Consensus
- By Caroline Estes. Home! A Bioregional Reader.
Using examples ranging from Quaker meetings to Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, Caroline Estes explores the consensus model of decision-making. She outlines how the process actually works, and explains why operating under the belief that every group member holds some part of the truth leads to better decisions and more effective groups.
Sustaining Bioregional Groups: The KAW Experience
- By Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg. Home! A Bioregional Reader.
Starting bioregional groups is easy, but sustaining them long-term is another matter. Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, a leader in Kansas Area Watershed bioregional organizing, offers some of her wisdom about how to manage it, including how the earth itself can serve as a model. True and ongoing community-building is essential, she argues, because “bioregionalism is the common book of the future we write together.”
Welcome Home!
- By The North American Bioregional Congress. Home! A Bioregional Reader.
A statement of the core principles of bioregionalism, created at the first North American Bioregional Congress in 1984 and reaffirmed at NABC II and III. “We have to become guardians of the places where we live.”
