About Us
and the ecosystem we belong to
Cascading is intent on seeing every business reach its unique potential as a Force for Life.
Cascading is a business development and advisory organization that helps Business Leaders and Stewards activate regeneration and bring more Life through their business.
By allowing more Life to flow through the core of business, for the past 10 years, Cascading has supported amazing organizations (from small non-profit organizations, financial organizations, to multinational Fortune 500 companies) located mainly in The Americas and Western Europe.
Cascading’s services reach:
Business leaders and business weavers
Impact investors and other financiers
Land and water stewards
Cascading’s Team
Cascading's team is comprised of passionate, experienced and Life-loving individuals.
Carolina Fernández-Jansink
Life-centered Strategist & Founder
Carolina is passionate and committed to supporting Businesses in becoming a Force for Life. Her journey for the past 20 years has been to guide Business Leaders and Stewards to allow more Life to flow through their Business.
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As a biomimic, Life-centered business strategist and sustainable and regenerative finance expert, her experience spans across several countries, bioregions, and companies in The Americas and Western Europe. She is the founder of Cascading, co-founder of Dear Wise Earth and Emerging Eco Renaissance, and advisor to Savory Foundation, Campo Garzón, Universidad de Cooperación Internacional, and Net Positive.
She is grateful to have worked with some of the most loving and inspiring experts and movements in the fields of: Companies that mimic Life, Biomimicry, Regenerative Agriculture, Regenerative Finance, Regenerative Education, Indigenous Wisdom, Life-centered design, and certainly Mother Earth.
She holds a MSc in Business from Erasmus-Rotterdam School of Management, a BSc from Tecnológico de Monterrey and a Biomimicry certificate from Biomimicry 3.8.
Together with her family, they belong to the Upper Flint Watershed, located in the lush Appalachian Piedmont Forests in the USA; the beautiful Sierra Madre Oriental in Mexico; and the peaceful West European Coastal Forests in The Netherlands.
Rebecca Barbara MacKinnon
Rebecca is a creative from Cape Town, South Africa, who is dedicated to purposeful endeavors in design, biomimicry, and regeneration. Kind and welcoming, she is committed to bringing intention and care to all aspects of her work.
Life-centered Researcher & Designer
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At Cascading, Rebecca plays a vital role in planning, design implementation, and visual communication, infusing her projects with creativity and beauty. As a biomimicry professional and educator, Rebecca mentors aspiring professionals, manages communities, contributes to educational product development, and shares her expertise in systems-based biomimetic architecture design, advocating for living buildings that embrace biophilia and ecological performance standards.
Rebecca holds a MSc in Bio-inspired Innovation from Utrecht University, a BSc (Hons) in Marine Biology from the University of Cape Town, Design Thinking Certificate from Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design, and is a Biomimicry Practitioner (Biomimicry Academy Germany).
Rebecca is a sister to four and an aunt to two, and connects to Place through ocean swims and sunrise hikes. She is part of the Berg watershed and Cape Floristic Region.
Daniela Esponda Rodríguez
Life-centered Innovator
Daniela is a biomimetic industrial designer and technology inventor with a passion for nature-based solutions, nature-inspired design, and sustainability.
She specializes in innovation and product development: ideation, design, prototyping, business strategy, and go-to-market strategy.
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Alongisde Cascading, Daniela is also a founder of many organizations focused on developing sustainable, innovative technologies that learn from nature and emulate organisms, combining art, design, science, and nature, and has developed several patents and trademarks for her developed technologies.
Daniela has 18 years of experience in product design and development and green businesses for startups, private sector, and as an independent consultant. She holds a Master of Sciences in Biomimicry from Arizona State University.
Throughout her career, Daniela has earned international recognition for her creative and innovative biomimetic solutions, as well as green business competitions. She has facilitated conferences and workshops on the Science of Biomimicry, holds a functional leadership position at a biomimicry network, and teaches as a professor of Biomimetic Sciences at UNAM in Mexico.
Daniela is part of the cuenca del valle de mexico watershed.
Bowie Yin Sum Kung
Life-centered Communicator
Hong Kong native and descendant of the Tenka peoples and Zhejiang Han tribe, Bowie Yin Sum Kung is a regenerative writer, passionate environmental educator and activist, and tenacious composter.
She promotes composting and agroecology with various local organizations and institutions in Costa Rica.
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At Cascading, Bowie is committed to centering Life in creating different forms of communication and relationships. In her work, she strives to reflect and connect deeply with Living systems, speaking to the Life in the reader.
Bowie holds a Certificate in Regenerative Entrepreneurship and a BA in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College, and is currently pursuing her MS in Climate Change and Development from SOAS University of London.
Bowie grew up on volcanic islands in the Jian Nan Subtropical Forests (now known as Hong Kong) and is now grateful to live in traditional Huetar territory and the Rio Toyogres watershed in the Isthmian forest of Costa Rica, with her partner, Juan, and a dog, Sultan.
Cascading Advisory
We are truly inspired by the Life and work of our Advisors, in the fields of Regeneration, Life-centered Design, Biomimicry, Arts and Finance. We are grateful for the support and friendship they have provided us with.
Coming soon.
Cascading Collaborators
Cascading is honored to walk alongside impactful businesses that are allies in transitioning toward business as a Force for Life.
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Dear Wise Earth
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Ingoin Strategy
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Nature Design Lab
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Regenerative Communities Network
Movements, Organizations & People we Admire
With their approval, we humbly recognize the loving pioneers & the movements they helped create or grow.
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Jay Bragdon
Author on the Emerging EcoRenaissance
General Partner at Conservest ManagementLife and Business
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Eduard Müller
President and Rector at Universidad para la Cooperación Internacional, UNESCO Chair for Biosphere Reserves, Natural and Mixed World Heritage Sites
Regenerative Education and Living Systems Learning
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Gregorio von Hildebrand
Founder of DearWise.Earth and PT Taman Bebek International
Indigenous Wisdom
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Jenny Andersson
Founder of Really Regenerative Centre CIC
Lighthouse and Confluence of Regenerative Practitioners
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John Fullerton
Founder and President of Capital Institute
Regenerative Economics
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Li An Phoa
Drinkable Rivers Initiator and Founder
Voice and Movement of Rivers
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Melina Ángel
Bioregional Regenerator & Biomimicry Professor at Universidad para la Cooperación Internacional
Living and Regenerative Systems advisor at BioStudioVoice of Latin America, Biology and Evolution of Life
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Thomas Steiner
Director at Fluxus Time
Associate at Sustainable Finance Lab, Utrecht University
Former Head of Corporate Identity, Triodos BankAnthroposophy and Finance
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Savory Institute
Facilitating the large-scale regeneration of the world’s grasslands and the livelihoods of their inhabitants, through Holistic Management.
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Bioregional & Energy-based Money
Business Leaders & Stewards
Cascading works with leaders like you - leaders who have a deep purpose and drive to act, to propose, to create something new, something better.
With you, we see a world where businesses become a force for Life.
Bioregions We Belong To
Although our work is global, we honor the places and mentors we call home, the bioregions and watersheds that sustain us.
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Appalachian Piedmont Forests
Atlanta, USA
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Sierra Madre Oriental
Monterrey, Mexico
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Atlantic Mixed Forests
The Netherlands
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Cape Floralistic Region
Cape Town, South Africa
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Isthmian Forests
Costa Rica
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