by Isabel Carlisle | Dec 14, 2021 | Learning series
The challenges that we face as a species today are systemic and global: think climate change, species extinction, failing freshwater resources, pandemic. At bioregional scale the response is systemic and local. An easy thing to say but not so easy in do in practice....
by Isabel Carlisle | Nov 29, 2021 | Learning series
Doughnut Economics, advocated by Kate Raworth, is a brilliant model that makes visible just how intertwined natural global systems (such as water or biodiversity) are with the social foundations of our societies. Designing an operating system for the Doughnut that...
by Isabel Carlisle | Nov 15, 2021 | Learning series
CoP26 is over and the future looks a little less bright in the world of international diplomacy for averting more than 1.5 degrees of global warming. At times like this, I stop and ask myself ‘so what’s the project now, has it changed, what has been revealed?’. When...
by Isabel Carlisle | Nov 1, 2021 | Learning series
Bioregions are a framework for being human that is invisible and everywhere at the same time. We all live in a bioregion, just as we all live in places on this earth with a distinct identity: high desert, river valley, ocean city, tundra village, low-lying metropolis....