About Us
Vision
Working with local communities to help them adapt and grow through regenerative practice guided by social connection, shared responsibility, and systems designed for long-term resilience.
Core Belief
When communities are resourced, connected, and supported in leading their own resilience efforts — from emergency preparedness to energy transition — they can adapt to climate impacts, recover from crisis, and build systems that regenerate land, relationships, and collective wellbeing.
Our Approach
Turning Tides works at the intersection of research, design, and implementation. We support communities to plan, demonstrate, and scale regenerative models that strengthen food, energy, and social systems while building leadership capacity across sectors.
Our multi-disciplinary team brings together expertise from urban planning, international development, food systems, and regenerative agriculture to connect global insight with grounded, local action.
Guiding Values
- Readiness over reactivity
- Connection over fragmentation
- Regeneration over extraction
- Respect for diverse knowledge systems
- Shared responsibility for collective wellbeing
Five Key Purposes
- Build climate-ready and regenerative communities
- Advance community-led emergency and adaptation planning
- Demonstrate and scale regenerative systems
- Foster cross-sector partnerships that amplify community leadership
- Strengthen leadership development and knowledge sharing