Bioregioning 🌍
“Restoring land without restoring relationship is an empty exercise. It is relationship that will endure & relationship that will sustain the restored land”
– Robin Wall Kimmerer
– Robin Wall Kimmerer
What Lichen Can Teach us About Resilience & Relationship
Home — John Thackara
thackara.com“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... See more
Daniel Christian Wahl • Bioregioning: the defining practice of regenerative cultures
- Anchor every strategy in a bio-regional reality where materials, energy and meaning circulate locally first, globally only when sense demands.
Indy Johar • We Have Failed—Now Let’s Get Serious
“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.