The Australia Quarterly invited CEO of Regen Melbourne, Kaj Löfgren, to reflect on RM’s work in the context of the polycrisis for their April 2025 edition. The article is republished here with permission.

Without requiring the services of a crystal ball, there are a few things we already know about 2025: We know that it’ll have 12 months and 365 days in it. We know our global political landscape has shifted. We know we’ll be at the whims of an increasingly unstable climate, no matter where we live or our socioeconomic status. And we know, despite it all, that so many millions of us will spend the next 12 months planting seeds in the hope they might one day bear branches strong enough to hold our visions of a better world. Here, Regen Melbourne CEO Kaj Lofgren reflects on why these seeds matter now more than ever. 

As the year draws to a close and Regen Melbourne celebrates it’s fourth birthday, CEO Kaj Löfgren launches our first ever Annual Report and reflects on a year of progress, big wins, sidesteps, re-shuffles and growth for our team, partners and projects.

The Swimmable Birrarung is a vast and ambitious project to regenerate our city’s iconic river so it’s not only swimmable, but healthy, clean and teeming with biodiversity. Regen Melbourne CEO, Kaj Lofgren, explains what’s currently standing in the way of this epic vision.

As Regen Melbourne enters its fourth year of existence, CEO Kaj Lofgren walks through our evolving model for systemic impact in 2024 and beyond.

Moving toward the next chapter of remaking Melbourne.

Developing the Regen Melbourne model.

Looking back at 2022 and where we think 2023 might take us.