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In no particular order except that
mostly it all started here...
Planet
Drum Foundation
PO Box 31251, San Francisco, CA 94131,
Shasta Bioregion, USA,
415-285-6563,
click
here,
http://www.planetdrum.org
Founded in 1973 by Peter Berg, et
al. Publishers of the Planet Drum
Pulse, source for speakers, workshops,
and forums on bioregional themes.
Assists in organizing bioregional
groups. Provides online calendar for
Bioregional events. Sells bioregional
books, pamphlets, and periodicals.
Supports Bioregional Energy Exchange,
a program to help small-scale producers
using sustainable and recycled matrerials
find markets and friends. One of the
programs is Arte Papel, a small Ecuadoran
women's paper recycling association
that uses natural fibers and colorants
to produce beautiful stationery.
Also recommended: http://www.planetdrum.org/green_thriving.htm
For a detailed and extensive list of North American permaculture and bioregional links click here.
produced by Jacqueline Froelich, hosted by Pete Hartman. Fayetteville, AR.: KUAF National Public Radio, 2002. A 29 minute NPR report of the bioregional congress featuring Judy Goldhaft, David Haenke, Stephanie Mills, Gene Marshall, Alberto Ruz, Anna Diaz, and many others.
Listen to an mp3 audio from this event. (26.4MB)
Voice of the Turtle, newsletter of the Continental Bioregional Congress is available in PDF format (3MB) here.
Check
out Salmon
Nation's page of bioregional
resource links.
Salmon Nation is a community of
caretakers and citizens that stretches
across arbitrary boundaries and
bridges urban-rural divides. We
bring new meaning to the word cooperative
— with unusual alliances of
tribes, fishermen, farmers, ranchers,
loggers, and urban-dwellers working
together to improve our neighborhoods
and watersheds.
The
Community Solution is a program
of Community Service, Inc. Community
Service is dedicated to the development,
growth and enhancement of small local
communities. We envision a country where
the population is distributed in small
communities that are sustainable, diverse
and culturally sophisticated. Community
Service was founded by Arthur E. Morgan,
educator, businessman and executive.
He was the first president of the TVA
and the president of Antioch University.
We host the annual U.S. Conference on
Peak Oil and Community Solutions. We
also produced the powerful and DVD documentary,
"The
Power of Community – How Cuba
Survived Peak Oil," The Community Solution, P. O. Box 243, Yellow Springs, OH 45387 937-767-2161 or, toll-free 866-767-2161 Email us at info@communitysolution.org http://www.communitysolution.org/
Gaia
University offers international students
accredited Bachelors and Master degrees
as well as graduate Diplomas through
a pioneering educational concept.
The self-directed, action learning
methodology allows you to combine
short residential courses with home-based
project work while being supported
by a professional network of advisors,
tutors, mentors and workshop providers.
You combine your ideals with practical
experience to promote local and global
sustainability, regeneration, justice
and peace.
2007-8 programs in Brazil, Oregon and Tennessee USA and Germany in Integrative Ecosocial Design, Open Topic (Independent Study) and Organizing Learning for Earth Regeneration (Regional Development of Gaia University). Unfold your passions in any areas of Sustainabilty/Regeneration from Bioregionalism to Permaculture, Ecovillage Design, Post Petroleum Energy Descent Planning, Holistic Health, Ancient Wisdom and more. www.gaiauniversity.org
The
Permaculture Activist
PO Box 5516, Bloomington, IN 47407
USA 812-335-0383 USA
Peter
Bane, publisher (teacher, designer/consultant
with Patterns
for Abundance in partnership
with Keith Johnson)
Ph: int +1 (828) 298-2812 Fax: int
+1 (828) 298-6441
http://www.permacultureactivist.net
keith@permacultureactivist.net
Regenerative design for all bioregions.
http://www.bioregionalismus.online.ms/
Leif-Thorsten Kramps, Lohmannstr. 3, 58119 Hohenlimburg, Bioregion Sauerland
http://www.environment.gov.au/bg/nrs/ibraimcr/ibra_95/ibra_big.gif.
Also, The Web Incorporated is a bioregional organization in Australia working toward development through the Brisbane Regional Environmental Council and Forest ANA Queensland.
Eco-Bahia can be reached by contacting , , or
http://www.bahiacity.com/spanish/
HUEHUECOYOTL
ECOVILLAGE, ECOALDEA HUEHUECOYOTLAPARTADO 111, TEPOZTLAN, MORELOS 62520, MEXICO
(739) 395-5021 (5015)
http://www.laneta.apc.org/rem/huehue.htm
Permaculture ecovillage and home of the The Illuminated Elephants Traveling Gypsy Theatre.
Post
Carbon Institute, 3683
West Fourth Avenue, Vancouver, British
Columbia V6R 1P2.
Tel (604) 736-9000 Fax (604) 736-9001
Initiated by Julian Darley, author
of High Noon for Natural Gas:
the New Energy Crisis and co-author
of the forthcoming Relocalize
Now! Getting Ready for Climate Change
and the End of Cheap Oil..
Post Carbon Institute is a think,
action and education tank offering
research, project tools, education
and information to implement proactive
strategies to adapt to an energy
constrained world.
The
Relocalization Network
supports Local Post Carbon Groups
as they work to develop and implement
the strategy of Relocalization in
their communities. The Relocalization
Network Coordinators support the
Network by providing on-line communication
tools, developing valuable resources,
facilitating meaningful and useful
connections between Local Groups
and cultivating a sense of working
together globally on local responses.
Julian is also co-creator of http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/
GIobalPublicMedia
is part of a response to the difficulties
that both public and profit-making
news and other media have when trying
to offer analysis and understanding
which is not driven by the need
to 'entertain', increase ratings,
save money, make profit and satisfy
shareholders.
Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) http://www.gaia.org and http://www.ecovillage.org
Balancing
the scales: Managing biodiversity
at the bioregional levelBook Review at http://biodiv.wri.org/pubs_foreword.cfm?PubID=2404
Also: What are the characteristics of bioregional management? http://wri.igc.org/biodiv/b014b-bts.html
PROBEA(
Proyecto Bio-regional de Educación
Ambiental / Bioregional Environmental
Education Project): SUCCESSFUL BINATIONAL
& BIOREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATIONby Greg Bloom, FronteraNorteSur Editor
Report at http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/jun01/feat1.html
LifePlace:
Bioregional Thought and Practice by
Robert L. Thayer, Jr. Book review
at: http://www.greenmarketreport.com/books/lifeplace.phpIn a narrative rich with the essence of the Sacramento Valley, Thayer crafts a compelling argument for a life lived closer to the earth. He begins this evocative book--which is part memoir, part lifestyle manual--by describing his home of the last 30 years as "a mail-order spouse whom I would grow to appreciate, then love."
Memorandum of Understanding: California's Coordinated Regional Strategy to Conserve Biological Diversity "The Agreement on Biological Diversity" at http://ceres.ca.gov/biodiv/mou.html
The
California Biodiversity Council (CBC)
http://ceres.ca.gov/biodiversity/
was formed in 1991 to improve coordination
and cooperation between the various
resource management and environmental
protection organizations at federal,
state, and local levels.
California Environmental Resources
Evaluation System http://ceres.ca.gov/
Sense Of Place, article at: http://www.conservationeconomy.net/content.cfm?PatternID=13
a project of 
Toward a Bioregional State (blog by Mark Whitaker) http://biostate.blogspot.com/
Launched to provide an information service connected with Toward a Bioregional State, the book; the blog is the commentary, your questions and my answers, and news from around the world related to the issues of sustainability and unsustainability in a running muse on various issues of concern or inspiration.
Riparian
Habitat Joint Venture, a project currently
underway which protects biodiversity
and enhance natural resources as well
as the human element they support.
Report at:http://www.prbo.org/calpif/htmldocs/rhjv/
What's
a bioregion?
Here's a watershed region that includes
Cleveland, a whole bunch of water,
and quite a few beings. Good mapping
and lots of it, too. Beautiful website
http://www.ecocitycleveland.org/aboutus/accomplish-2001.html
http://www.ecocitycleveland.org/smartgrowth/bioplan/what_bioregion.html
The
MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY
CENTER is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to protecting and restoring
the outstanding natural environment
and cultural values of Mount Shasta.
One of the sacred mountains
of the world, and of its surrounding
bioregion, recognizing this region
is of great importance locally,
nationally and internationally in
providing pure waters to the Sacramento
Valley, rich biodiversity, numerous
pristine natural sanctuaries, and
sacred areas of high significance
to Native American cultures near
and far.http://www.mountshastaecology.org/01about.html
THE
ECOLOGY CENTER, INC.
801 Sherwood Street, Suite B, Missoula,
MT 59802
phone: 406-728-5733
fax: 406-728-9432
http://www.wildrockies.org/TECI/
A thing is right when it tends to
preserve the integrity, stability,
and beauty of the biotic community.
It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
--Aldo Leopold
Ecology
Center · 2530 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
tel: 510-548-2220 · fax: 510-548-2240
·
http://www.ecologycenter.org/
Realistic
Living, 3578 N. State Highway 78,
Bonham, TX 75418
http://www.RealisticLiving.org/
Write
Where You Are: Transformation Through
the Spoken and Written Word, Caryn
Mirriam-Goldberg, Ph.D. http://www.writewhereyouare.org/
In 1990, at the North American Bioregional Congress in Maine, the Water Committeee decided to give thanks to the water. We continue this practice of thanksgiving through a project we have named "Awakening the Planetary Healer Within"
In its role as water advocate, the National Water Center strives to look at water with the broadest ideas of ecological balance and harmony. Supporting appropriate technology, bioregionalism, composting toilets, dowsing, ecology, flow forms, stream monitoring, vibrational water, watershed planning; we welcome articles on these subjects at this site.
Particularly
note WaterWorks http://www.nationalwatercenter.org/WaterWorks.htm
for a complete 50 pages of Water
and Bioregionalism. Excellent!
www.urbanharvest.org
Working with Gardens and Orchards
to Build Healthy CommunitiesBob Randall (bob@urbanharvest.org)
713-880-5540 Fax # 713-880-5545
1900 Kane St., Houston, 77007
Urban Harvest P.O. Box 980460 Houston, Texas 77098-0460
Ecological
Cities ProjectRutherford H. Platt
c/o Dept. of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
(413) 545-2499 http://www.ecologicalcities.org
The Ecological Cities Project is a quasi-independent program of research, teaching, and outreach.
Founded in 1999, the program seeks to promote sharing of knowledge and experience among disciplines, sectors, and urban regions regarding new approaches to urban greenspace creation and management.
River
Network is a national nonprofit
organization working for clean and healthy
waters. While rivers are our focal point,
we are interested in the quality of
all fresh waters and the health of all
people and ecosystems dependent upon
them. We are unique among national organizations,
because our very reason for being is
to support grassroots groups working
for watershed protection.
Our headquarters are in Portland, Oregon, where River Network was founded in 1988. Our staff members are based in Oregon, Idaho, Vermont, North Carolina and Washington, DC. We work from coast to coast.
GET
is a network to help local businesses
and customers to "vote with your
dollars" for people, planet, and
profit. Chris Lowry, Director, is an
entrepreneur who has created and managed
both independent media production businesses
and non-profit organizations.
Proceedings
of the North American Bioregional
Congresses
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