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: 9 Jan 25
In February 2024, the Territorial Foundations movement of Colombia decided to design and implement a Territorial Regeneration Fund. This fund is part of a collective bet as a movement to generate new paradigms of transformation in the country.Our geography to organize is “North Andean” in size with a focus on watersheds and ecosystems that exist among the movements of water in holistic hydrological systems. Water connects all living beings, including humanity, in all our territories. All territories have shared issues such as the need to convert industrial agriculture to regenerative models and the same for tourism, food security, wellbeing, and so forth.Community
In February 2024, the Territorial Foundations movement of Colombia decided to design and implement a Territorial Regeneration Fund. This fund is part of a collective bet as a movement to generate new paradigms of transformation in the country.Our geography to organize is “North Andean” in size with a focus on watersheds and ecosystems that exist among the movements of water in
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: 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: 14 Jul 24
Dreaming of the Ogallala :: The Fourth DayOn our fourth day we visited the playas that naturally #RegenerateTheOgallala…These shallow depressions create temporary wetlands when it rains. There are at least 60,000 of them spread throughout the high plains and each is capable of sinking large amounts of water into the massive underground aquifer that spans from Texas to Wyoming.In the morning, there was a gathering hosted by the local organization Ogallala Commons to learn about the unique animals and plants that make the playa their home. I touched the soil and felt how spongy and light it is — allowing most of the water to
Dreaming of the Ogallala :: The Fourth DayOn our fourth day we visited the playas that naturally #RegenerateTheOgallala…These shallow depressions create temporary wetlands when it rains. There are at least 60,000 of them spread throughout the high plains and each is capable of sinking large amounts of water into the massive underground aquifer that spans from Texas to Wyoming.In the morning, there was
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Jul 24
Dreaming of the Ogallala :: The Third DayOn our third day, I began to dream of a $100 million dollar fund to #RegenerateTheOgallala…In the morning we drove across 8000 acres of sand dunes covered in grass. This natural geologic feature absorbs 100% of the rain that falls onto it to recharge the aquifer that is below the two hundred feet of sandy soil on this part of the land.I could feel how people on the Great Plains need to understand how important this groundwater supply is. The feeling became more clear as we walked barefoot in the Canadian River that is more sand
Dreaming of the Ogallala :: The Third DayOn our third day, I began to dream of a $100 million dollar fund to #RegenerateTheOgallala…In the morning we drove across 8000 acres of sand dunes covered in grass. This natural geologic feature absorbs 100% of the rain that falls onto it to recharge the aquifer that is below the two hundred feet of sandy
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 12 Jul 24
Dreaming of the Ogallala :: The Second DayWe continue exploring what it would take to #RegenerateTheOgallala…On our second day, we went out into the landscape to feel the southern edge of this massive groundwater system that spans from Amarillo, Texas all the way north into Nebraska and Wyoming. This is the beginning of the high plains and an arid region that fundamentally depends on infrequent rainfall for all who live here.In the morning, we visited ponds where trees have grown high around their edges to provide shelter and shade We observed the sandy soils and smooth rocks that piled up here in alluvial
Dreaming of the Ogallala :: The Second DayWe continue exploring what it would take to #RegenerateTheOgallala…On our second day, we went out into the landscape to feel the southern edge of this massive groundwater system that spans from Amarillo, Texas all the way north into Nebraska and Wyoming. This is the beginning of the high plains and an arid region that fundamentally
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Jul 24
Dreaming of the Ogallala :: The First DayOur dreaming about how to #RegenerateTheOgallala begins…We arrived in Amaraillo, Texas and were received by our friend Will Masters who has been doing dryland restoration work in these beautiful landscapes for several years now.Our first few days will be spent at Kritser Ranch — a 33,000 acre piece of land that seems to go on forever. As we journey into stream beds that no longer have flows of water, I can feel what it would take to restore their former abundance.We are already deep in conversations about intergenerational change among those who own this land, how to organize
Dreaming of the Ogallala :: The First DayOur dreaming about how to #RegenerateTheOgallala begins…We arrived in Amaraillo, Texas and were received by our friend Will Masters who has been doing dryland restoration work in these beautiful landscapes for several years now.Our first few days will be spent at Kritser Ranch — a 33,000 acre piece of land that seems to go on forever. As we