What We Do
- Make our invisible local webs of life support systems (food, energy,
water, fibre, waste removal) visible and valued - Create strong containers for multi-sector dialogue that builds a
new story of our sustainable future - Work with communities to map their assets and plan for long-term
sustainable economies and ecologies - Operate as a backbone organisation to connect and support
organisations of all kinds, as well as communities, on this journey - Open up learning pathways for schools, colleges and universities,
inviting real-world problem-solving - Seek out opportunities to practice regenerative design for whole-systems change, telling a new story of place
The Way we Work
- Advocate for working at bioregional scale and for sustainability is
all aspects of how this place organises itself - Collaborate in design of powerful creative engagement
processes, tools and events - Lead stakeholder mapping with the purpose of building
collaborative teams for systems change - Conduct citizen-voice interviews to hear first-hand peoples’ needs
as well as dreams - Integrate interdisciplinary ways of working
If you see foam floating down the river, sediment building up from run-off, a cracked and dangerous pavement, unloved trees full of apples or a roof that would benefit from solar panels is there a clear, productive, participatory and satisfying course of action for you to take? We should all see small but positive roles for ourselves in resolving things that currently are handled by 'someone else'.
Environment Agency flood defence work in Totnes is underway, some consisting of adding a few inches to walls near the river...