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Principles for Community-Centred Climate Adaptation
As we at the Bioregional Learning Centre move towards this summer’s Learning Journey on climate adaptation in the South Hams, we’ve been thinking carefully about how we want to move within the space of this complicated topic and what principles we want to hold...
Opening the conversation on local Climate Adaptation
Thanks to funding from South Hams District Council (SHDC), the Bioregional Learning Centre is now embarking on a collaborative project with Sustainable South Hams (SusSH) to raise awareness of climate adaptation and show communities how they can plan ahead. In...
A cold but valuable learning experience
Earlier this month, Schumacher College's Ecological Design Thinking class joined BLC, Saltmarsh Project team members, Natural England's Simon Tame and Sharpham Director Julian Carnell on a unique learning experience at Sharpham. They met down at the reedbeds to...
Seeing saltmarshes for their real value
A conversation with Nigel Mortimer, Estuaries Officer at South Devon National Landscape. Nigel is a key member of the project team for Living Dart: The Saltmarsh Project. Tell us a bit about your background and how you acquired all this knowledge about...
What’s art got to do with it?
A conversation with local artist and collaborator Ivan Grieve. Ivan is one of five local artists participating in Phase 2 of Living Dart: The Saltmarsh Project. After an introduction to the saltmarshes surveyed by the project team in and around Totnes, Dittisham and...
Step forward the Regeneration Activator
Deshkan Ziibi Conservation Impact Bond model (source DZCIB Story Map)Part 3 of Bioregions as a Framework of ValueThis is the third and last in our series of blogs that explore landscape-scale regeneration and how it can be accelerated. It is also a synthesis of our...
Learning, not diamond-class carbon markets, is the bridge to landscape scale regeneration
Fig 1. An example map showing indicators to track towards regenerative goals. Drawn from work by the Bioregional Learning Centre, Devon. Part Two of Bioregions as a Framework of ValueIn our last blog — a survey of our current climate change predicament and the role of...
What does ‘regenerative investment’ mean now that Gaia is changing the rules of the game?
Source: StatisticaThat we live in a world of momentous upheaval and rapid change is not news. What is unprecedented is the scale to which climate change is upending long-held assumptions about how our societies and economies function, including our geo-political...
The bioregional vision of Donella Meadows
The bioregional vision of Donella (Dana) Meadows has been a guiding one for the Bioregional Learning Centre in South Devon. To mark our five-year anniversary we are publishing it here for the first time, with permission from the Academy for Systems Change that...
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