CIPolitics home Bioregionalism Bioregionalism is a call to become knowledgeable guardians of the places where we live. Although we are seldom aware of it, we live in naturally unique physical, ecological, historical and cultural areas whose boundaries are more often ridgetops than county lines and state borders. It is a call to join our hearts, hands and minds with what has been, what is, and what could be, in this place.
Security begins by acting responsibly at home.
You might find bioregionalists wandering together in the hills around their town, creating a map of important features , a map unlike any published one, a map that ties them, quite personally, to the land. You might find them lobbying their city to free a major creek from its underground pipelines so it can once again bubble free, a servant to the beauty and health of its local ecosystem. You might find them corresponding with people in a comparable bioregion four thousand miles away to share innovative ways to use a local bush in housing construction. Two excellent resources for bioregionalism are permaculture and asset-based community development .