Ralph Thurm
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Managing Director at r3.0, Owner at A|HEAD|ahead, Book Author of ‘The Corona Chronicles - Envisioning a New Normal for Regeneration & Thriving’, Author of ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’ Newsletter on Linkedin.
r3.0 2026 Conference (September 8-10). Find out what Melanie Goodchild, Ramson Karmushu, Benjamin Life and Ili Ingraham have to say about 'Bioregional Knowledge Commons', their importance and design. Exciting session! Get tickets at www.conference2026.r3-0.org. open.substack.com/pub/rthurm/p...
r3.0 2026 Conference (September 8-10) - Session 2 Overview - 'Bioregional Knowledge Commons'
What will the four provocateurs cover? Find out here!
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r3.0’s 2026 Conference, fully devoted to Bioregionalism, happening September 8-10. 2nd Panel Session (happening on September 9), focussing on Bioregional Knowledge Commons , with ELI INGRAHAM, Benjamin Life, Melanie Goodchild and Ramson Karmushu. Tickets and more at conference2026.r3-0.org. Join us!
Have you crossed the Awareness Bridge already or are you still in Mental Paralysis? open.substack.com/pub/rthurm/p...
A Sunday Thought (#197): ‘Mental Paralysis’ - Ignoring Gaia’s Last Warning
On Thursday I published my newest Lighthouse Keeper Newsletter, purposefully on World Overshoot Day, July 30, three days earlier than last year.
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The second r3.0 July Newsletter is out: Conference Session Three: Bioregional Relational Governance. Open Dialogues, and more. Please read and share widely: mailchi.mp/r3-0/2ndjuly...
Our fantastic panel of speakers for the ‘Relational Kinship’ Session of the r3.0 conference, online September 8-10. The conference is full devoted to bioregionalism. Get tickets at www.conference2026.r3-0.org and get a full overview of the agenda, speakers and confluences. Join us!
How kids learn about food … so much fun in Copenhagen open.substack.com/pub/rthurm/p...
A Sunday Thought (#195): ‘The Nordic Hotdog’ - And How Kids Learn about Food
I just can’t get these pictures from our current visit to Copenhagen out of my mind.
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The first of two r3.0 July Newsletters is out, featuring r3.0 Conference Session 2 on Bioregional Knowledge Commons, plus info on Confluences and Open Dialogs. Please read and share widely! mailchi.mp/r3-0/july202...
Time to start our information campaign on r3.0’s 13th International Online Conference, titled 'Bioregional Regeneration as Collapse Resilience' and concentrates on three important pillars: Biocultural Kinship, Knowledge Commons and Self-Governance. All you need to know: conference2026.r3-0.org.
My summer reading has arrived: Jeremy Lent’s ‘Ecocivilization’ and George Tsakraklides ‘The Biology of Collapse.’ Curious about so many things they bring up, and how it’ll resonate with me. Outcomes later!
What was your most intimate moment being nature? open.substack.com/pub/rthurm/p...
A Sunday Thought (#191): ‘Holy Water’ - The Magic Briksdaal Glacier Walk in Norway
I am still deeply under the influence of Thursday’s spiritual experience having walked up the track to the Briksdaal Glacier in Norway, part of a multi-week Scandinavia round trip that Alexandra and I...
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Why do so many sustainability professionals don’t even know the basics? open.substack.com/pub/rthurm/p...
A Sunday Thought (#189): ‚Brundtland‘ - Never heard of it?
For 12 years I am teaching ‚Authentic Sustainability (Measurement)‘ based on r3.0‘s story at the Erasmus University Impact Center.
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r3.0's United Nations Sustainable Development Performance Indicators (UNSDPI) Training is closing out its 4th Season at the end of this quarter. You can register to attend on 30 June - 1 July 2026. Join these two half-day sessions on authentic reporting. Register at www.r3-0.org/un-sdpi-trai...
Our r3.0 May Newsletter is out: Confluence Registrations, Seeds 2 Serializing, Open Dialogs, Conference Updates. Please share widely! mailchi.mp/r3-0/mau2026...
Musings on turning 60 … open.substack.com/pub/rthurm/p...
A Sunday Thought (#188): ‘Turning 60’ - What’s Left To Do
As I turn 60 in a couple of days, and celebrating this with good friends, some of them in my life for decades, I am asking myself what’s left for me to do in the last quarter of my life (recognizing t...
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Phenomenal Conversations #57 by David Pendle with me is out. May this edition inspire others to take a deep look into the mirror and find a personal pathway to bioregionalism, to overcome our current economic system logic. And maybe it can give strength to others! www.linkedin.com/posts/davepe...
Phenomenal Conversation #57 From Pioneering Sustainability to Bioregioning Nomad with Ralph Thurm | David Pendle
Just Published TODAY Phenomenal Conversation #57 From Pioneering Sustainability to Bioregioning Nomad with Ralph Thurm In this interview Ralph Thurm shares why r3.0 the organisation he cofounded is w...
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Have you heard of ‘chokepoints’ recently? Here’s probably why! open.substack.com/pub/rthurm/p...
A Sunday Thought (#187): ‘Chokepoints’ - New Vocabulary In A Collapsing World
Each epoche in human history has its very unique language.
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Here’s a second teaser of the ‘Phenomenal Conversations’ podcast that David Pendle invited me to recently. The full episode will air mid next week. www.linkedin.com/posts/davepe...
#collapseresilience #systemsthinking #ralfthurm #metacrisis #limitstogrowth #phenomenalconversations #groundupdevelopment #economicsystem | David Pendle
Is it too late for collapse avoidance? Conventional leadership often focuses on "avoiding" disaster, but certain experts suggest the window for avoidance closed decades ago. According to the Limits t...
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Focussing on ‘Affirmative Inquiry’ and ‘Lived Relationality’ as principles in Seeds 2 open.substack.com/pub/rthurm/p...
A Sunday Thought (#186): ‚Sprouting Seeds‘ - Defining The Intervention Space for Regeneration Through Re-Patterning
What would it take humanity to set necessary steps towards Collapse Resilience, as the predicament humanity has made for ourselves cannot be solved.
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Our April r3.0 Newsletter is out! Please read and share widely! Finally - Seeds Vol 2 🌱🌱 Released! - mailchi.mp/r3-0/april20...
Bioregional challenges through mass tourism…some more musings strolling through Budapest open.substack.com/pub/rthurm/p...
Bioregional Nomads on the Road (#20): ‘The Curse of Beauty’ - Strolling through Budapest
Budapest, the capital of Hungary, is a river-node city embedded in the Middle Danube watershed, functioning as a transition zone between upland forest catchments and lowland floodplain systems, situat...
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A trip that makes you think… open.substack.com/pub/rthurm/p...
A Sunday Thought (#185): ‘Hung(a)ry For Democracy’ - Too Late For Collapse Avoidance
Returning from the World Adaptation Forum in Budapest this week leaves me with another mourning episode in my journey towards collapse resilience.
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Ready for a deep discussion about the myth of sustainability and why collapse resilience thinking is necessary? www.linkedin.com/posts/ralpht...
Thanks to Omar Al Mamlouk for having me in his CORE Impact Podcast. We go deep into the ‘sustainability myth’ and get us mentally prepared for collapse resilience! Have a listen! | Ralph Thurm
Thanks to Omar Al Mamlouk for having me in his CORE Impact Podcast. We go deep into the ‘sustainability myth’ and get us mentally prepared for collapse resilience! Have a listen!
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Could we not all live like that? open.substack.com/pub/rthurm/p...
Bioregional Nomads on the Road (#18): ‘Radical Neighboring’ - The Way We (Almost) Used To Live In The Past And Still Could!
We don’t travel the whole time as Bioregional Nomads on the Road, but there’s always a next trip in the planning.
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A Sunday Thought (#183): ‚World Happiness Report Top 10‘ - But At What Environmental Cost?
Triggered by a short exchange with my friend and colleague Philippe Arnez this week I was looking at two major statistics: The World Happiness Report Ranking and the country’s respective Earth Overshoot Day.
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How Dutch are tulips really? Find out in edition 17 of Bioregional Nomads on the Road. open.substack.com/pub/rthurm/p...
Bioregional Nomads on the Road (#17): ‘Tulips’ - How Much More Dutch Can It Get?
If you are traveling through the Netherlands these days, you can hardly overlook the multicolored fields of tulips in all its variations.
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