Bioregional Education
- By Frank Traina. Home! A Bioregional Reader.
Bioregional education, argues Frank Traina, must be fully integrated, lifelong, and “revolutionary in its content and method.”
Building a Bioregional, Sustainable Alternative
- By Doug Aberley. Home! A Bioregional Reader.
A ten-step process for reaching the ultimate goal: “to provide the means by which existing structures of governance and development will be reformed, and eventually replaced by those based on bioregional principles.”
Organizing a Bioregional Congress
- By David Haenke. Home! A Bioregional Reader.
Detailed instructions for each step of planning and executing a bioregional congress, from selecting representatives and sending out invitations to keeping the momentum going after the event is over.
Sexism, Racism and the Land
- By Milo Guthrie. Home! A Bioregional Reader.
This excerpt from notes on a workshop at North American Bioregional Congress III provides some definitions and thoughts on ecofeminism, colonialism, and racism.
One Town’s All-Species Day
- By Chris Wells. Home! A Bioregional Reader.
Chris Wells discusses the communal, collaborative event known as All-Species Day. He believes that this sort of “creatively contagious collaborative project” gives hope to kids and communities at large, an essential condition for positive change. He describes the many components that make up an All-Species Day event, using the one held in Santa Fe in 1988 as a specific example, and explains how holidays and commemorations articulate community values.
