By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 19 Mar 25
Yesterday we embarked on a new journey of discovery to help strengthen and grow a planetary network of bioregions — with people from all over the world who want to help regenerate the Earth.This will be a six-month exploration that includes bi-weekly webinars and a strong focus on local organizing in real-world communities. We are sharing the first webinar publicly so that more people can get a feel for what we are doing this year in the Design School for Regenerating Earth. More than 200 people attended the session live and we could feel the historic potential for this way of organizing.You can
Yesterday we embarked on a new journey of discovery to help strengthen and grow a planetary network of bioregions — with people from all over the world who want to help regenerate the Earth.This will be a six-month exploration that includes bi-weekly webinars and a strong focus on local organizing in real-world communities. We are sharing the first webinar publicly so that more
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 8 Feb 25
In these times of turbulent change, we cannot depend upon the stability of human systems. The boundaries through which most of them were created are fickle and unfit for the complex challenges we must face today.For example, there are political lines drawn across bodies of water that divide nation states. The Great Lakes don’t care where the United States ends or Canada begins. Only human institutions do that. Thematic categories break apart holistic realities into narrow policy domains. Reality doesn’t break health down into psychology, medicine, or water quality. That is something human institutions do.What if we let our human systems
In these times of turbulent change, we cannot depend upon the stability of human systems. The boundaries through which most of them were created are fickle and unfit for the complex challenges we must face today.For example, there are political lines drawn across bodies of water that divide nation states. The Great Lakes don’t care where the United States ends or
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 4 Jan 25
At the Design School for Regenerating Earth, we are excited to announce our new learning journey for 2025 called How to Organize Your Bioregion.This will be a six month long exploration into what it means to live bioregionally, how to create the conditions for collaboration around the regeneration of vital ecosystems, and what you can do locally to contribute to restoring health to the Earth as a whole. Join us for the very affordable membership fee of $49 per year (or $5/month) to participate in this powerful opportunity.Our mission is to support learning exchanges among bioregions as we coordinate efforts
At the Design School for Regenerating Earth, we are excited to announce our new learning journey for 2025 called How to Organize Your Bioregion.This will be a six month long exploration into what it means to live bioregionally, how to create the conditions for collaboration around the regeneration of vital ecosystems, and what you can do locally to contribute to
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 4 Dec 24
Hi everyone, my name is Joe Brewer and today I want to share with you some of my observations about the problematic framing of the climate discourse.Now some of you may remember that a long time ago in my life I worked with George Lakeoff and helped to extend his understandings of cognitive linguistics and frame analysis to work with social movements around the world and that I did a lot of frame analysis around the sustainable development goals and what’s wrong with them and around basic economic ideas, the framing of global warming and various other topics, things that
Hi everyone, my name is Joe Brewer and today I want to share with you some of my observations about the problematic framing of the climate discourse.Now some of you may remember that a long time ago in my life I worked with George Lakeoff and helped to extend his understandings of cognitive linguistics and frame analysis to work with
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 29 Jun 24
Earlier this year, I shared that we are designing a regeneration fund for the Northern Andes. It is an ambitious effort growing out of the movement of territorial foundations in Colombia that is spearheaded by the support organization Territoria based in Bogota.We are excited to announce that we are receiving our first significant grant of $150,000 to catalyze this fund into being. Our focus will be to prototype a bioregional funding ecosystem that spans several distinct territories of the Northern Andes that are all based in Colombia.As you can see in the map below, there are local efforts to establish territorial
Earlier this year, I shared that we are designing a regeneration fund for the Northern Andes. It is an ambitious effort growing out of the movement of territorial foundations in Colombia that is spearheaded by the support organization Territoria based in Bogota.We are excited to announce that we are receiving our first significant grant of $150,000 to catalyze this fund into
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 4 Jun 24
This is an essay written on June 4, 2018 when I was the director for the Center for Applied Cultural Evolution I am reposting it as part of the original 3-part series from that time. Find Part 1 here and Part 3 here.Last week I published a 10-page essay arguing that my own life’s work cannot possibly succeed — in the hope that it would be taken up as a “grand challenge” for others to prove wrong. Astute readers will note the hidden pathway that resolves this seeming paradox. For the only way to prove me wrong is to actually build a rigorous
This is an essay written on June 4, 2018 when I was the director for the Center for Applied Cultural Evolution I am reposting it as part of the original 3-part series from that time. Find Part 1 here and Part 3 here.Last week I published a 10-page essay arguing that my own life’s work cannot possibly succeed — in the hope that
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 20 Feb 24
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 and it has three foundational pillars:Creation of a learning ecosystem organized around at least one bioregional learning center for every unique landscape on Earth.Weave a tapestry of local projects into holistic, integrated landscapes that are organized as watersheds, coastal estuaries, mountain ranges, and other geophysical features of
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 and it has three foundational pillars:Creation
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 2 Feb 24
https://medium.com/media/fcbb0ba19b322ecabd62fa286edeae7a/hrefThis 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. Also please share the video with anyone who might find value in it. This was a conversation that helped shape the creation of the 7 Generation Bioregional Earth Summit and is part of the work that Brian Puppa and Susan Bosak are doing at the Legacy Project.I highly
https://medium.com/media/fcbb0ba19b322ecabd62fa286edeae7a/hrefThis 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. Also please share the video with anyone
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Jan 24
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 take root. This is a powerful way to get children involved in critically important reforestation efforts.Here in Barichara, we are creating a regenerative Waldorf school that helps the children grow fully into themselves and also supports the restoration of rivers and forests in our territory.Really feeling
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 take root. This is a powerful
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 7 Jan 24
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 the native forest has been cut down in the last eighty years. The entire region is in the process of becoming a desert. It is a human-caused calamity.My imagination stirs at the thoughts of bringing back the forest, connecting the biological corridors, and weaving of human activities
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 the native forest has been cut down