The Transperience Actbook: Going Green

A soulful journey from transformation to regeneration.

4 min readApr 16, 2025
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Imagine a world where progress feels like peace. Growth means healing, and work becomes a way to care for the Earth.

There’s a path winding, not just through nature but through us. Going green is not about fixing the world but remembering we’re part of it.

To go green is to return to roots, rhythm, and relationships. It’s not a trend but a remembering—a gentle, powerful re-alignment with life itself.

The urgency is real, but the opportunity is greater. Beneath the rising sea levels and burning forests, a more profound shift is taking place.

We often treat sustainability as a technical fix or external responsibility.
But what if it begins within?

What if going green is not just a way of doing but a way of being — rooted in existence, cultivated through experience, and expressed through action?

The Meaning of Going Green

To go green is to align with life.

It means more than recycling or reducing carbon footprints. It’s about recognizing the interdependence of all things — how your choices ripple through ecosystems, economies, and emotions.

Going green is a dual journey.

  • Personal: adopting habits that reflect care, awareness, and reverence.
  • Collective: scaling solutions that regenerate nature and nourish communities

It is the shift from sustainability as a sacrifice to sustainability as synergy.

In this sense, sustainability becomes sacred — a devotion to the planet, future generations, and the deeper self that knows that we belong to the Earth, not the other way around.

The Green Heart of Transformation

Green isn’t just a color — it’s a frequency.

In yogic tradition, green corresponds to Anahata, the heart chakra, which is the seat of compassion, balance, and integration.

To go green is to awaken the heart. To feel the pain of a dying coral reef or a burning forest and respond not with fear but love.

A fierce love that protects.
A tender love that listens.
A wise love that leads.

This is where transformation meets attention, intention, and action.
This is where we begin to care — not out of duty, but from deep resonance.

Regenerative Leadership

We’ve had enough of extractive leadership. The world needs regenerative leadership — where growth means healing, and progress means wholeness.

Regenerative leaders:

  • Merge personal purpose with planetary needs.
  • See systems and connection, not silos and isolation.
  • Act from possibility and importance, not panic and ignorance.

They ask:

“What kind of world do I want — and how can I contribute?”

It begins with a shift in mindset. From ego to ecosystem. From scarcity to reciprocity. From dominating nature to dancing with it.

Purpose-Driven Design

Human environments were designed for convenience and consumption, not connection or care. If we want people to live green, we must make green living easy, fun, and rewarding.

That’s where context design comes in. By shaping spaces that align values with behaviors, we make sustainable choices the natural ones:

  • Kitchens that offer plant-based meals.
  • Offices that reward carbon-light commuting.
  • Events that leave ecosystems better, not worse.

When we design for purpose, we unlock purpose-driven behavior.

The Power of Stories

Stories reach hearts, shape minds, and inspire movements.

Every significant sustainability shift began with a story, not just about saving the planet, but about becoming someone who can.

A story of belonging.
Of courage.
Of possibility.

What stories are we telling — about the future, nature, and ourselves?

Stories are seeds.
Planted well, they grow into beautiful minds and wonderful cultures.

Making Sustainability Easy, Fun, and Rewarding

Sustainability doesn’t have to be serious. It can be joyful.

We’re wired to respond to reward, play, and community. When green living feels good, more people engage — and stay engaged. That’s why:

  • Gamified challenges work.
  • Community collaboration sparks joy.
  • Celebrating small wins builds momentum.

Think of a garden. To thrive, it needs sunlight, water, and love. The same applies to sustainable behavior: It needs feedback, meaning, and fun.

Going Green by Heart and Scale

Going green starts with a whisper in the heart — and echoes across the system. It’s personal but never private.

To live green is to make each moment a vote for life, and to turn each choice into a statement of love for this planet and its people.

We must think big and act together. That’s how ripples become waves. And waves become transformation.

From Ocean to Forest

Red oceans compete.
Blue oceans create.
Green spaces?
They co-evolve.

Moving from the red and blue oceans of business as usual to the green space of collective thriving is not linear. It’s a leap from competition to collaboration, logic to love, and control to connection.

It’s an invitation. And the door is open.

What about you?

Going green means being more — but also doing more.

  • Plant a seed
  • Rewrite a story
  • Redesign your space
  • Reinvent your leadership
  • Reconnect with what matters.

The path is open. The forest is calling. Not for heroes but for healers.
Will you walk it?

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Laust Lauridsen, MD
Laust Lauridsen, MD

Written by Laust Lauridsen, MD

Help leaders and teams go beyond to transform and perform. Writer, speaker and facilitator.

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