The Great Simplification

Buckminster Fuller says, you don't change things by fi ghting the existing reality, you build something new that makes the existing model obsolete

what if all the facets of what we now call world problematic or the polycrisis show up in my bioregion, but they show up with a name and a face, they show up with a speci fi c ecosystem, they show up with a speci fi c history and timeline and everything. And suddenly, by becoming speci fi c, and detailed, and nuanced, and full of warm data, as Nora... See more

it's actually interesting to think of the meta potential. of coming home to place, rather than lose ourselves in the meta crisis of yet again trying to fi nd solutions to a problem at global scale

it's a two way exchange between place and people, and in many ways that's what bioregioning is trying to get back to, that kind of two way exchange, but also this sense of belonging to place, having an identity that's rooted in place

biregioning, which is the verb, like how do you do it, really is kind of getting to grips with existing power structures, with politics, with economics, with, uh, climate change with all the kind of challenges and ills that we're facing. [00:06:33] And some people see it as a response to the polycrisis because it embraces everything, because it cov... See more