The living systems of Earth are already interwoven. This simple truth should have profound consequences for how we as humans organize ourselves across the landscapes of our precious home planet. Yet if you look at most maps created by humans, you will notice how frequently we project our own delusions of separation on the world […]
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Everything is connected. This simple truth has profound consequences. It should be obvious that all knowledge is connected too — though this is clearly not the case. Simply look at any course catalogue at a university and you will find that knowledge has been divided into disciplinary silos and academic departments. When I went to college back
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This article is an invitation into the Design School for Regenerating Earth. People all over the world are gathering to learn how to restore landscapes, collaborate to achieve systemic outcomes, and work together in service to safeguarding our planetary future. When I wrote The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth, it was to show that it
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It has long been known that the political boundaries of the world as they are today do not readily map onto the landscapes of challenges for ecological or social health. We need a different way of organizing ourselves. The most coherent way to organize humanity is in the bioregional approach of holistic landscapes and cultural
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I spent most of my life looking for the school that didn’t exist. Nine years spread across three universities only confirmed that the challenges humanity faces will not be addressed within them — though they can play a role if something new was born. Right now, our team is manifesting the Design School for Regenerating Earth that we
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I spent most of my life looking for the school that didn’t exist. Nine years spread across three universities only confirmed that the challenges humanity faces will not be addressed within them — though they can play a role if something new was born. Right now, our team is manifesting the Design School for Regenerating Earth that we
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We are prototyping new ways to collaborate with Barichara that can be applied to other bioregions in the future… A few months ago Penny Heiple and I hosted the first call for Barichara Projects where we are organizing to help with fundraising and other supports that can collaborate with those who participate virtually from around the world.
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In the last three years, a tremendous amount of progress has been made to create shared culture and identity around what it means to be an Earth Regenerator. Together we have hosted learning journeys, social gatherings, project incubators, fundraising, on-the-ground efforts and more — all with the deep purpose to safeguard humanity in the midst of planetary
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I want to begin sharing how we can learn to “activate” the regeneration of entire bioregions… The work of Bioregional Activators is to create real-world impacts on the ground in different landscapes around the world. This means each landscape needs to learn how to organize itself at the bioregional or territorial scale. Here in Barichara,
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We simply will not regenerate the Earth without creating a planetary network of integrated landscapes… this is a sobering truth for all of us. A few months ago, the founder of Commonland Foundation came to visit us in Barichara. His name is Willem Ferwerda and he has figured out how to translate large-scale infrastructure projects into
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