Jo from CoLab Dudley’s team recommends this episode from The Great Simplification podcast in which Daniel Christian Wahl talks about bioregioning. This is suggested foundational listening.
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The term “territorial consciousness” is helpful in not feeling bound to strict lines on a map, though many practicing bioregioning will use a watershed map as their boundaries. Also welcome was the repeated use of a ‘participatory worldview’ as another way to name our entanglement with all life, but with a greater sense of accountability. (Entanglement feels like a descriptor or statement of fact, where as a participatory worldview makes clear the need to be active in the aliveness of our bioregion). The podcast link very generously has all the links mentioned by Daniel which is super helpful sharing.
Jo Orchard-Webb, CoLab Dudley team
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Here you can find some of Daniel Christian Wahl’s writing on bioregioning.
Bioregioning: the defining practice of regenerative cultures
This is a lovely podcast episode from Frontiers of Commoning with David Bollier. An interview with Isabel Carlisle of Bioregional Learning Centre. **
Isabel Carlisle, Bioregioning as a Response to 'Gaia on the Move'
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As climate change and other crises makes the economy and everyday life more precarious, innovative forms of bioregional action are needed to respond to 'Gaia on the move," says Isabel Carlisle, founder and director of the Bioregional Learning Centre (BLC) in Devon, England. Carlisle describes the importance of building local ecological expertise, participation, and institutions to build community resilience in the years ahead, especially because centralized nation-states will not be able to do the job. The BLC is part of a growing worldwide interest in 'bioregioning' - activism, projects, and philosophical shifts to build a new type of socio-ecological economy.
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From What If to What Next: What if we could reimagine the world in bioregions? This podcast from Rob Hopkins features experienced bioregioning advocates imagining a future world where we have embraced bioregioning.
93 - What if we could reimagine the world in bioregions?
The work of Berg and Dasmann (1977) on reinhabitance is often seen as being core to the why and how conversations of bioregioning.
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Reinhabitation involves developing a bioregional identity, something most North Americans have lost or have never possessed. We define bioregion in a sense different from the biotic provinces of Raymond Dasmann (1973) or the biogeographical province of Miklos Udvardy. The term refers both to geographical terrain and a terrain of consciousness—to a place and the ideas that have developed about how to live in that place. Within a bioregion, the conditions that influence life are similar, and these, in turn, have influenced human occupancy.
Peter Berg and ecologist Raymond Dasmann in their 1977 article Reinhabiting California
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