Bioregioning as Health Care

Back To The Land Reader (2022)

https://thackara.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/reader_B2tLand__2022_thackara.pdf

John Thackara texts on bioregioning

https://thackara.com/category/bioregioning/

John Thackara Talk: Ethics, Design, Care

Ethics, Design, Care

Thackara Talk: Caring for Place vs Systems Thinking

Caring for Place vs Systems Thinking: Can They Meet?

Design for Multi-Species Cities (handout)

Design for Multi-Species Cities

Design Grammars for Health and Care

Health and wellbeing are properties of social-ecological systems – so how you design in those?

Design Grammars for Health and Care

Social Food Forum: Ten Takeaways

Social Food Forum: the takeaways

The Good Work In Urban-Rural (JT in Resilience)

The Good Work In Urban-Rural

Caring for Place vs Systems Thinking: Can They Meet?

Caring for Place vs Systems Thinking: Can They Meet?

Bioregioning: Pathways To Urban-Rural Reconnection (paper)

https://thackara.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Bioregioning_-Pathways-to-Urban-Rural-Reconnection.pdf

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Territories of Life Report (many case studies)

Indigenous peoples and local communities govern and conserve vast territories of life across the breadth of West and Central Asia and the Caucasus.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369356407_Territories_of_Life_in_West_and_Central_Asia_and_the_Caucasus_Diversity_present_status_and_threats#pf16

Everyday Experts (489pp) Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR, UK)

Most of the world’s agricultural production is generated by peasants, or small-scale traditional farmers. Their population is between 1,300 and 1,600 million. Their farming knowledge and practices are the product of over 10,000 years of tradition and experimentation.

https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/agroecology-water-resilience/our-publications/everyday-experts-how-peoples-knowledge-can-transform-the-food-system/

Farmers of Forty Centuries (F H King)

http://www.public-library.uk/ebooks/37/46.pdf

Biodiversity Action Plans | The Burren, Ireland

In Ireland, meanwhile, on the ‘learning landscape’ of the Burren bioregion, fifteen local communities are implementing Biodiversity Action Plans. Community are taught different ways to enhance

biodiversity: community orchards and soil repair, to pollinators, tree and hedgerow planting. Tutors in the Burren include a Rites of Passage coach, a wildlife tracker, and the founder of a Wild Kitchen.

Thematic Report on Rangelands and Pastoralists

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381194995_Thematic_Report_on_Rangelands_and_Pastoralists

In Uzbekistan, a lowly tree afforests a lost sea

A new forest ecosystem combats the desertification of the Aral Sea basin

In Uzbekistan, a lowly tree afforests a lost sea

Desert forests account for 78 percent of Uzbekistan territory

In Uzbekistan, a lowly tree afforests a lost sea

Edible Maps (Dr Mikey Tomkins, UK)

https://mikeytomkins.co.uk/category/edible-maps/

Fringe Farming

https://www.sustainweb.org/news/may25-cpre-report/

Cities and Food Waste

https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/cities-and-a-circular-economy-for-food/overview

Findhorn Watershed Iniatiatve (Scotland)

https://findhornwatershed.com/

Biocantines: Connecting schools to farmers

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/what-happens-if-you-treat-healthy-school-meals-public-service/

Collective school catering

https://urbact.eu/good-practices/collective-school-catering

The hidden potential of urban horticulture

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-020-0045-6?utm_source=Agro.biodiver.se+subscribers&utm_campaign=d8a1b63102-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_949cf01306-d8a1b63102-44963957

Farmer Live Streaming

Taobao now has over 50,000 rural live-streamers and aims for at least 200,000 more within the year. Growers who had once sold 90% of their products offline have now flipped to selling 90% online.

According to Zhu Xi, the head of Taobao Rural Livestreaming, nearly 2,000 rural participants now generate a monthly income of over RMB10,000 (roughly $1,400)—eight times the rural average.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/06/1001186/china-rural-live-streaming-during-cornavirus-pandemic

Traditional Food Processing Methods in Uzbekistan and Their Role in Sustainable Agriculture

https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/5117193

Sak-da: The Poetics of Decomposition (Rice-Brewing Sisters Club)

https://artreview.com/inside-the-rice-brewing-sisters-club/

Living Infrastructure Field Kit (Los Angeles)

Bringing life to L.A.’s infrastructure

https://livinginfrastructure.org/

Honey Routes (Slovenia)

https://www.authentic-routes.com/

Domaine de Graulx | Coline Lescot, Out Of Office

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/coline-lescot-226b2989_impactproject-experiencesomethingdifferent-activity-7312736872424747008-WKQW/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAACIp0B_ieSywjF1ph7o40-RQabykIf9AQ

Urban Soils Institute NYC

Just as the Soil Food Web is a network of organisms within which energy and nutrients are exchanged for survival, USI is similarly networked. We maintain the only global platform for the exchange of people’s soil-related learnings. In science, as in life, we’re the work in progress, always. Connecting, provoking, inspiring alongside you. The Urban Soils Institute exists to advance the scientific understanding of urban soils and to promote their sustainable use for the health of all life. We are an international group of physical and social scientists and artists, each rigorously involved in our disciplines, collaborating to support a sustainable human existence.

https://urbansoils.org/team-pictures

https://urbansoils.org/our-vision

Lubeck forestry

https://www.cbd.int/doc/meetings/esa/ecosys-01/information/ecosys-01-inf-05-en.pdf

http://www.integrateplus.org/uploads/images/Mediacenter/Field_Guide_Luebeck_Final_EN.pdf

Decentralising Digital (DEDI)

Indigenous ways of knowing and being in the world have long been marginalised by Western research and innovation But this changing. Knowledge practices that combine Indigenous knowledge systems, and Western scientific approaches, are now appearing. In India, explored roles that mesh networks, the Internet of Things, voice enabled Internet, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, might play in enhancing daily life practices of small-scale farmers. Download the book: https://www.decentralising.digital/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/DeDi_Book_v30_Screen.pdf

Sensory qualities and culinary utility of produce (Swedish grey pea PhD)

A path towards sustainable gastronomy MAGNUS WESTLING https://oru.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1636304/COVER01.pdf

Honey in traditional cuisine of Uzbekistan and analysis of melliferous flora of Karakalpakstan

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352618116300762

Open Food Network

international not-for-profit focused on creating the tools and resources needed to build food systems that are fair, local, and transparent.

Home

AI and Agroecology

https://www.fian.org/files/is/htdocs/wp11102127_GNIAANVR7U/www/files/ENG_REMOTE%20CONTROL%26PEASANT%20INTELLIGENCE_Optimizer_compressed%20(1).pdf

Engaging with Nature through Technology: A Scoping Review of HCI Research

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3544548.3581534

Didi Pershouse (Ecology of Care)

https://mailchi.mp/landandleadership/climate-and-courses?e=ae5ff7898e

Didi Pershouse (soil sponge as infrastructure)

https://mailchi.mp/landandleadership/regenerating-landscapes-course

Bioregional Learning Centre

https://www.bioregion.org.uk/

“If water could speak, what would it say?”

https://bioregion.org.uk/project/voices-of-the-dart/

Open School for Village Hosts https://www.villagehosts.eu/

Open School for Village Hosts Handbook https://www.villagehosts.eu/handbook/

Oasis

“So you want to live collectively in a rural area?”

Accueil

Local Revolution (Colibris MOOC)

“Are you ready to act collectively for your locality?”

https://colibris-lemouvement.org/mooc-revolutions-locales/?PagePrincipale

Playing For Time: creating the conditions for change (book)

“Playing For Time”: creating the conditions for change

The PhD Scientist who became a shepherd

Le troupeau des cent sources

A beautiful project concerning flax (hemp): check out the greay vids

http://www.flaxproject.com/

Multispecies Studies: Cultivating Arts of Attentiveness

Thom van Dooren et al

https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/8/1/1/61679/Multispecies-StudiesCultivating-Arts-of

Highlands Rewilding

https://www.highlandsrewilding.co.uk/blog/highlands-rewilding-and-the-roadmap-from-silver-to-gold-standard-in-community-centred-nature-recovery

Agroecology Movements Turn Digitization on its Head (excellent overview + quotes)

By Daniel Moss Co-Director of the Agroecology Fund.

“Like a hoe or a tractor, digital tools in agriculture may offer farmers opportunities. But as any farmer knows, some tools are better than others” (FarmFit case study in India)

“Hunger will not be resolved by data. Digitization will also not solve structural problems of poverty and injustice,”

Agroecology Movements Turn Digitization on its Head

Berlin as a farm José Luis Vicente-Vicente

Planning for sustainable food communities: An optimal spatial allocation study of food hubs considering the 15-min city concept—The case of LebensMittelPunkte in Berlin

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2022.913412/full

Pluriverse: A Post-development Dictionary (pdf)

https://www.academia.edu/39692614/_Pluriverse_A_Post-Development_Dictionary_AUF_2019_._NEW_BOOK_edited_by_Ashish_Kothari_Ariel_Salleh_Arturo_Escobar_Federico_Demaria_and_Alberto_Acosta._Download_full_ebook_for_free_PDF_._License_Creative_Commons?email_work_card=title

Babylonstoren (Regenerative Farming Wellness Travel, South Africa)

https://babylonstoren.com/

https://www.vogue.com/article/agritourism-regenerative-farm-stays

Regenerative Real Estate (USA)

https://chooselatitude.com/ecological-journal

Burrenbeo Trust (Ireland)

https://burrenbeo.com/

India Bioregions (Boell Foundation)

https://in.boell.org/en/2023/06/14/webbing-new-net

South Asia Bioregionalism Working Group

https://vikalpsangam.org/south-asia-bioregionalism-working-group/

Alpha Lo | Water cycle restoration