We’re moving our Genesee Finger Lakes Bioregional Learning Center discussions to Sundays at 7:30 pm, and expanding the range of community leaders invited to take part. Details of the event are listed here: https://earth-regenerators.mn.co/events/genesee-finger-lakes-bioregional-learning-sessions-41314614?instance_index=20230910T133000Z# And the actual meeting link is here. Please RSVP if you would like to join us.
(1) The Great Lakes Bioregional Discussions continue every Monday at 4 pm Eastern, alternating between regular and mapping sessions — see https://earth-regenerators.mn.co/posts/33759155?utm_source=manual for details. (2) The Rochester Area Bioregional Conversations are now the 2nd and 4th Sundays at 9:30 – 11 am — beginning September 10 — see Meeting Link for details.
Interest is growing in the development of a Bioregional Design School / Learning Center for the Genesee Finger Lakes region. Potentially located on a 73-acre campus in Honeoye Falls that was previously a summer camp, the School would be associated with a nature-based fitness, recreation, and educational program for young people that is currently in…
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Building the Bioregional Learning Center On June 22 we’re introducing the idea of building a Bioregional Learning Center. We’ve been talking about it as a “soft launch,” but in reality it’s the beginning of a process to create the Center and design its programs. For details on the event, click here. We’re inviting you to…
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Reprinted from the Pachamama Alliance of the Rochester Area’s Newsletter (April 2023) By Jonathan Cloud Bioregionalism is not a new idea. Arguably, all civilizations prior to our own have lived bioregionally, adapting themselves to local conditions and trading within a limited biogeographic region. Modern civilization, however, as the first to “go global,” has created extensive…
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(1) The Great Lakes Bioregional Discussions continue every Monday at 4 pm Eastern, alternating between regular and mapping sessions — see https://earth-regenerators.mn.co/posts/33759155?utm_source=manual for details. (2) The Rochester Area Bioregional Conversations are now the 2nd and 4th Sundays at 9:30 – 11 am — beginning September 10, 2023 — see https://possiblerochester.org/events for details.
Great Lakes Sub-Basins (Wikipedia) A Turning Point? A recap of recent events — for those who were there, and those who weren’t The Emergence of Bioregional Activation Further to Joe and Penny’s whirlwind visit to the Great Lakes Basin Bioregion — Toronto, Cleveland, and Rochester were all major stops (between January 30 and February 12) —…
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A Vision of Nature in the City – Photo by Danist Soh on Unsplash See the Updated Bioregionalism Post here Rochester Tree Canopy Initiative Meanwhile, our work with our Tree Planting initiative in the City of Rochester is continuing and gathering momentum. We’re working with TeJay Chess of Monroe Cornell Cooperative Extension, the City Forester,…
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More on Joe Brewer’s visit to Rochester, and the context of this work: Joe Brewer and his partner Penny Heiple from the Bioregional Activators Network are coming to the Great Lakes Bioregion, including visits to Toronto, Cleveland, Binghamton, Ithaca, and Rochester. This is an international collaborative effort, drawing on decades of scientific research, to…
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