ECOLOGY
Engaging and empowering citizens to care for their environment and to work at whole-systems level.
ARTS
Giving local people a greater sense of belonging and opening up the question of what it means to be a citizen of this place.
ECONOMY
Promoting sustainable, low-carbon enterprise in this region as part of a long-term resilience strategy
LEARNING
Creating a learning region that offers direct & enjoyable experiences of ‘real-world problem-solving’ to people of all ages
DISCOVER OUR PROJECTS
MEET THE TEAM
The Bioregional Learning Centre is the brain-child of Isabel Carlisle and, since it’s formation in 2017, the team has been growing into a multi-skilled and passionate group of people who are all deeply committed to protect and improve the South Devon Bioregion and others all around the world…
Isabel Carlisle
Jane Brady
Josh Levene
BLC are hugely grateful to Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation who provided core costs in 2018.
BLC are hugely grateful to be supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery in 2019.
RECENT HAPPENINGS
Catch-up on all the latest news, opinion, blogs and activities happening in the South Devon Bioregion…
Emergency – who calls it?
In his excellent article about Resilience, Michael Lerner emphasizes the importance of relevant, practical and local actions and points out that it is emergency planning that brings people together across political, cultural, sectarian, and ethnic lines. Thinking...
Common Sense
We have been having some lively interactions with some lovely academic researchers recently. The common ground is that we all want impact goals that are truly transformational. Our approach is to start in-place, have conversations and get all sectors talking to one...
BLC Annual Review
- BLC ANNUAL REVIEW 2018 Bioregional Learning Centre is delighted to have published their 2018 Annual Review - it tells the story of a hugely exciting 2nd year for the Centre and gives some tantalising clues about what's coming in the year ahead. Let's just say that...
Research Studies Are Like Truffles
- RESEARCH STUDIES ARE LIKE TRUFFLES BLC recently participated in an experience that was so much more than a workshop. FoAM is a network of transdisciplinary labs at the intersection of art, science, nature and everyday life. Their most recent UK AccessLab paired...
Oxford Real Farming Conference
- OXFORD REAL FARMING CONFERENCE BLC will be playing a key role at the 2019 Oxford Real Farming Conference. Isabel Carlisle will be chairing a panel discussion on 'Bioregions: a powerful way to reconnect people to land’ at this always lively event in early January...
“…and the fun is still going around…”
- "...AND THE FUN IS STILL GOING AROUND..." Four hundred tiny pieces of extruded black plastic poured out from the hula hoop I had just slit open. You could see they had been cut by hand because they were all different lengths. Someone, somewhere, chops them up, day...