By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Aug 24
Launch Event :: Bioregional Funding EcosystemsWe are excited to announce the kick-off of a process to design and build bioregional funding ecosystems. In partnership with the Legacy Project, the Design School for Regenerating Earth is hosting an in person gathering of people who are actively organizing around this work.The launch event will take place from September 24th thru 28th in the Greater Tkaronto Bioregion.Penny Heiple and I are working closely with Brian Puppa and Susan Bosak to create this gathering — which builds directly upon our previous collaboration led by the Legacy Project with the 7-Generation Bioregional Earth Summit that took place in February.
Launch Event :: Bioregional Funding EcosystemsWe are excited to announce the kick-off of a process to design and build bioregional funding ecosystems. In partnership with the Legacy Project, the Design School for Regenerating Earth is hosting an in person gathering of people who are actively organizing around this work.The launch event will take place from September 24th thru 28th in the Greater
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 24 Apr 24
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 is more theoretical. Together we need to create shared language, take the time to be sure that when we use words like bioregional learning center we are talking about the same thing. And when we create frameworks for collaboration at the bioregional scale that they share
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 is more theoretical. Together we need
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 20 Apr 24
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 Economy (CEBE). It was there that I took a photo of this wonderful decolonial map for North America.This felt appropriate because we were about to begin a journey of discovery into the Northeast Forest — something much bigger and more ambitious than what brought us to Maine in the
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 Economy (CEBE). It was there that
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 27 Mar 23
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 around us.Political maps exemplify what I am talking about. The one you see below has carved the Earth up into the spoils of domination and war among human factions. Why is one half of Lake Ontario in Canada and the other in the United States? How
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 around us.Political maps exemplify what I
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 15 Jan 23
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, we are creating a territorial foundation. It is a specific incarnation of something more general. Not every bioregion needs to create a territorial foundation, but every bioregion DOES need the core capacities enabled by what our territorial foundation is doing.Also here in Barichara we are creating an ecoversity.
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, we are creating a territorial foundation. It
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 7 Jan 23
Exploring the Ozarks :: A Bioregional JourneyThe stream you see at the top of this article was my lifeline. I am here because of her clear waters, rippling chimes of natural music, and the deep calm I felt playing in her flows as a child. Welcome to Joy Creek.Penny and I took Elise to visit my family in the Ozarks. This ancient terrain stands out as a plateau of highlands that break the otherwise endless flatness of the Great Plains. Rocks formed as sediments that drifted to the seafloor of a long-ago ocean that split the North American continent. Over hundreds of
Exploring the Ozarks :: A Bioregional JourneyThe stream you see at the top of this article was my lifeline. I am here because of her clear waters, rippling chimes of natural music, and the deep calm I felt playing in her flows as a child. Welcome to Joy Creek.Penny and I took Elise to visit my family in the Ozarks. This ancient