Bioregioning 🌍
Creating a Flourishing Digital Public Space for Your Local Area
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“Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.”
—Edward O. Wilson
What it takes to grab the biggest slice of the pie is different than what it takes to make the biggest pie. This is, quite literally, the fundamental problem of human social life, and it is just as true for an individual in a team as it is for a nation-state arguing that it should be allowed to release more carbon than other nations.
We need to construct conditions in which altruism can thrive.
What's in it for me → What's in it for us? Eco-system!
The three Cs of human distinctiveness:
Cooperation. First, we easily cooperate with others who are genetically unrelated to us and are by far the most cooperative primate.
Cognition. Second, our cognition is different, especially our capacity for symbolic thought and relational learning.
Culture. And, third, we culturally transmit more learned behavioral information across generations than other species.
Bioregioning A manual
Guidelines for bioregional design emphasize reorganization, reuse of existing structures, learning from traditional knowledge, and continuous prototyping, prioritizing local materials and sustainable practices for future generations.
fojournal.orgMobilising BWL co-funding.docx
docs.google.comThe BioFi Project: Glossary
biofi.earth
Integrated map and compass weaving the 8 value adding phases of bioregional governance from Europe and 7 dynamic wayfinding and weaving process of bioregional governance in Asia -Pacific inspired by the maritime navigation skills of Austronesian ancestors of the region. (Queblatin, 2024)
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
Contested Terrain - Future Observatory Journal
- Anchor every strategy in a bio-regional reality where materials, energy and meaning circulate locally first, globally only when sense demands.