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
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

Glenn Page

BLC are hugely grateful to Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation who are providing core costs in 2019.

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…
3rd Archimedes Screw Fest
- 3RD ARCHIMEDES SCREW FEST The 3rd Annual Archimedes Screw Fest celebrates the River Dart and its most spectacular new landmarks - the twin turbines of the Totnes Weir hydropower scheme. Event date: 6th October, 2018 Time: 10am-4pm Admission: Free Join us as we...
Let’s Talk Dart
- LET'S TALK DART What does the River Dart dream about...? You’d be forgiven if you hadn’t yet got around to considering this question. Not many people have, and that was the point the Bioregional Learning Centre (BLC) was trying to make at its Pop-Up ‘Lets Talk Dart’...
Bricolage on the Dart
- BRICOLAGE ON THE DART The Flow Partnership's Water Summer School is being run at Dartington on the banks of the River Dart in South Devon in June 2018, drawing attention to the practical water work done by local communities and farmers to protect water in our...
Plastic Pollution
- SOUTH DEVON PLASTIC POLLUTION NETWORK South Hams Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Devon Community Recycling Network (DCRN) and The Bioregional Learning Centre (BLC) have been working with Anna Turns on the issue of single-use plastics. They are forming a...
The Commons
Isabel reports for Transition Network here from the first European Commons Assembly in Brussels, a milestone meeting that saw three policy proposals presented, Democracy as a Commons, Community Land Trusts (housing), and open technology for a Digital Commons. 26...