About
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded to advance bioregional organizing across communities and continents.
About the DepartmentA world of interconnected bioregions.
We advance bioregionalism, the practice of aligning social, economic, and political systems with natural boundaries instead of arbitrary borders.
What it means
To regenerate the future, we organize at the scale of place.
A bioregion is a distinct area with coherent and interconnected plant and animal communities, often defined by a watershed. Aligning human systems with these living boundaries lets communities steward what they know, replace extraction with reciprocity, and build a regenerative future rooted in the unique character of each life-place.
Bioregion. Bioregioning. Bioregional. Bioregionalism. Bioregionalist. Every form of the word names a facet of one practice: knowing and caring for the place where you live.
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How we work
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Four areas of practice.
Bioregionalism
The idea, the practice, the history. Aligning human systems with natural boundaries instead of arbitrary borders.
Read the caseMapping
How we know where we live. Watersheds, ecoregions, Indigenous-led methodologies, GIS, and community atlases.
Map a bioregionBioregions
The growing network of place-based movements: Cascadia, the Turtle Island Bioregional Congress, and others to come.
See the network
Scale, nested
Planet
Continent
Bioregion
From planet to bioregion.
Place is nested. Each scale holds the next.
Ways to live bioregionally
Six practices anyone can begin.
Bioregionalism is not joined; it is practiced. These are starting points, universal across places, organization-agnostic.
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Learn your watershed
Trace the water from your tap back to its source, and from your drain forward to the ocean. Then walk a stretch of it.
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Walk the land
Pick a place near home and visit it across the seasons. Notice what changes, what stays, what arrives, what leaves.
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Know the names
Learn five native plants, five native animals, and the language and lineage of the Indigenous nation whose homelands you live on.
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Source bioregional
When you can, choose food, materials, and energy that come from your bioregion. Know the people and places they came from.
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Map something
Make a map. Of your block, your watershed, your community's stories. Maps are how a place becomes legible to the people in it.
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Show up for place
Attend a council meeting, a watershed council, an Indigenous-led action. Bioregioning is not a private practice; it is civic.
Founded 2019. Rooted in Cascadia. Building infrastructure for bioregional movements worldwide.