Medard Gabel

Medard Gabel is the author of seven books, numerous articles and short films on global problems, resources and strategies, regeneration, the global energy situation, the global food situation, the U.S. food system, problem-solving/strategic planning, and multinational corporations.

He is the Executive Director of the non-profit research and development organization EarthGame, the producers of the Global Solutions Lab (now in its 20^th year) and the new AI-assisted platform NewWorld Game.

He worked directly with Buckminster Fuller for over a decade on the development of the World Game, plus a regenerative resource industry, and other projects. The AI-assisted strategic planning platform NewWorld Game is the ongoing culmination of his work with Fuller.

He has worked as a consultant and/or run workshops for the UN, U.S. Congress, the governments of the Netherlands, Tanzania and Spain, as well as World Bank, UNEP, GM, Motorola, IBM, Chase Manhattan Bank, AT&T, DuPont and other major multinational corporations.

Working with Fuller he learned the power and utility of whole systems thinking, global perspectives, spiritual growth, and a good sense of humor.

Medard Gabel in Kosmos

Design Science: Thinking Like a Planet

Design science is different from other problem-solving and planning methodologies in its comprehensive, anticipatory, inclusive, and transparent approaches to the development of solutions. It takes a ‘whole to particular’ approach that is both global in perspective and in its examination of options. It seeks to build capacity rather than merely solve problems and to develop solutions that are transformative rather than merely the reforming of already inadequate systems.

Published in Volume 25 Issue 1

Regenerative Development: Going Beyond Sustainability

Sustainable Development is a half-vast approach to vast problems. Its purpose, to make life on this planet sustainable, is a noble disguise for the maintenance of the status quo. When the status quo includes hundreds of millions of acres of degraded to destroyed farmland and leveled rainforest, depleted to exhausted fisheries and aquifers, toxic-choked streams, decreasing biodiversity, and a changing climate, sustainability is simply not acceptable.

Published in Fall | Winter 2015, Volume 15 Issue 2

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,