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A bioregion invites us to inhabit a place in a way that is full of relationship. Seeing where the natural boundaries of our bioregion are, we can then see the many ecosystems and human systems alive within it. All of these systems like fresh water and biodiversity or transport and health are connected. There is also a connecting story that starts in deep geological time, shows up in the landscape and soil and then in human culture."
Isabel Carlisle, 2021, Bioregional Learning Centre
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Bioregioning is a practice, a journey of connection, learning, and action. Seeing systems is a vital aspect of bioregioning—a many-sided skill that asks us to both 'work at the edges' and 'see the whole'. There is no separation between human systems and ecosystems, bioregioning brings them together. Nor is there privilege; of one kind of ‘knowing’ over another. Science and art, community action and policy-making go hand in hand.
Isabel Carlisle, 2021, Bioregional Learning Centre
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The Greek root "bio" means life. A bioregion is your life place, that connects all life in your place. If you're thinking whole-system, then ideas like "individual wellbeing" are a contradiction in terms. "I" can't be okay unless "we" are okay (family, community), and we can't be okay unless the life systems around us are okay. This is ecopsychosocial wellbeing, encompassed in a bioregion. Starting with local watersheds, a bioregion is defined through the geology, ecology, and culture (including Indigenous history) of a specific place. As Peter Berg wrote, a bioregion is both a "geographic terrain and a terrain of consciousness”.
Susan Bosak: bioregionalearth.org
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Bioregioning is the active, ongoing practice of reinhabiting place — learning to live in ways that are deeply attuned to the ecological, cultural, and historical realities of a bioregion. It’s about becoming native to a place through attention, relationship, and reciprocity…
Where bioregionalism offers the conceptual framework — the maps, principles, and values of living within ecological boundaries — bioregioning is the verb: the situated, experimental, and often messy work of translating those ideas into lived reality…
Bioregioning involves weaving together community, ecology, and economy at a scale that makes resilience and regeneration possible…
It is both repair and reimagination — tending to the wounds of disconnection and extraction, while also co-creating futures rooted in mutual care between human and more-than-human communities.
Bioregions, Dark Matter Labs
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Bioregionalism is a philosophy that suggests that political, cultural, and economic systems are more sustainable and just if they are organized around naturally defined areas called bioregions (similar to ecoregions). Bioregions are defined through physical and environmental features, including watershed boundaries and soil and terrain characteristics. Bioregionalism stresses that the determination of a bioregion is also a cultural phenomenon, and emphasizes local populations, knowledge, and solutions.
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