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Regenerative Community Development Initiatives for the Greater Rochester Region

STAMP Is the Wrong Project in the Wrong Place

Western New York does need economic development. It needs good jobs, resilient communities, and a future aligned with ecological reality. But the Science, Technology and Advanced Manufacturing Park, or STAMP, in Genesee County has become a case study in how not to pursue that future. What is being advanced there is not careful regional planning.…
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Don’t Slow New York’s Climate Law: It Won’t Lower Costs, and It Will Raise the Price of Delay

New York is approaching a consequential decision in its FY 2026-27 budget talks. Governor Kathy Hochul has proposed changing the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) by weakening or delaying its 2030 requirements, and recent reporting indicates that climate-law changes have become a sticking point in the budget’s closed-door negotiations. At the same time,…
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Our Land Acknowledgment

We begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral lands of the Haudenosaunee and other Indigenous peoples who have cared for this land for countless generations.  We acknowledge the suffering and displacement they have endured, and we recognize the ongoing challenges they face. At the same time, we celebrate their wisdom, their deep relationship…
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New Genesee Finger Lakes Bioregional Initiative

We’re bringing grassroots bioregional organizing to the GFL — to increase resiliency, self-sufficiency, and local food and economic sovereignty. We seek to link many organizations together, to weave a tapestry of regeneration across the Genesee Finger Lakes. We’re not asking any of these organizations to change what they are doing, but rather bringing a holistic,…
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Concerned about New Nuclear in NY? Attend the People’s Meeting in Syracuse Sept 30, 11 a.m.

Nuclear is Not Clean or Green! I’m writing with regards to the Governor’s upcoming secret and exclusionary meeting with top nuclear industry officials in Syracuse at the Marriott Downtown. On September 30th, outside of the meeting, we’ll be hosting a “Peoples’ meeting” on nuclear energy. We would love to invite your members, networks, and communities…
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A Threat to the Entire Great Lakes Basin: Enbridge Line 5

The Great Lakes, which contain over 20% of the world’s fresh surface water, are not only an ecological treasure but also a vital resource for more than 40 million people in the United States and Canada. Yet this precious ecosystem faces a looming threat: Enbridge’s Line 5. Constructed in 1953, Line 5 is an aging…
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1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People: Supporting the Landscape and Bioregional Movement

(Loess Plateau, Before and After—https://www.allcreation.org/home/regrowing-loess-plateau) This was a wonderful session where Tom Miewald shared an overview of the work that takes place through 1000 Landscapes for A Billion People and how we can partner in significant ways with the Design School for Regenerating Earth. Go here to learn more about 1000 Landscapes: https://landscapes.global/ Go here…
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Invitation to Join a Learning Journey on Bioregional Organizing

The Design School for Regenerating Earth is launching a six-month learning journey on organizing your bioregion, beginning March 18, 2025. We’re inviting you to join a number of the world’s experts and leading activists in this inspiring and rapidly growing new movement. Join us for a learning journey on organizing our bioregion. We can create…
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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

(Please note that calls have been suspended at this time. For information on our bioregional organizing activities, please contact Victoria Zelin-Cloud at 908-507-3150) 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, 2023 — and to share this excellent 10-min video…
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