We come from stardust. Our life stories are woven into the story of the universe in lifetimes across generations. The long history of humanity has been one of deep harmony with all other life on Earth. But now, we find ourselves out of balance with life itself. All generations alive in this moment have a choice: do we continue to destroy life or do we choose the continuation of life? We can be Earth Regenerators – cultivating, stewarding, regenerating and connecting our "life places" (bioregions) around the planet. The emergence of Bioregional Earth is this new/old story.
The air we breathe flows oxygen through our bodies. The flow of water from the ocean to the clouds to the snowpack at the top of mountains to the rivers nourishes the land. Where there are living flows, there is life.
The challenges we're facing now are extremely complex, unlike anything that's come before in the history of the planet. Meeting these challenges demands new ways of organizing work on the ground and flowing funding into it.
A Living Flows approach is about creating scale-linked learning, action, and funding ecosystems. We're flowing time, knowledge, experience, stories, and money into our highest commitments to our world, ourselves, and each other. Living Flows enables robust translocal action in the context of an appropriate large-scale framework, letting life do its thing in complexity and emergence.
Dandelion and Ripple are the two complementary strategies of Living Flows, each moving across fractal scales from different directions. The Dandelion Strategy starts with a planetary vision of establishing 1,000 Bioregional Learning Centers by 2035, with this planetary network informing and connecting bioregions for Earth regeneration. We're seeding regenerative cultures in as many places as possible because we don't know which ones will prove viable to survive in the coming tumultuous decades. The Ripple Strategy is rippling out from the Greater Tkaronto Bioregion (GTB), recognized as one of the most advanced bioregions in the world, into the Great Lakes Basin and Turtle Island, and beyond. Signal by signal, we're flowing on-the-ground experience in social and ecological regeneration with knowledge systems interaction for whole-system ecopsychosocial wellbeing. Who will pick up the signals and ripple out from their own bioregion in synchronicity? Ripples emerging from many places – signals coming from everywhere – mutually reinforce and amplify each other for Earth regeneration.
