Regenerative Enterprise: Optimizing for Multi-capital Abundance is a 2013 🏷️#book by Ethan C. Roland and Gregory Landua arguing that enterprises can produce wealth while increasing the health of the communities and ecosystems they depend on.

The book is built on the 📝8 Forms of Capital, the authors' 2011 framework of social, material, financial, living, intellectual, experiential, spiritual, and cultural capital. Its thesis is that enterprises reach "📝multi-capital abundance by mimicking natural ecosystems and collaboratively forming multi-entity alliances," which the authors call regenerative enterprise ecologies. Through that lens, 📝degenerative systems spend living, cultural, and 📝spiritual capital to grow financial and material capital, and a merely sustainable system only maintains what is already depleted.

📝Regeneration is defined by three properties. Cultivation replaces extraction, adding to and removing capital from a system in ways that develop its health and resilience. 📝Growth is measured in 📝edges and connections, the quality and connectivity of capital, rather than in quantity. And a regenerative enterprise practices 📝harvesting the surplus a healthy system produces, never its core. From these follows the book's practical center: four 📝nurture capitals (social, cultural, spiritual, and living) that an enterprise must replenish in order to produce all eight, and a call to reverse the dominant flow that converts living capital into 📝financial capital.

The book grew out of the 📝Permaculture community, and its examples are drawn largely from 📝regenerative agriculture and forestry. It closes with three global imperatives (personal, trade, and capital) and a set of principles for regenerative enterprise.