The EcoTipping Points Toolkit

A practical guide for organizations facilitating ecological restoration at community scale.

The toolkit details a structured process for using systems thinking methods with local communities to devise effective and durable solutions for reversing environmental decline. Our approach has been validated by decades of field experience across the rural global South.

What’s in the toolkit

Foundations

Short videos covering the core concepts behind positive tipping points, for anyone new to the framework.

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Systems Thinking

A five-part framework for understanding how ecological decline happens and how to reverse it: understand the concept, recognize the pattern, map the causes, find the levers, lock in the gains.

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Ingredients for Success

Ten attributes found consistently in successful restoration efforts, and how to put each one to work in your community.

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From the field

Four success stories from a growing archive of more than 100 documented cases.

When Stopping Fishing Saved the Fishery
Apo Island, Philippines
Saving a coral reef and its fishery
How a Dried-Up Village Learned to Bank Water
Gopalpura, India
Bringing back the water
When Farming the Forest Brought the Forest Back
Khao Din, Thailand
Restoring a damaged tropical forest landscape
Escaping the Pesticide Trap
Punukula, India
Escaping the pesticide trap