Curating Content To Support Learning About Humanity's Transition

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This content was posted on  28 Jan 23  by   Joe Brewer  on  Medium
What is a Bioregional Learning Center?

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 identities.

One powerful way to do this is embodied in the concept of a bioregional learning center — which is an educational hub for gathering and synthesizing knowledge about local ecology and culture. This ten minute video gives a flavor of the potential that exists to be unleashed in the form of bioregional education.

What I want to stress here is that we can take a great deal of existing knowledge and local organizing capacities and re-imagine them as being in service to holistic landscapes at the local level. Whether organized as a watershed, coastal estuary, in-land trade network of rivers and lakes, or any other landscape pattern with a long history of ecological or economic connectivity, it is possible to treat this landscape pattern as a way to integrate and cooperate for regenerative goals.

At the Design School for Regenerating Earth, we are helping local communities learn how to see themselves as living landscapes. We support the activation of bioregional processes that enable learning ecosystems to emerge. It is possible to organize around landscape funds and other mechanisms of local governance that give birth to the learning exchanges of landscapes as a whole.

I hope you find this helpful in your efforts to regenerate the Earth.

Onward, fellow humans.

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