Bioregioning by conversation - with Glenn Page & Daniel Wahl
Channel: Daniel Christian Wahl
Date: 24/03/2022

This is a very personal and lively conversation between two people who have a lot of respect and curiosity for each others work due to sharing many core insights into the importance of place, 'coming home' and bioregionally focussed yet globally aware and collaborative regeneration. If you don't know of Glenn's work do take a dive into the links below. 

Glenn's work in Maine and in Scotland and his collaboration and weaving into a network of various bioregional initiatives around the world is the beginning of the syntropic effect as regenerative patterns re-emerge into culture everywhere and these place-sourced expressions begin to see each other and share the deep recognition of the regenerative potential that lies  with human beings when they aim to become expressions of rather than owners of place again.  That human beings in collaboration with the community of life they inhabit do have healing and regenerative potential, and that healing the Earth is healing humanity and healing humanity is healing the Earth is another shared insight of people on bioregional learning journeys all around the world. 

"Glenn Page is the "Professor X" of the SustainaMetrix Team.  He has over 25 years experience in ecosystem approach and adaptive management, working primarily on coastal/ocean/watershed issues.   In 2001 he was awarded the title of "Environmental Hero" by U.S. Vice President Al Gore. At SustainaMetrix he leads an interdisciplinary team in ongoing consultancies in ecosystem science and research, policy, education, economics and multi-media communications.   He has a long list of professional experiences building programs from ground up and leading their design, implementation and evaluation.  Recent work includes developmental evaluation of the Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry program located at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Tufts Institute of the Environment at Tufts University, external review of the University of Maine's Aquaculture Research Institute.  Glenn has pioneered methods for assessing the development and implementation  of University PhD programs designed to promote interdisciplinary research funded by the National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) programs.  In 2015, he is leading several projects including work with the Republic of Ireland on marine policy, renewable energy and sustainable aquaculture."
http://www.sustainametrix.com

"Bioregioning re-connects people with those natural systems, and each other, through the places where they live, enabling deeper understanding of the interdependence between them and human flourishing.

Bioregioning in action:

Values natural assets as the building blocks of life
Works at the interface between the urban and the rural
Makes a region distinct and visible through a coherent narrative of geography, geology, land use, history, culture
Reinforces identity through a bounded sense of belonging to a place
Sources solutions from the place itself
Gets sectors out of silos and collaborating on a co-created resilience strategy
Prototypes and learns continuously
Addresses conflicts as an opportunity to take the work to the next level
Builds collective will to action and telling a ‘can do’ story of resilience and possibility"
https://www.bioregioningtayside.scot

COBALT is a division of SustainaMetrix focused on international connections and bioregional “Learning Journeys”.  
http://www.sustainametrix.com/cobalt