Bioregioning 🌍
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
Bio-cultural restoration:
Place: where we are
Culture: who we are
Economy: what we do
Each person needs to be the bearer of the kind of knowledge that allows that person to be a steward of the planet.
Calvin Po • Donella Meadows Revisited - Future Observatory Journal
Donella Meadows
What is a Bioregion? - Brandon Letsinger
brandonletsinger.com
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.
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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.
