New Additions to Our EfS Reading List

Recommended Reading: Connected to Place by Matt Daggar

We recommend keeping an eye out for Connected to Place: Regenerating Nature, Communities and Local Economies through Systems Change, a new book by Matt Daggar coming in November 2025. The book offers a hopeful, systems-based vision for how communities can regenerate by re-anchoring themselves in place — socially, ecologically, and economically.

In her review, Darcy Hitchcock writes: “Connected to Place provides a blueprint for how we move toward a restorative society … by dismantling corporate interests that keep us stuck in the old, extractive one.”
(From Darcy Hitchcock’s full review on her website.)

We are sharing this title because we believe it is an essential, timely read for anyone interested in regeneration and community-driven systems change.

Nora Bateson: “Beneath biodiversity loss lies a more profound question of identity.” Photographer: Gabriela Hengeveld

Stories from Nora Bateson — “How Our Ways of Knowing Shape Our Collective Future”

In this piece, Nora Bateson, calls for a more relational, context-rich “warm data” approach to achieve social and ecological regeneration and sustainability. She explores how our dominant ways of knowing — currently shaped by reductionism for many of us — limit our ability to respond to ecological and social crises.

“If you want to change the food system, you can’t only change the food system. You have to address culture, intergenerational relationships, transportation, work, even what it means to be alive.

(From Nora Bateson’s Interview with Nadine Maarhuis on the Re-Generation website).