Stories, strategies, and reflections

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.

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 the Copenhagen CoP15 failed so dismally to reach an accord between nation states and pushed civil society out into the cold, those of us working on the front lines of climate change and activism said ‘well that gives civil society a mandate to step up’. And I remind myself that that stepping up has been happening in largely unreported ways ever since.

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.