Category: Bioregional

Regenerative Community Development Initiatives for the Greater Rochester Region

The 7-Generation Bioregional Earth Summit, Feb. 5-10, 2024

Details & Free Registration  The 7-Generation Bioregional Earth Summit, organized by the Legacy Project in collaboration with the Design School for Regenerating Earth and the Indigenous Environmental Institute at Trent University, focuses on regenerating the future. The summit acknowledges ecological and cultural overshoot, emphasizing whole systems transformation across generations and bioregions. Unlike traditional conferences, it…
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Growing Our Bioregional Learning Center

Further to our exhilarating meeting last month, we’re writing to invite you to this month’s online gathering, at 7:30 pm Sunday, December 17 — and to share this excellent 10-min video from Joe Brewer, that succinctly describes the role of a Bioregional Learning Center: For those of you who were present for Joe’s riveting and paradigm-shifting talks…
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Special Invitation to Join Us in Designing a Future for our Bioregion

  We’re launching a new series of monthly conversations with Ari Freedman-Weiss, envisioning a bioregional learning center located on his 73-acre property in Honeoye Falls. The conversations will be held via Zoom on the third Sunday of the month, the next being December 17. Details are below.   In addition, we’re looking at a different…
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Bioregional Learning Center Call — Sunday, October 22, 2023, 7:30 pm

For those interested in the Bioregional Learning Center, here’s a short note about our next call, and a couple of resources that seem important to share.    7:30-9 pm, Oct 22 – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8283857296?pwd=Z2VZMjdwRGxrbXNKbmdZSFBDaVFnUT09   Here are some of the immediate opportunities we see for working with Ari’s property to develop a land-based education center that views…
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Moving our Bioregional Learning Center Discussions Forward

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.

Continuing the Bioregional Conversations

(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 Grows in Bioregional Learning Center

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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Bioregional Potluck Garden Party Thursday, June 22, 5:30-8:30 pm – Hosted by A Frog House

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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Our Bioregional Future

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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Continuing the Bioregional Conversations

(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.

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