It was in this context that thinkers like Peter Berg, Raymond Dasmann and Kirkpatrick Sale imagined different ways to inhabit the earth. Their offering was the bioregion: regions defined by natural borders rather than political boundaries. These could be defined by any natural characteristic delineating one place from another. The Planet Drum Found... See more

there is a pragmatic motivation for the more-than-local, smaller-than-global scale of the bioregion. It offers a scale at which tangible impacts of action can be felt; a sphere of influence and responsibility that one can connect to, and a closeness that can be the basis for love, care and stewardship. In this confluence of ideas relating to place ... See more

a bioregional collaborative here in the Connecticut River Valley in the United States, where I live. We’ve launched this collaborative in a specific bioregion. And a bioregion is an area that’s defined by its ecological boundaries, like watersheds, and also its cultural, heritage, and cultural expression that aligns with those physical and ecologic... See more