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	Bioregional democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This movement is variously called bioregional democracy, watershed cooperation, or bioregional representation, or one of various other similar names—all of which denote democratic control of a natural commons and local jurisdictional dominance in any economic developmental path decisions—while not removing more generalized civil rights protections of a larger national state.
		Particularly within the frameworks of proposals in the Bioregional State, ecoregions or watersheds aid in faciliation of the innate "ecological self-interest" of people to avoid externalities in human health, ecology, or economic relations that are impressed upon people living in a particular ecological area by informal politics guided from larger state frameworks.
		The Bioregional Revolution movement is a new organization (circa 2004) promoting bioregionalism, permaculture, local currencies, and nonviolence in response to "peak oil" and other converging problems they claim we are likely to see in the 21st century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bioregionalism (1258 words)

	IC Web Site: Communities Directory: Article - Bioregionalism and Community: A Call to Action
		One bioregion is distinguished from another by characteristics of flora, fauna, water, climate, rocks, soils, land forms, and the hum an settlements, cultures, and communities these characteristics have spawned.
		Bioregionalism is a comprehensive "new" way of defining and understanding the place where we live, and living in that place sustainably and respectfully.
		The periodic bioregional gatherings are presently evolving a theory of integrated systems: ecologically based economics, agriculture, forestry, technology, law, governance, politics, education, health care, energy, and everything necessary for the human d imension of a given bioregion to function sustainably.
	www.ic.org /pnp/cdir/1995/21haenke.php (1516 words)

	Bioregionalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bioregionalism is a call to become knowledgeable guardians of the places where we live.
		Bioregionalism is a call to get to know our local land and water; our local weather and sky; our local plants and animals; our local neighbors and communities.
		Two excellent resources for bioregionalism are permaculture and asset-based community development.
	www.co-intelligence.org /P-bioregionalism.html (329 words)

	Bioregionalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bioregions are geographic areas having common characteristics of soil, watershed, climate, native plants and animals that exist within the whole planetary biosphere as unique and contributive parts.
		A bioregion can be determined initially by use of climatology, physiography, animal and plant geography, natural history and other descriptive resonance among living things and the factors that influence them which occurs specifically within each separate part of the planet.
		A bioregion (bio = life) is a geographic area whose boundaries are set by nature, distinguishable from other areas by characteristics such as plants, animals, watersheds, climate, landforms, soils, and the human settlements and cultures shaped by these characteristics.
	conspiritu.org /earth/concepts/bioregionalism (2511 words)

	Neahtawanta Center, Synapse 39: Bioregionalism and Ecological Economics
		One bioregion is distinguished from another by characteristics of flora, fauna, water, climate, rocks, soils, landforms, and the human settlements and cultures these characteristics have given rise to.
		Bioregionalism is a comprehensive "new" way of defining and understanding the place where we live, and of living there sustainably and respectfully.
		Bioregionalism is the most ecological of systems of social organization, excepting the life ways of native and indigenous peoples who still live traditionally in intact ecosystems.
	www.nrec.org /synapse39/haenke.html (4388 words)

	Bioregionalism
		Bioregionalism opposes the movement toward a global economy, seeking instead to foster local and largely self-sufficient economies adapted to the particular land and climate.
		Bioregionalism opposes the large, centralized nation-state, which tends to limit local determination and citizen input while increasing the political and military power of those running the government and the economic power of large corporations.
		Bioregionalism is concerns the way individuals live their lives, including, for instance, how they procure their food and deal with their garbage.
	www.uwosh.edu /faculty_staff/barnhill/Bioregionalism/Bioregionalism.html (2335 words)

	The Place and the Story: Bioregionalism and Ecopsychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bioregionalism is one of four socio-philosophical movements that could be characterized as "radical ecology" movements, the other three being deep ecology, ecofeminism and social ecology (with socialist ecology a possible fifth).
		These cultures are clearly bioregional in their explicit sense of rootedness in the land, and have been gently offering a radical critique of Eurocentric arrogance ever since the time of Columbus and the Conquest.
		Part of the bioregional agenda is to raise consciousness about plants and animals that are native and therefore sustainably adapted to the regional environment.
	www.svn.net /rmetzner/ecopsych.html (4072 words)

	Bioregionalism (a definition) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The concept of a bioregion as the basic location where people live, and the practice of reinhabitation of that life-place by its residents, are necessary to rejoin human beings into the overall web of life.
		A bioregion is defined in terms of the unique overall pattern of natural characteristics that are found in a specific place.
		Bioregionalism utilizes them to accomplish three main goals: 1) restore and maintain local natural systems; 2) practice sustainable ways to satisfy basic human needs such as food, water, energy, housing, and materials; and 3) support the work of reinhabitation.
	www.diggers.org /freecitynews/_disc1/00000017.htm (1098 words)

	Bioregionalism
		Bioregionalism is a fancy name for living a rooted life.
		Bioregional boundaries are usually not rigid, and often differ from political borders around counties, states, provinces and nations.
		Bioregionalism is not about deprivation or severely limiting your choices.
	www.greatriv.org /bioreg.htm (1637 words)

	Urban Ecology Australia - Bioregionalism: A Context for Sustainable Patterns of Living
		Bioregionalism has often been linked with the various forms of land use associated with Indigenous groups and Urban Ecology adopted the term Tandanya Bioregion as part of its official address or designation of place in 1993.
		The concept of Bioregionalism originated from the writings of Gary Snyder and Peter Berg in California throughout the 1970s and stemmed in part from the notion that the growth of socially and ecologically just societies requires a deep understanding of place.
		Although the term Bioregionalism resists any one definition or set of precepts a bioregion can be acknowledged in the words of Berg and Dasmann (1977) as, a "Living-in- Place" characterised by practices that adopt processes of balance between the social, cultural and ecological features of a region.
	www.urbanecology.org.au /articles/bioregionalism.html (1220 words)

	Bioregionalism and the Endangered Planet
		Bioregionalism is a cultural movement as well as an expression of innovative economic practices and political policies.
		The core theme of bioregionalism is that humans are always living in community with some natural region of plants, animals, and geological features.
		We believe that the bioregional movement is a significant part of the vanguard of history dedicated to overcoming the trends toward planetary devastation and social injustice.
	www.realisticliving.org /twentieth/report3.htm (570 words)

	Bioregionalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bioregionalism is a movement suggesting the organization of societies by commonality of place, the immediate and specific places in which people live.
		"Bioregions are geographic areas having common characteristics of soil, watershed, climate, native plants and animals that exist within the whole planetary biosphere as unique and intrinsic contributive parts.
		A bioregion can be determined initially by use of climatology, physiography, animal and plant geography, natural history and other descriptive natural sciences.
	home.klis.com /~chebogue/p.amBio.html (391 words)

	Bioregionalism - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A bioregion is an area that shares similar topography, plant and animal life, and human culture.
		Ideally, bioregions are places that could be largely self-sufficient in terms of food, products and services, and would have a sustainable impact on the environment.
		A bioregional world is one which would undermine one of the reasons for mass migration of peoples.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?p=708347 (1329 words)

	Bioregionalism: The Need for a Firmer Theoretical Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Berg and Dasmann claim that human cultures are differentiated at a bioregional scale - that at the bioregional level, the "geographical terrain" coincides with a "terrain of consciousness", expressing itself in specific cultures.
		This is not to say that there is never a match between the "geographical terrain," at a bioregional scale, and the "terrain of consciousness." There may well be, but we have to first establish our criteria for designating a bioregion, and then specify at what historical stage this correspondence occurs.
		Bioregions may not exist on the ground (as many bioregionalists seem to believe), or they may be a product of a culture-nature interaction and hence in constant flux.
	trumpeter.athabascau.ca /content/v13.3/alexander.html (1726 words)

	The Place and the Story: Where Ecopsychology and Bioregionalism Meet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bioregionalism I regard as one of four socio-philosophical movements that could be characterized as "radical ecology" movements, the other three being deep ecology, ecofeminism and social ecology (with socialist ecology a possible fifth).
		The primary values, from a bioregional perspective, are not "property rights" and "development" but the preservation of the integrity of the regional ecosystem, the viability of the biotic community, and maximizing economic self-sufficiency within the region.
		These cultures are clearly bioregional in their explicit sense of rootedness in the land, and have been gently offering a radical critique of the Eurocentric arrogance ever since the time of Columbus and the conquest (Mander, 1991).
	trumpeter.athabascau.ca /content/v12.3/metzner.html (4079 words)

	ECO - Bioregionalism, Britain and Ireland
		The idea of bioregionalism (and biolocalism) is founded on `a sense of the land' from which come `organically sensitive' communities, that is, communities aware of resource and population limits and the constraints imposed by ecological carrying capacity.
		Bioregionalism is best developed within a provincial legislative structure which can address essential local needs without exceeding the ecological carrying capacity on which they depend.
		This would acknowledge the bioregions within and overlapping each province and the fact that the islands of Britain and Ireland are themselves bioregions within a hierarchy of even larger bioregions.
	eco.gn.apc.org /britire.html (4067 words)

	David Haenke - The North American Bioregional Congress
		Each bioregion is further defined by the kinds of flora and fauna that grow within it, which may be unique to it, or just exist in greater numbers or density than in adjoining areas.
		Bioregional boundaries, being created by nature, often cross the arbitrary political lines drawn by humans in their creation of nations, states, and other subunits.
		"Bioregionalism" deals with the bioregion as a whole system comprised of a set of diverse, integrated natural sub-systems (atmospheric, hydrologic, biologic, geologic) run by ecological laws with which humans (as one species among many) must work in cooperation if there is to be a sustainable future.
	www.context.org /ICLIB/IC03/Haenke.htm (1094 words)

	howto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		His current focus is the integration of Bioregionalism and ecological economics in the context of "total ecology." "Total ecology" covers all dimensions of interaction between the earth and the human species, including 35 ecological movements and disciplines.
		One bioregion is distinguished from another by characteristics of flora, fauna, water, climate, rocks, soils, land forms, and the human settlements, cultures, and communities these characteristics have spawned.
		Bioregionalism is the most thoroughly ecological of twentieth-century movements, after those of native and indigenous peoples.
	www.bioregionalcongress.org /howto/howto.htm (4603 words)

	National Catholic Reporter: Forest expert walks the talk of bioregionalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bioregionalism is an emerging field in the new ecological worldview.
		The bioregional movement challenges us to become aware of native plants and animals in the region where we live so we can feel and experience our actual place in the natural order.
		Sometimes called "living in place," bioregionalism means you are aware of the ecology, economy and culture of the place where you live and are committed to choices that enhance them.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_37_40/ai_n6237221 (887 words)

	Bioregionalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bioregional democracy (or the Bioregional State) is a set of Electoral Reforms designed to force the political process in a democracy to better represent body and environment concerns, e.g.
		This reduces the probability of spreading amajor virus, prion, bacteria, genetically defective seed, or dangerous chemical agentacross a bioregional border, if political borders (where imports are inspected and tariffs are applied) are perfectly aligned with them.Critics argue that this is an excuse for yet more regulations, and panic-mongering.
		A compelling but controversial argument for more bioregional democracy is the alignment of natural language and ecologicalstewardship illustrated by anthropologicallinguistics.
	www.therfcc.org /bioregionalism-88424.html (1080 words)

	NAQ, No. 17: Bioregionalism: The Quiet Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		I saw Laotian refugees teaching extension agents (who thought they were doing the teaching) intensive gardening; strong neighborhoods; inner-city residents who decided they will make a commitment to bringing power to themselves by controlling their sources of food, knowledge, and recreation through a neighborhood farm - foregoing the notion that powerlessness is tied to place.
		bioregions have formed along sensible lines (mostly watersheds) throughout the continent for purposes of identifying local needs and special qualities obscured by the normalizing perspective, direct marketing, meaningful media and art forms, environmental and political consciousness, education that begins at home...
		In the Northeast, there is B.A.N.E. (Bioregions of the American Northeast) - primarily a newsletter, for networking (see announcements); there was the Hudson-Ontario Congress; and a myriad of other connecting threads.
	www.fuzzylu.com /greencenter/q17/bioreg.htm (643 words)

	TF's Ecocentric Page: Bioregionalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bioregionalism refers to considering the regional ecosystem in which one lives, learning to understand how it works, and becoming familiar with its species.
		The boundaries of a bioregion can be defined in various ways, but generally utilize the concepts of watersheds, types of plant cover (ecosystems), and homogeneity of human populations (regional culture).
		The Gulf of Maine bioregion thus includes all of Maine, the eastern half of New Hampshire, eastern Massachusetts, part of Quebec, and half of New Bruswick and Nova Scotia.
	users.rcn.com /compassbrook/bioregion.htm (569 words)

	9th Continental Bioregional Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		While decentralist, Bioregionalism's key understanding is cultural: attention to place, to local history, natural history, and to how a community's hopes, wounds, and dreams can inform enduring ways of life that will heal and sustain the planet's bioregions and their inhabitants.
		Bioregionalism means working to satisfy basic needs locally, relying on renewable energy and sustainable agriculture, developing local enterprises based on local skills and strengths.
		The survival of humanity and of the planet's bioregions depends on the advancement of ecologically designed economics; technology and industry; agriculture and forestry; education and philosophy, psychology, and metaphysics; politics, law and justice; health and environmental defense; politics and land tenure.
	www.bioregionalcongress.org (1050 words)

	Ecologist, The: There's No Place Like Home - bioregionalism
		In the United States, it is easiest to think of watersheds as the defining bioregional unit - the Hudson Valley, for example, where I live, or the Potomoc estuary, or the Kansas River area.
		It is this patterning that reaffirms the bioregional idea as the natural, and once obviously successful, principle for human organisation.
		But inherent in the bioregional vision are several fundamental precepts, rooted in an essentially ecological worldview, that would inform any kind of human settlement.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2465/is_2_31/ai_71634856 (1218 words)

	Columbiana’s Bioregion Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Perfect for all classrooms kindergarten to college the Bioregional Workbook is based on interactive workshops that Peter Berg has led for over 15 years with thousands of participants at community forums, schools and universities.
		Bioregionalism can best be described as the vision of human society interwoven with the warp and weft of the land, a part of the intricate fabric of life; understanding and working within the natural rhythm and cycles of a particular region.
		Columbiana is a bioregional magazine, devoted to the task of learning and sharing ideas of how to live where you are; in our case, the land drained by the Great River of the West, the Columbia River and its tributaries.
	www.columbiana.org /bioregions.htm (3416 words)

	Bioregionalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		InterGarden Web links and archived contents on regenerative agriculture, renewable energy, permaculture, bioregionalism, and related topics.
		The Permaculture Activist North American permaculture periodical, providing a current listing of upcoming permaculture design courses, and offering articles on permaculture design, edible landscaping, bioregionalism, aquaculture, natural building, renewable energy.
		Green Corps (Singapore) An green organisation under a common direction for the support of a social movement that espouses global environmental protection, bioregionalism and social responsibility providing educational materials for effective environmental actions in schools
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Bioregionalism.html (135 words)

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