Bioregioning 🌍

The context is also upbeat—the centers are full of concrete and useful information about how these values actually can be achieved. They know the potentials of their regions for sustainable fruitfulness, and they talk about opportunities as well as obstacles.

Each person needs to be the bearer of the kind of knowledge that allows that person to be a steward of the planet.

Bioregioning: from verb to ‘bioregion’; act of bringing your bioregion into existence through: grounding, connecting, celebrating, belonging.

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Material and bio-regional transformation

We are therefore stumbling, unknowingly, into a material revolution. The most forward-looking clothing companies no longer “sell” garments; they assume custodianship, inviting the wearer into a public-trust relationship with fibres that must be stewarded, not discarded.

The same logic scales to buildings,... See more

The southern African concept of Ubuntu – I am because you are, I exist because everything else exists – is becoming a popular metaphor to convey the sense of relationality.