By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 12 May 23
On May 19th, we embark upon a life-changing adventure to awaken the dream to regenerate the Colorado River Basin…The Colorado River is probably the most conflicted and challenging body of water in the world. It has a vast networks of dams to control its water flows and generate electricity or food for 30 million human inhabitants. Textbooks present this incredible river system as the standard example for how NOT to manage a river.It was famously divided into promised volumes of water to different states during a record decade of high precipitation. This means it is over allocated and has been since the
On May 19th, we embark upon a life-changing adventure to awaken the dream to regenerate the Colorado River Basin…The Colorado River is probably the most conflicted and challenging body of water in the world. It has a vast networks of dams to control its water flows and generate electricity or food for 30 million human inhabitants. Textbooks present this incredible river
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 3 May 23
When we opened the Design School for Regenerating Earth, our dream was to weave patterns of ecological and social restoration across entire landscapes — until they emerge as continental tapestries of regeneration. Right now this dream is expressing itself around four major regions of the Earth:Cascadia in the northwestern part of North America;The Great Lakes of North America;The “Great Turn” of the Northern Andes in Colombia; andThe Colorado River Basin of the southwest in North America.Our ambitious vision is to activate a Planetary Network of Bioregions with learning exchanges within and between them. This is fundamental to living out The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth.Right now,
When we opened the Design School for Regenerating Earth, our dream was to weave patterns of ecological and social restoration across entire landscapes — until they emerge as continental tapestries of regeneration. Right now this dream is expressing itself around four major regions of the Earth:Cascadia in the northwestern part of North America;The Great Lakes of North America;The “Great Turn” of the Northern Andes in
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 May 23
I have a dream of bringing dead rivers back to life.Those among us who are ready to devote our lives to regenerating the Earth must dare to dream beyond what feels possible today. On May 21st, two friends and I will embark upon a sacred journey to feel what it means to regenerate the Colorado River Basin.Is this a crazy thing to do? Not by a long shot. The human world has gone insane and this feels healthier than sitting in the dysfunction all around us. We will start by visiting the major headwaters along the western slopes of the Rockies — gathering gift
I have a dream of bringing dead rivers back to life.Those among us who are ready to devote our lives to regenerating the Earth must dare to dream beyond what feels possible today. On May 21st, two friends and I will embark upon a sacred journey to feel what it means to regenerate the Colorado River Basin.Is this a crazy thing to
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 23 Apr 23
I’m not going to sugarcoat this. We are in ecological overshoot. All unsustainable human cultures on Earth are in the process of becoming compost for future generations.This statement is empirically supported in two ways. Firstly, there are zero examples of sustainable empires or civilizations from the past. All of them have collapsed and the current one will be no different.Secondly, the convergence of observations about every health indicator imaginable for the Earth reveals that the explosion of human population in the last century was at the expense of degradation for landscapes all over the planet. We have converted Earth’s biodiversity
I’m not going to sugarcoat this. We are in ecological overshoot. All unsustainable human cultures on Earth are in the process of becoming compost for future generations.This statement is empirically supported in two ways. Firstly, there are zero examples of sustainable empires or civilizations from the past. All of them have collapsed and the current one will be no different.Secondly,
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: 16 Feb 23
This article is an invitation into the Design School for Regenerating Earth.People all over the world are gathering to learn how to restore landscapes, collaborate to achieve systemic outcomes, and work together in service to safeguarding our planetary future.When I wrote The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth, it was to show that it really is possible to do this at the necessary scales. We can organize ourselves around holistic, integrated landscapes known as bioregions. Create prosocial groups that know how to work toward shared goals. And weave across features of landscapes to collaborate at continental and planetary scales.https://medium.com/media/03ea951aec929d1ecf25c9b1e659f499/hrefBack in 2020,
This article is an invitation into the Design School for Regenerating Earth.People all over the world are gathering to learn how to restore landscapes, collaborate to achieve systemic outcomes, and work together in service to safeguarding our planetary future.When I wrote The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth, it was to show that it really is possible to do this at
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 28 Jan 23
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
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
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 26 Jan 23
I spent most of my life looking for the school that didn’t exist. Nine years spread across three universities only confirmed that the challenges humanity faces will not be addressed within them — though they can play a role if something new was born.Right now, our team is manifesting the Design School for Regenerating Earth that we aspire to become a vital piece of the new educational tapestry. It grows out of three years after founding Earth Regenerators as a global community of people who (a) get the seriousness of our planetary predicament; and (b) want to help heal people and landscapes in
I spent most of my life looking for the school that didn’t exist. Nine years spread across three universities only confirmed that the challenges humanity faces will not be addressed within them — though they can play a role if something new was born.Right now, our team is manifesting the Design School for Regenerating Earth that we aspire to become a vital piece
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 26 Jan 23
I spent most of my life looking for the school that didn’t exist. Nine years spread across three universities only confirmed that the challenges humanity faces will not be addressed within them — though they can play a role if something new was born.Right now, our team is manifesting the Design School for Regenerating Earth that we aspire to become a vital piece of the new educational tapestry. It grows out of three years after founding Earth Regenerators as a global community of people who (a) get the seriousness of our planetary predicament; and (b) want to help heal people and landscapes in
I spent most of my life looking for the school that didn’t exist. Nine years spread across three universities only confirmed that the challenges humanity faces will not be addressed within them — though they can play a role if something new was born.Right now, our team is manifesting the Design School for Regenerating Earth that we aspire to become a vital piece
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 22 Jan 23
We are prototyping new ways to collaborate with Barichara that can be applied to other bioregions in the future…A few months ago Penny Heiple and I hosted the first call for Barichara Projects where we are organizing to help with fundraising and other supports that can collaborate with those who participate virtually from around the world.The focus was on how to create structures and processes for collaboration. You can watch the recording here:https://medium.com/media/a558c19198d51881ed696a190dc10e1d/hrefWatch this video to see how we are learning to collaborate.In this article, we would like to share some of the structures that are emerging for how to “activate” and
We are prototyping new ways to collaborate with Barichara that can be applied to other bioregions in the future…A few months ago Penny Heiple and I hosted the first call for Barichara Projects where we are organizing to help with fundraising and other supports that can collaborate with those who participate virtually from around the world.The focus was on how to create