{"id":111379,"key":"Bioregionalism","title":"Bioregionalism","latest":{"id":1273771,"timestamp":"2026-09-16T14:53:11Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Doughruagh and Garraun massif from Diamond Hill.jpg|thumb|Doughruagh and Garraun massif from Diamond Hill, Twelve Bens, Connemara, Ireland. Author:\tBritishfinance]]\n\nThis page is for community groups and community agency networks ([[Citizens Action Network handbook|CANs]]) interested in developing a bioregional approach, or simply interested in finding out more about bioregionalism.\n\n== News ==\n\n{{Tabs\n| tab1 = Bioregioning\n| tab2 = Urban rural connections\n| tab3 = Cosmolocal\n| content1 = {{News card|keyword=Bioregion|limit=3}}\n\n{{Read more|Bioregionalism news}}\n\n| content2 = {{News card|keyword=URC|limit=3}}\n| content3 = {{News card|location=Earth|limit=3}}\n}}\n\n== Video ==\n\n<div class=\"grid\">\n\n{{Video\n| s5MxOUm4Jz0\n| title = THE FUTURE IS BIOREGIONAL\n| authors = Turtle Island Bioregional Congress - 11, ''9.46 mins.''\n| date = 2026-02-12\n}}\n\n{{Video\n| VbC2yIbfh-M\n| title = BLC Learning Journey 2024\n| authors = Bioregional TV, ''6.06 mins.''\n| date = 2024-10-22\n}}\n\n{{Video\n| axJAgI4lpOA\n| title = Regenerate Cascadia\n| authors = Cascadia Department of Bioregion\n| date = 2023-04-16\n}}\n\n{{Video\n| video = J1C22mo5ta4\n| title = Waterford Bioregion Food Manifesto\n| authors = Commonland, Jul 5, 2023\n}}\n\n{{Video\n| video = wiJLqcIV7kE\n| title = Amazonía 2041: A Vision From the Future\n| authors = Cuencas Sagradas, Nov 5, 2021\n}}\n\n{{Video\n| WlW0YDcTEF4\n| title = Otro mundo es posible\n| authors = Costa Rica Regenerativa\n| date = 2021-04-14\n}}\n\n{{Video\n| Ys7XUCYgXl8\n| title = Youth Change Makers Training amb Resilience Earth\n| authors = Resilience Earth\n| date = 2019-05-23\n}}\n\n{{Video\n| video = xZSDYzhMv6c\n| title = Regenerative Projects of SINAL - Legendas português\n| authors = Sinal do Vale, Feb 22, 2018\n}}\n\n{{Video\n| KUFky2as5hI\n| title = Burren Winterage Weekend\n| authors = BurrenbeoTrust\n| date = 2013-08-23\n}}\n\n</div>\n\n== Events ==\n\n{{Events card|location=world|keyword=bioregioning}}\n\n== Helping bioregions emerge and evolve ==\n\n* The [https://bioregion.org.uk/project/bioregional-conversations/ Bioregional Conversations]. Action-learning initiative of seven cutting-edge conversations, May - July 2024, to explore the different ways in which bioregioning is taking shape around the world. This small circle of leading bioregional practitioners intends to deepen the learning culture developing around bioregions internationally.\n\n== Near you ==\n\n=== Latin America ===\n\n* [https://sacredheadwaters.org/ Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative], ''added 16:46, 22 March 2022 (UTC)''\n* [https://www.colombiaregenerativa.org/ Regenerative Colombia], \"People, bioregions and organizations co-creating conditions to regenerate life\"\n* [https://www.costaricaregenerativa.org/ Regenerative Costa Rica], bringing together a community with multiple capacities to reflect, plan and activate projects that facilitate the transition towards a regenerative paradigm. Blog: [https://www.costaricaregenerativa.org/blog costaricaregenerativa.org], ''added 10:02, 14 May 2024 (UTC)''\n* [https://www.sinaldovale.org/ Sinal do Vale], Serra da Estrela Bioregion, behind the Guanabara Bay, 50 km from the center of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Video: on [https://www.youtube.com/@sinaldovale2048/videos youtube.com]\n\n=== Europe ===\n\n* Bioregional Weaving Labs, Ashoka, [https://www.ashoka.org/en-nl/program/bioregional-weaving-labs-collective ashoka.org], Currently 8 BWLs established: in Ireland, The Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, France, Austria, Romania and Spain. ''added 20:53, 13 May 2024 (UTC)''\n* [https://bioregion.ie/ Bioregional Weaving Lab - South East Ireland], ''added 13:05, 15 February 2025 (UTC)''\n* [https://burrenbeo.com/ Burrenbeo Trust], landscape charity founded in 2008, dedicated to connecting all of us to our places and our role in caring for them. News: [https://burrenbeo.com/latest/ burrenbeo.com], ''added 08:34, 15 May 2024 (UTC)''\n* [https://resilience.earth/ Resilience Earth], Reviving the Re·Generation of the earth, (Catalonia), \"non-profit change management cooperative, committed to community resilience, regenerative design and the social and solidarity economy as fundamental tools for social, ecological and economic transformation.\" Video: Resilience Earth on [https://www.youtube.com/@resilienceearth845/videos youtube.com]\n* [https://www.luma.org/en/arles/atelierluma/atelier-luma.html Atelier LUMA], Arles, France\n* Mallorca: Since 2010 Daniel Christian Wahl has been working on the long-term plan of establishing the island of Mallorca as a living lab for bioregional regeneration. Read more: Bioregional Regeneration for Planetary Health, [https://medium.com/activate-the-future/bioregional-regeneration-for-planetary-health-6b28e5e14e21 medium.com]\n\n=== UK ===\n\n* [https://bioregion.org.uk/ Bioregional Learning Centre UK], Community Interest Company (CIC) founded in 2017 to serve the people and place of South Devon. Video: Bioregional TV on [https://www.youtube.com/@bioregionaltv1477/videos youtube.com]. Blog: [https://bioregion.org.uk/blog-posts-page/ bioregion.org.uk], UK Bioregional Community of Practice, [https://bioregion.org.uk/project/uk-bioregional-community-of-practice/ bioregion.org.uk]\n* [https://bioregioningtayside.scot/ Bioregioning Tayside], Map, Bioregioning in Tayside, [https://bioregioningtayside.scot/category/bioregioning-projects/ bioregioningtayside.scot], ''added 17:07, 24 November 2023 (UTC)''\n* [https://findhornwatershed.com/ Findhorn Watershed Initiative], \"multi-generational vision to restore a mosaic of nature rich habitats, grow a local culture of nature connection and enable a thriving nature-based economy for the people and places of the Findhorn watershed, from the Monadhliath Mountains to the Moray Firth.\", ''added 08:20, 15 May 2024 (UTC)''\n\n=== Oceania ===\n\n* [https://enlivenedcooperative.org/ Enlivened Cooperative], worker-owned, not-for-profit, eco-social learning organization. (Hawaii). ''added 15:28, 14 May 2024 (UTC)''\n\n=== North America ===\n\n* Terran Collective, [https://www.terran.io/ terran.io], \"We are a collective with a common vision of a world in balance\", San Francisco Bay Area, California.\n* [https://baydelta.org/ Bay Delta Trust], \"a convening and weaving initiative seeking to improve bioregional coordination in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.\" ''added 14:52, 14 May 2024 (UTC)''\n* [https://www.hudsonriverflows.com/ Hudson River Flows], \"collaborative of writers, thinkers, practitioners, visual creatives, and network entrepreneurs writing a new narrative in support of a truly regenerative economic redevelopment of our bioregion.\" Stories form the field, [https://www.hudsonriverflows.com/stories hudsonriverflows.com]\n* Salish Sea Restoration, [https://salishsearestoration.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Salish_Sea_Restoration Salish Sea Wiki]\n* Bioregions mentioned in Appropedia articles:\n** [https://ozarkareacommunitycongress.org/ Ozark Area Community Congress], \"The forested, stream-dissected hills of southern [[Missouri community action|Missouri]] and northern [[Arkansas community action|Arkansas]] form a distinct bioregion known as the Ozarks.\" ''link checked 10:20, 13 July 2023 (UTC)''\n** Mid-Michigan bioregion, [[Michigan community action#Towards sustainable economies|Michigan community action]]\n* [http://salmonnation.net/ Salmon Nation], US-Canada, \"aims to inspire, enable and invest in regenerative development.\"\n* [https://regeneratecascadia.org/ Regenerate Cascadia], 501(c)3 social movement organization developing a long-term bioregional vision and process that works with on-the-ground communities to design and implement new frameworks of governance, ecology, and economy for the regeneration and health of the Cascadia bioregion along the northeast Pacific rim of North America and beyond.\n\n{{Wikipedia excerpt|Cascadia (bioregion)}}\n\n=== Other listings ===\n\n* [https://bioregioning.earth/ Bioregioning Earth], launched August 2026, \"public knowledge base documenting organizations and practices at the frontier of bioregional work — exploring how communities around the world are learning to live and govern within the logic of place. 110 bioregional actors and initiatives currently mapped across 10 themes.\"\n* Bioregional Confluencing 2026, from [https://conference2026.r3-0.org/bioregional-confluencing/ conference2026.r3-0.org], [https://www.r3-0.org/ r3-0.org], ''added 11:06, 5 August 2026 (UTC)''\n* Planet drum has a [https://planetdrum.org/bioregional-resource-directory/ Bioregional Resource Directory] with more extensive listings than here for North America.\n\n== Maps ==\n\n* [https://www.bioregionalmaps.com/ Bioregional Maps], \"An open, community-built atlas of Earth's living regions — watersheds, biomes, climates, and cultures.\" ''added 21:15, 26 August 2026 (UTC)''\n* Bioregions on One Earth, [https://www.oneearth.org/bioregions/ oneearth.org]. The Bioregions 2023 framework utilizes 14 realm divisions – further divided into 52 subrealms, 185 bioregions, and 844 ecoregions – as a framework to better understand the natural world that surrounds us. Navigator, One Earth, [https://www.oneearth.org/navigator/ oneearth.org], ''added 20:36, 13 May 2024 (UTC)''\n* [[Bioregional cookbooks map]]\n\n== Community action projects ==\n\n=== Bioregional mapping ===\n\nBioregional mapping is a powerful tool to increase understanding, change the story and influence policy. A good bioregional map shows layers of geology, flora, fauna, and inhabitation over time. All the interdisciplinary content that is integrated in this kind of map makes it a great communication tool to illustrate an ecological approach. One of the best examples of a richly communicative bioregional map is David McClosky's new map of Cascadia. {{W|Bioregionalism#Overview}}\n\n=== Bioregional cookbook ===\n\n{{Excerpt|How to write a cookbook for your bioregion}}\n\n''see also'': [[Bioregional cookbook]], [[Locally Delicious - The book]]\n\n== Bioregional perspective ==\n\nThe bioregionalist perspective opposes a homogeneous economy and consumer culture with its lack of stewardship towards the environment. This perspective seeks to:\n\n* Ensure that political boundaries match ecological boundaries.\n* Highlight the unique ecology of the bioregion.\n* Encourage consumption of local foods where possible.\n* Encourage the use of local materials where possible.\n* Encourage the cultivation of native plants of the region.\n* Encourage sustainability in harmony with the bioregion. {{W|Bioregionalism#Overview}}\n\n[[File:Doughruagh and Garraun massif from Diamond Hill.jpg]]\n\n== Bioregionalism is proactive ==\n\nAccording to Peter Berg, bioregionalism is proactive, and is based on forming a harmony between human culture and the natural environment, rather than being protest-based like the original environmental movement. Also, while classical environmentalists saw human industry as the enemy of nature and nature as a victim needing to be saved; bioregionalists see humanity and its culture as a part of nature, focusing on building a positive, sustainable relationship with both the sociological and ecological environments, rather than a focus on preserving and segregating the wilderness from the world of humanity. {{W|Bioregionalism#Relationship to environmentalism}}\n\n== About Bioregionalism ==\n\n{{Wikipedia excerpt|Bioregionalism}}\n\n{{Community networks footer}}\n\n'''See also''': [[Arts and culture]], [[Community currencies activism]], [[Ethical consumerism]], [[Food activism]], [[Food activism#Local food|Local food]], [[Food Sovereignty]], [[Free stuff]], [[Getting to know your locality]], [[Getting to know your region]], [[Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle]], [[Resilient communities]], [[Sharing]], [[Community energy]], [[Towards sustainable economies]], [[Urban sustainability]], [[Community land trust]], [[Types of resources]]\n\n{{Localtopic}}\n\n{{CASwiki footer}}\n\n'''External links'''\n\n* Cascadia, Geography of Bioregion, Name, Flag, Images and Maps, [http://cascadia-institute.org/ cascadia-institute.org]\n\n{{Page data\n| keywords = Local economy\n| description = Bioregionalism strengthens local ecosystems. Appropedia explores how community-based living enhances sustainability and regional cooperation.\n}}\n\n[[Category:Sustainable community action topics]]"}