{
  "title": "Ecological Institutions",
  "subtitle": "Law, economics, and technology in a more-than-human world",
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    "Our greatest coordination challenges emerge from what we cannot help but hold in common. Climate, water, biodiversity, public information, and digital infrastructure all exceed the boundaries of any single owner or institution, yet the systems we use to govern them are often built around separation, enclosure, and extraction.",
    "Ecological Institutions begins from the premise that institutions are not neutral containers. They are assemblages of legal, economic, technical, and cultural code that shape what can be seen, valued, owned, governed, and acted upon. Extending this view into the more-than-human world, the book asks how rivers, forests, biomes, and other living systems might become consequential within institutions not only through advocacy, but through standing, value, data, and other forms of agency.",
    "The book brings Earth law and rights of nature into conversation with regenerative economics, digital public infrastructure, and ecological sensing. Across these domains, the same question recurs: how might institutions hold living and information systems in right relation, rather than treating either as passive resources to be extracted?",
    "The book moves through three parts: renewed mythologies for understanding interdependence; an Institutional Development Kit for composing rituals and protocols of collective life; and field narratives drawn from experiments in ecological governance across different places and communities. Together they form both a work of institutional theory and a practical design guide for new forms of coordination across human, ecological, and computational worlds.",
    "What might become possible if we stopped treating law, economics, technology, and ecology as separate domains, and began designing institutions from the relations that already bind them together?"
  ],
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      "label": "Landing Page",
      "href": "https://www.regen.foundation/#ecological-institutions-book",
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    {
      "label": "Short Documentary",
      "href": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CmSVGMBWEo",
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    },
    {
      "label": "Video Walkthrough",
      "href": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiM5ym9ANpU&t=179s",
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    },
    {
      "label": "Living Covenants",
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  "quote": {
    "text": "“This essential volume offers a profound upgrade to our social operating system by daring us to undual the false separation between our digital and living worlds, giving rivers, forests, and entire biomes the agency to participate directly in our protocols of civic care. Masterfully bridging ancient wisdom with the cyber commons of tomorrow, this book is a vital read for everyone committed to weaving our many networks into an infinite garden.”",
    "cite": "Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador and 1st Digital Minister"
  }
}