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Ready to move from “less bad” to regenerative?
This quiz doesn’t measure your level of greenwashing or ESG compliance—it measures your ability to think differently: to see your company as a living actor, not a detached entity that offsets after extracting. Six questions that confront what it means to build a business in a world that needs repair.
Answer A: Already integrates a sustainable logic—that’s enough
Answer B: Needs a strategic “green” upgrade on certain lines
Answer C: Was designed to operate without restoring what it impacts
Right !
✅ Correct answer: C
Let’s be clear: most existing business models are extractive by design. As long as your profits aren’t contingent on regenerating the human and natural systems you draw from, you remain in a predatory logic. Regeneration begins when your activity nourishes what it uses. This isn’t cosmetic adjustment—it’s a strategic refoundation.
Wrong !
✅ Correct answer: C
Let’s be clear: most existing business models are extractive by design. As long as your profits aren’t contingent on regenerating the human and natural systems you draw from, you remain in a predatory logic. Regeneration begins when your activity nourishes what it uses. This isn’t cosmetic adjustment—it’s a strategic refoundation.
When you talk about regeneration, you mainly think about…
Answer A: Biodiversity, ecosystems, the planet
Answer B: People at the heart of the organization
Answer C: A balance between economic performance and environmental impact
Right !
✅ Correct answer: A
Regeneration isn’t limited to humans. It includes soil, climate, and non-human life. If your ambition stops at “more humane” working conditions or a “better work-life balance,” you’re still operating within an anthropocentric framework. Regeneration means putting the economy at the service of life’s continuity—not the other way around. This requires shifting your center of gravity.
Wrong !
✅ Correct answer: A
Regeneration isn’t limited to humans. It includes soil, climate, and non-human life. If your ambition stops at “more humane” working conditions or a “better work-life balance,” you’re still operating within an anthropocentric framework. Regeneration means putting the economy at the service of life’s continuity—not the other way around. This requires shifting your center of gravity.
Your carbon strategy is…
Answer A: An essential CSR pillar on your Net Zero path
Answer B: The foundation of your shift to a regenerative model
Answer C: A compliance requirement you’re turning into a business lever
Right !
✅ Correct answer: A
Carbon is just an indicator—not an end goal. Cutting emissions is necessary but not sufficient. A regenerative strategy doesn’t just limit damage; it restores, reconnects, and repairs. If your ambition is to reach neutrality without creating ecosystem value around you, you’re still in a “less bad” logic. Regeneration demands more living systems, not just less CO₂.
Wrong !
✅ Correct answer: A
Carbon is just an indicator—not an end goal. Cutting emissions is necessary but not sufficient. A regenerative strategy doesn’t just limit damage; it restores, reconnects, and repairs. If your ambition is to reach neutrality without creating ecosystem value around you, you’re still in a “less bad” logic. Regeneration demands more living systems, not just less CO₂.
In your view, “strong sustainability” means…
Answer A: Preserving natural capital as much as possible
Answer B: Not substituting living systems with economic capital
Answer C: Smartly balancing the three pillars (economic, social, environmental)
Right !
✅ Correct answer: B
Strong sustainability rejects the idea that you can “offset” the destruction of a living system with monetary or social wealth. Dead soil can’t be bought back. A polluted river doesn’t convert into dividends. Regeneration goes further: it doesn’t just preserve—it rebuilds. If you’re still thinking in accounting equivalences between forms of capital, you’re missing the point.
Wrong !
✅ Correct answer: B
Strong sustainability rejects the idea that you can “offset” the destruction of a living system with monetary or social wealth. Dead soil can’t be bought back. A polluted river doesn’t convert into dividends. Regeneration goes further: it doesn’t just preserve—it rebuilds. If you’re still thinking in accounting equivalences between forms of capital, you’re missing the point.
To shift to a regenerative model, your first question should be…
Answer A: What is my level of dependence on living resources?
Answer B: What is my level of negative social and environmental impact?
Answer C: How much will it cost, and can we make it profitable?
Right !
✅ Correct answer: A
Regeneration starts by analyzing your invisible dependencies: on water, soil, climate, and vulnerable people. Before trying to “reduce your impacts,” look at what keeps you standing. What living foundations is your profitability based on? If you don’t know them, you’re not managing—you’re consuming blindly.
Wrong !
✅ Correct answer: A
Regeneration starts by analyzing your invisible dependencies: on water, soil, climate, and vulnerable people. Before trying to “reduce your impacts,” look at what keeps you standing. What living foundations is your profitability based on? If you don’t know them, you’re not managing—you’re consuming blindly.
The main brake on regeneration in your governance is…
Answer A: The difficulty of measuring its return on investment
Answer B: The cultural weight of your sector and its metrics
Answer C: The absence of technical solutions available at scale
Right !
✅ Correct answer: B
This isn’t a technology problem. It isn’t even a financial problem. It’s a mental operating system problem. As long as your strategy committees think in terms of performance, yield, leadership, and market share—instead of fertility, interdependence, and resilience—regeneration will remain cosmetic. It’s not a method. It’s a change in how you relate to the world.
Wrong !
✅ Correct answer: B
This isn’t a technology problem. It isn’t even a financial problem. It’s a mental operating system problem. As long as your strategy committees think in terms of performance, yield, leadership, and market share—instead of fertility, interdependence, and resilience—regeneration will remain cosmetic. It’s not a method. It’s a change in how you relate to the world.
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