by Nick Paling | Dec 20, 2018 | Commons, Environment, Litter, Stewardship
– 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....
by Nick Paling | Dec 17, 2018 | Environment, Stewardship
– 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...
by Nick Paling | Oct 8, 2018 | Environment, Stewardship
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...
by Nick Paling | Sep 21, 2018 | Environment, Litter
"...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...
by Nick Paling | Sep 7, 2018 | Commons, Environment, Litter, Stewardship
BLC BLOG – 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:...
by Nick Paling | Jun 21, 2018 | Environment, Stewardship
BLC BLOG – 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...
by Nick Paling | Jun 21, 2018 | Environment, Stewardship
BLC BLOG – 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...
by Nick Paling | Jun 19, 2018 | Environment, Litter
BLC BLOG – 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...
by admin | Dec 8, 2016 | 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...
