Case Studies and Projects
Like the water lilies at Temagami, scaling happens though networks sharing, reflecting, and adapting information to their context.
The Islander Way — Flinders Island, Tasmania
A multi-year community-led regenerative tourism living lab on Flinders Island. The project asked: how might tourism contribute to a flourishing community, place, and environment? The result was a regenerative hosting framework adopted by the local council.
Gulf Savannah — Remote Queensland
Working with operators and communities in another of Australia's most remote and ecologically distinctive landscapes to tell their stories of floods, economic and social resilience through genuine connection to community and Country.
Local 2030 Islands Network — Global Scaling
A global network scaling regenerative thinking across island communities — celebrating island knowledge systems, Indigenous wisdom, and islands as leaders of genuinely different development models. Hawaii became the first jurisdiction to pass a regenerative development bill.
Up the Creek — Naam/Melbourne
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A regenerative business coaching case study. Up the Creek is a nature-based river experience founded on a different way to grow: by letting go of extraction-minded business logic and learning to work with the river as a partner, not a setting. Transformation unfolded.
About these Case Studies
These are not hypothetical examples or curated best practices sourced from elsewhere. They are projects we have been part of, and in some cases led. In other cases, we contributed to, over years and in real conditions. The work was difficult, non-linear, and occasionally uncomfortable. That is what genuine systems change looks like.
Each case study or work is linked to the Ten Pillars of Regenerative Tourism framework and documents not just what happened, but what we learned about how change actually moves through places and communities.