Bioregioning đ
"The first publications were called a âBundleâânot a book, rather individual essays, poetry, graphics and posters, each printed separately and then assembled unbound into an envelopeânamed PLANET/DRUM. The PLANET/DRUM Bundles were originally conceived to spread planetary informationâa âvoice for the planet,â and to have production/publishing decentralized, passed around among activists in various locales around the planet, making PLANET/DRUM beats from various places. The first Bundle invited collaboration with, âDo you have a message to send out?â
âA bioregion can be determined initially by use of climatology, physiography, animal and plant geography, natural history and other descriptive natural sciences. The final boundaries of a bioregion, however, are best described by the people who have lived within it, through human recognition of the realities of living-in-place.â... See more
â Peter Berg &
Bioregioning: the defining practice of regenerative cultures
They would contain people with excellent minds and tools, but they would not be walled off, as scientific centers so often are, either from the lives of ordinary people or from the realities of political processes. The people in these centers would be at home with farmers, miners, planners, and heads of state and they would be able both listen to... See more
Calvin Po ⢠Donella Meadows Revisited - Future Observatory Journal
It is easy to love the beautiful places that we might live, and to ignore the other, less beautiful and unknown places that support our livelihoods.
The second was a critique of the lack of attention given in bioregional thought to the many places that support our lives. Critical analyses of power in the ecological and environmental crises have... See more
Contested Terrain - Future Observatory Journal
Val Plumwood, Shadow Places and the Politics of Dwelling. Australian Humanities Review 44: 139â150, 2008.
The job of these centers is basically to enhance that capacity that Vernon and John talked of, the capacity to solve problems in ways that are consistent with the culture and the environment. The centers collect, make sense of, and disseminate information about the resources of their bioregions, and about the welfare of the people and of the... See more