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Bioregioning as Health Care
References and Further Reading to accompany my lectures at Aran School, Uzbekistan, in 2026
Ecological Knowledge Systems
Under what circumstances would people interested in earth repair, ecological restoration, and civic ecology, find each other and what they need?
Bringing together municipalism and bioregionalism
by Marin Schaffner (translator of Murray Bookchin and also of Vandana Shiva)
Watersheds, Swamps and Wetlands
How to counter the negative connotations of "desert" and"swamp"
Bioregioning as Health Care: Wordy Slides
Extracted from the (many) slides I used with my lectures at Aran School, Uzbekistan, in 2026
Design for Multi-Species Cities
Background reading for a workshop: "Design an urban ecology tool, equipment, place, or experience, that will enhance the interdependence of all life in practical ways".
Designing for Life in Practice: 80 Case Study Collections
Creating a new world among the ruins of the old: Here are 80+ collections of stories about people designing for life in practice
Social Food Green Paper
Agriculture and food are not just about production and consumption - they are about relationships, too
Food Systems and Design
new ways to think about food and food systems - how to be, as well as what to do, in a food context
Wild Learning: 96 Ecological Learning Resources
We allowed the metabolic interaction between man and the earth to wither - but these educators are working on a cure.
The True And Hidden Costs Of Stuff
Do you simply love iPhones, wind turbines, cloud computing, and electric cars? Good, because the following may be of interest:
How To Curate A Social Harvest Festival
A big part of social innovation involves connecting people with each other in ways that are inclusive, uncomplicated, inexpensive, and joyful.
Design Grammars for Health and Care
Health and wellbeing are properties of social-ecological systems - so how you design in those?
Relocalising? 100 Locally Needed Skills
From fish smokers to button makers - there's so much to do.
The Five Skills Of A Resilience Impresario
How to develop a shared vision among multiple stakeholders - and the other capabilities we need.
Eight Commons Design Principles
Rules that would prevent us from over-harvesting the Commons.