Overview
The world faces accelerating climate and social challenges, demanding a new class of sustainability leaders, those ready not just to sustain, but to restore and renew the systems we all depend on. This pathway equips professionals, entrepreneurs, and systems thinkers with practical tools and strategic knowledge to design, scale, and advocate for regenerative solutions across agriculture, cities, and water-food systems.
Startups, in particular, have a unique opportunity to shape the future, and regeneration offers a powerful lens for green innovation, climate resilience, and growth. By embedding regenerative principles from day one, ventures can transform challenges like soil depletion, urban heat islands, and water scarcity into new products, services, and markets. Net-positive approaches not only attract impact investors and strengthen customer loyalty but also build long-term viability by replenishing natural and social equity rather than depleting it.
Whether you’re scaling a startup, guiding a team, or pivoting your professional impact, you’ll develop future-proof skills to address real-world challenges in food security, climate resilience, and urban regeneration.
Potential career paths include regenerative agriculture specialists, circular economy entrepreneurs, sustainable urban planners and founders developing climate-positive ventures.
The pathway is flexible and self-paced, but we recommend completing the courses in the suggested sequence to progressively build your understanding and capabilities. Begin with Explore How Farmers Produce Food Sustainably to build a systems-thinking foundation and understand how regenerative practices are applied in real-world farming. Then move to A Farmer’s Guide to Regenerative Agriculture to explore land-based regenerative practices. Transition into urban regeneration with ±15-Minute Cities: Putting People’s Needs First, followed by Urban Green Infrastructure: Introduction, and finally apply your learning through Street Experiments for Sustainable and Resilient Cities.
Key skills that you can develop through this pathway include:
- Apply systems thinking and strategic decision-making to address interconnections between food production, natural resources, and societal needs.
- Implement regenerative agriculture techniques to restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, and support climate-smart food production.
- Design inclusive, compact, and walkable urban environments that improve well-being and ensure equitable access to services.
- Develop climate-adaptive urban ecosystems using biodiversity integration, ecosystem services, and nature-based solutions.
- Lead participatory urban innovation through agile project management and tactical urbanism to prototype and scale regenerative interventions.
Courses (5)
The pathway includes the following five modules:
Course ･ Beginner ･ 8-20 hours ･ Free Explore How Farmers Produce Food Sustainably (Food)
Course ･ Beginner ･ 4 - 8 hours ･ Paid A Farmer’s Guide to Regenerative Agriculture (Food)
Course ･ Beginner ･ 0-4 hours ･ Free ±15-Minute Cities: Putting People's Needs First (Urban Mobility)
Course ･ Beginner ･ 0-4 hours ･ Free Urban Green Infrastructure: Introduction (Urban Mobility)
Course ･ Beginner ･ 8-20 hours ･ Free Street experiments for sustainable and resilient cities (Urban Mobility)
