Bioregioning 🌍

“The natural region is the bioregion, defined by the qualities Gaea has established there, the givens of nature. It is any part of the earth’s surface whose rough boundaries are determined by natural characteristics rather than human dictates, distinguishable from other areas by particular attributes of flora, fauna, water, climate, soil, and

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“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” — Wendell Berry ( 2001)

At the global level, climate change and other systemic crises often feel abstract and overwhelming—too big to grasp and too complex to act on. But when we zoom in to the bioregional scale, something profound happens: the 'polycrisis' we speak of suddenly has a face, hands, and legs, as Leon Seefeld aptly put it, in a recent webinar. It becomes... See more

Tyson said a boundary is a place of kin-making, not kin-breaking. It’s about relationship-making. It allows you to say, “This is where we are, and there’s a beyond,” but the idea is to connect and interweave dynamically with that beyond—not to build a wall and shut it out.