Cascading

🌀 In our second (and current) cycle, Cascading brings together 12+ years of experience of what has worked well. We took some time to renew offerings, experiences, and services, striving to bring more clarity to articulating our concepts and approach while making the journey for our partners and clients more enjoyable. What hasn’t changed, and in fact, has guided us throughout our renewal, is our north star of mobilizing businesses as a force for Life. How can your business be a force for Life? Read the full article on our Medium: https://lnkd.in/eXxxDqP7

🏔️ Looking Back at Cascading’s History 🏔️ Cascading has been going through a remarkable change. This called for a moment of reflection for how we got here and gratitude for those who transformed us along the way. Although we shifted some things around, Cascading’s core vision remains the same: mobilizing businesses as a force for Life. Reflecting back on the history of Cascading brings us back to its deep origins—the mountains of Sierra Madre Oriental that witnessed the rise and fall of different civilizations, and most recently, a growing city, where our founder Carolina Fdz Jansink grew up. Every business has a personal motivation, a reason to exist, and a story to tell. Ours is one of honoring source, adapting and learning from tribulations, and finding new spaces to fulfill our mission. 🌿 Read more in our Medium: https://lnkd.in/gW6M-Jt6 #honorsource #sierramadreoriental #mexico #livingbusiness #forceforLife #livingsystem #sustainablebusiness

We are so happy and excited for Biomimicry 3.8 to have produced this wonderful and much needed paper, called Nature Positive. 🌿 Compiled through collective learning and pooled from knowledge and experience from Project Positive, this paper offers a chance for all of us to learn from the experts and pioneers in the field of Biomimicry in evaluating and measuring our humanly solutions against Nature’s proven benchmarks. Congratulations! You can access the paper here: https://lnkd.in/gqVDXQPC Let us know what you think in the comments! #naturepositive #nature #projectpositive #biomimicry #livingsystems #systemsthinking #sustainabilitybenchmark #sustainability #regenerationbenchmark #biomimicry38

Last year, Carolina Fdz Jansink was so fortunate to have participated in Project Positive, an initiative launched by Biomimicry 3.8. The gathering took place in Montana, where alongside other Life-conducive minds and hearts, worked together to raise the bar on what acting sustainably means through Biomimicry and Positive Performance. ❣ No matter the setting, “when a city [or manufacturing site] is functionally indistinguishable from the #forest or wild lands next door, we’ve reached true #sustainability,” shares Janine Benyus, co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8. Discover the amazing business leaders and companies involved in this project. 📼 Watch a video here: https://lnkd.in/gV6PMujb 🔗 Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/ewCQMfxD #biomimicry #biomimicry38 #projectpositive #life #livingsystems #regenerativebusiness

🦋 What the Great Flight of the Monarch Inspired How fitting for our co-created NERD Jam sessions to highlight the majestic Monarch Butterfly, as the Monarch Butterfly makes an impressive 3000-mile (4828 km) migratory journey from Minnesota, where Lichen Labs LLC is located, to an area in the Sierra Madre mountains, west of Mexico City, where Nature Design Lab is located. 🏔 🔬 One of the NERD Jam sessions was aptly named “The Great Flight of the Monarch,” where we explored portions of the Monarch under an electron microscope. Biomimicry professionals, women in leadership positions, industrial designers, or architects—it didn’t matter what positions the group held, the discussions were also lively with lots of ideas and practical applications in human-used designs. One idea that sprang from the Monarch’s wings was to change the color of plastic bottles with texture creating “structural color” to make any color more recyclable. The illustration below is artist, Will Close’s, point of view of the path of discussions and visual harvest during our last NERD Jam session in June of 2022, “The Great Flight of the Monarch.” 🔗 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eYuaapyw 🔗 View the full Mural board of ideas generated from the workshop here: https://lnkd.in/ef2mt_rj Sue Okerstrom, Daniela Esponda, Carolina Fdz Jansink #microscopy #nature #electronmicroscopy #curiosity #innovation #workshop #livingsystems #naturaldesigns #monarchbutterfly #butterfly #naturebasedsolutions #naturebased

After careful consideration of Cascading's communication flows, we have decided to launch more updates and insights here on LinkedIn, as well as on Instagram and Medium. Follow and connect with us! Medium: https://lnkd.in/eXyBF5Xw Instagram: @cascading.co

💧 💧 A whole new 10-year cycle calls for a website redesign—and so much more. Our new website honors water’s Life-conducive flows, speaks louder to our purpose of enhancing business' Life-conducive Value, and introduces revamped services for business leaders. We are so excited to invite you to visit our new site!

“Holy cow!” 😲 “How does it do that?!” 😳 These were exclamations of curious participants of the NERD Jam session from the MINNESOTA MICROSCOPY SOCIETY (MMS) during the exploration of how the fishing #spider, genus #Dolomedes, lives near, dives in, and breathes in #water. 🕷 Take a look at the image below of the fishing spider’s legs. What does it inspire in you? “None had looked at nature in this way before, despite their knowledge of electron microscopy, [as these] instruments are not usually used with the arrangements presented in organic sample examination or directed in understanding the organism as a natural device.” The electron microscope offered a whole new way of viewing Life’s brilliant design of the fishing spider’s form, function, and #elegance. Inspired, the group brainstormed innovative design ideas from super-hydrophobic spider skin phone cases that would remain dry underwater to fang-inspired strong yet light-weight sharp and flexible cutting tools. #microscopy #nature #electronmicroscopy #curiosity #innovation #workshop #livingsystems #natureinspired #fishingspider #naturebased #ideation #biomimicry #industrialdesign Sue Okerstrom Lichen Labs LLC, Daniela Esponda, Carolina Fdz Jansink

When we love a place, we naturally want to nurture and protect it. Knowing the rivers that quench our thirst, the earth that grows our food, the forests that shade our heads make a place a home. Without the recognition of place, regeneration cannot begin. 🌲 🌲 In the middle of the Appalachian Piedmont forests, just 15 minutes from where Cascading’s founder Carolina Fdz Jansink lives, the 2024 Biophilic Leadership Summit chose the topic of #Biophilic #Placemaking. There, Carolina shared a workshop on engaging the private sector in Placemaking projects. Discussing why, when, and how to engage the private sector in projects of #rewilding and urban design brought us closer to the place we want to make better, to feel more like home. We really appreciated the emphasis of bringing more diverse private sector leaders into the collective consciousness of #biophilia in placemaking projects and living building designs. As part of the vast #ecosystem of any place, businesses can play a strong contributing role in catalyzing the project. 🦋 How could you bring biophilia into your business? The Biophilic Institute, Serenbe, Biophilic Cities, Melanie Copple #biophilicleadershipsummit #biophilicdesign #urbandesign #regenerative #regeneration #cooperation #privatesector #collectiveconsciousness

Great graphic by Government of Republic of the Philippines Environmental Management Bureau for us to appreciate wetlands, Earth's kidneys. We preserve Life and Living Systems not because of what they can do for us, but because how important they are to other Lives 🌿 💧