should it be un-scientific to “anthropomorphize” conscious life to any animal except humans?

To bring our similarities to all other creatures, he explains how compassion and love are emotions we share with all living things. He ends by explaining how we have the power to make a difference. I encourage you to listen:

While he emphasizes the difference it makes for wildlife, we must remember how other lives affect our lives. For these reasons, I encourage all to Practice Paneugenesis by causing all good through the generation of comprehensive improvements by making pervasive, reciprocal, selfish, selfless, synergistic interactions so everyone and everything benefits. 

Humans are Nature – the Story

This intriguing TED Presentation, Retelling the Story of Humans and Nature, by Damon Gameau. He suggests why we have not followed the story Lovelock explains about our living earth. He also explains how and why we can be thought about as talking apes.

Please share how you improve parts that can help generate comprehensive improvements by creating net-positive, pervasive, reciprocal, selfish, selfless synergistic interactions so everyone and everything benefits, which means the whole system benefits. Thank you.

Be Well’r,
Craig Becker

Be selfish, selfless, & synergistic so everyone and everything benefits!

#SelfishSelflessSynergy

Please share your thoughts and questions below.
Contact me: BeWellr@gmail.com