Daisy World

Inspiration from people from around the world.

Inspiration from people from around the world.

Common Earth is highlighting examples of commitment to regeneration. We take inspiration from the Gaia model and Daisyworld, which assert that living organisms and their surroundings have evolved together as a single living system that affects the overall health of our planet.

Inspiration from people from around the world.
Why Daisies?

Why Daisies?

Daisies are often seen as a symbol of new beginnings, breakthroughs, and bright futures. In Celtic, Norse, and Roman mythology, daisies also represent harmony, balance, and transformation. We use the symbolism of the daisy to highlight important sites of individual and community-based care, working to enhance environmental sustainability through regeneration and rehabilitation.

DAISY STORIES

Inspiring Stories from Around the World

Jadav Payeng

Majuli Island – India
Southeast Asia

Jadav, a farmer and father of three, lives in the remote northeastern Indian river island Majuli.  It is the largest river island in the world and experiences massive erosion due to yearly flooding.  Since 1917 the rate of erosion and land loss has accelerated and there is an imminent …

Jia Haixia and Jia Wenqi

Yeli Village, China
East Asia

Jia Haixia and Jia Wenqi plant trees together in northeastern rural China in the village of Yeli. Haixia is the elder and was born blind in his left eye because of a cataract. Later, in 2000, he had a work-related accident in a factory and lost …

Hélio da Silva

São Paulo, Brazil
South America

Helio Da Silva is a retired business administrator. In his Sao Paulo neighborhood, there is a river where both sides of the riverbanks were degraded, full of garbage, and frequented …

A view from above of the Eden Project

The Eden Project

Cornwall – England
Western Europe

The Eden Project came out of the imagination of a British businessman Sir Timothy Smit. The idea was to transform an old clay pit in Cornwall that was no longer of economic use. After raising 80 million pounds, Smit assembled a team of people to build …

A group of women part of the conversation group Black Mambas.

The Black Mambas

Balule Nature Reserve – South Africa
Africa

The Black Mambas, founded in 2013, are an all-woman anti-poaching unit that successfully protects wildlife in Balule Wildlife Reserve in Kruger National Park of South Africa. Their mission is to make the park and its surroundings …

Ilac Diaz, of Litter of light

Illac Cruz

Pasay City – Phillippines
Southeast Asia

Liter of Light is a global, grassroots movement that uses inexpensive, readily available materials to provide high quality solar lighting to people with limited or no access to electricity.  
Liter of light started out after a typhoon hit the Philippines and wiped out …

Hugh Wilson of the Hineway Reserve

Hugh Wilson

Akaroa, New Zealand
Oceania

While working with a very small, protected part of the Banks Peninsula of New Zealand, a botanist named Hugh Wilson identified the potential for nature to reassert herself and to regenerate the native forest. The problem was he had no money. Luckily, he met a businessman who had established a …

The entrance for Abbey Gardens.

Abbey Gardens

Haliburton – Ontario – Canada
North America

Everything fell into place when John Patterson, a retired businessman, came up with the idea of bringing a local gravel pit back to life as a garden. He’d been to see…

Boat cleans a river by collecting plastic

The Ocean Clean Up

Rotterdam – The Netherlands
Europe

Every year millions of tons of plastic enter the oceans. Solving this problem requires both reducing the inflows and cleaning up the accumulated plastic in our oceans. The Ocean Cleanup Project aims to reduce the “legacy” plastic by 90% in our oceans. To accomplish this huge task, The Ocean Cleanup Project came up …

A Map of Sustainability

Like any other complex system, the planet is a self-regulating and goal-seeking system and balance is its default. The goal of this map is not only to identify sites of environmental sustainability, but also to provide inspiration for possible pathways towards a post-carbon society.

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