Now that we have completed the first three webinars of our learning journey to regenerate bioregions, we would like to share more information about where we go from here. From the beginning, Penny and I have envisioned the full six months of this learning journey as having two phases — each lasting for three months. The first phase […]
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Something magical happened in the last week as Penny Heiple and I traveled through Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. We found ourselves inside the dream of bioregional regeneration for the Northeast Forest of Turtle Island. Our journey began in Norway, Maine where Roberta Hill welcomed us at the office of the Center for an Ecology-based
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Last Thursday we had a very special work day in Bogota with members of Territoria, Paisano, Azai Consultores, and our new foundation Barichara Regenerativa to design a regeneration fund for the Northern Andes. This grew out of a powerful gathering that took place in Putumayo a few weeks ago for the Movement of Territorial Foundations
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https://medium.com/media/7522ada4b5b7ed36aa27f3287555d581/href This is the video recording of our first webinar for the learning journey to regenerate bioregions that began earlier this week as part of the Design School for Regenerating Earth. People are gathering from all over the world to learn how to birth their own bioregional learning centers for the regeneration of entire landscapes
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En la Escuela para Regenerar la Tierra, estamos a punto de embarcarnos en un viaje de aprendizaje para crear una red planetaria de centros de aprendizaje biorregionales. Hemos desarrollado un marco para la regeneración de sistemas paisajísticos a gran escala que reúne muchas herramientas y enfoques de todo el mundo. Lo llamamos Plataforma de Regeneración
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Last week, Penny Heiple and I went to Putumayo for a special gathering of territorial foundations from different parts of Colombia. We were among local organizing teams from Barichara, Bogota, El Tambo, Florencia, Medellin, Montes de Maria, and Putumayo — each at different stages in their own process to establish a territorial foundation for their local communities.
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At the Design School for Regenerating Earth, we are about to embark on a learning journey to birth a planetary network of bioregional learning centers. We have developed a framework for the regeneration of large-scale landscape systems that brings together many tools and approaches from around the world. We call it the Platform for Bioregional Regeneration
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https://medium.com/media/fcbb0ba19b322ecabd62fa286edeae7a/href This is a very special conversation that I had with Dr. Dan Longboat of the Turtle Clan in the Mohawk Nation. Together we explored “finding the third way” that brings together the best of indigenous knowledge with the best of Western culture. Please watch and reflect on the wisdom that Dan brings to this discussion.
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The children are helping regrow the forest next to the Barichara River… With special thanks to Oswaldo Escobar for guiding the kids through a process of making “seed bombs” filled with native seeds. These beautiful balls of soil are thrown into the riparian zone of the river.When the rains come, the seeds will germinate and
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It is the dead rivers that stir something deep within me… This one is the Paramera and it drains into the Barichara River. When I walk to these places, I am pondering how the locals say that water continuously ran in this drainage until about 25–30 years ago. I add to this my knowledge that 95% of
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