AELA's Bioregional Governance program aims to show how 'bioregioning' and bioregional governance offers important pathways to create Earth-centred societies.
The practice of bioregional governance is ancient. First Nations' Peoples around the world often developed complex bio-cultural societies that lived in harmony with non-human nature, and used the living world as a guide to inform how human societies could be safe, secure and successful.
'Bioregioning' is a Western term that urges us to see human societies and culture as part of nature, and proposes that modern human societies can be more sustainable, successful and meaningful, if our governance, political, cultural and economic systems are organised within natural boundaries such as bioregions and catchments (watersheds).
AELA's Bioregional Learning Network is a space for connecting with others who are interested in, or actively engaged in, 'bioregional governance' practice. AELA hosts webinars and events to invite people to come together to share, learn and explore what a bioregional life can look like.
WEBINAR SERIES - 'EXPLORING BIOREGIONING'
Join us for AELA's "Exploring Bioregioning" webinar series! In our August webinar, AELA Convenor and Greenprints creator, Michelle Maloney, will be joined by John Thackara and James Oliver, to discuss the role of social and ecological design, in bioregioning and place-based initiatives.
Read More...Join us for AELA's "Exploring Bioregioning" webinar series! In our April webinar, AELA Convenor and Greenprints creator, Dr Michelle Maloney, will be joined by Bill Baue, Brenda Geer, Maggie Favretti and Mike Thomas, who collaborate in a bioregioning collective covering the northeast region of Turtle Island (North America), which shares a common forested landscape. Brenda, Maggie and Mike are also members of the Alliance for the Mystic River Watershed and all our guest speakers will share stories about their bioregioning efforts in the Mystic River Watershed (Catchment) in the United States.
Read More...Join us for AELA's "Exploring Bioregioning" webinar series! In our March webinar, AELA Convenor and Greenprints creator, Dr Michelle Maloney, will be joined by Ella Hubbard and Isabel Carlisle, to share stories about bioregioning in the United Kingdom.
Read More...Join us for AELA's "Exploring Bioregionalism" webinar series! In our December webinar, AELA Convenor and Greenprints creator, Dr Michelle Maloney, will be joined by Dr Mary Graham, to discuss how First Peoples' governance systems and the Relationist Ethos have inspired - and can guide - bioregionalism and biocultural governance.
Read More...Join us for AELA's "Exploring Bioregionalism" webinar series! In our October webinar, AELA Convenor and Greenprints creator, Dr Michelle Maloney, will be joined by Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe AO, to discuss what Western science can tell us about bioregions, boundaries and 'bioregionalism'.
Join us for AELA's "Exploring Bioregionalism" webinar series! In our September webinar, AELA Convenor and Greenprints creator, Dr Michelle Maloney, will be joined by Dr Sam Wearne, UTS, to explore how 'bioregionalism' is being interpreted, re-invented and reinvigorated in the 21st Century, in theory and practice around the world.
Join us for AELA's "Exploring Bioregionalism" webinar series! In our August webinar, we ask: can bioregionalism solve Australia's housing crisis?
Join us for AELA's "Exploring Bioregionalism" webinar series! In our July webinar, AELA Convenor and Greenprints creator, Dr Michelle Maloney, will be joined by Shrishtee Bajpai, from Kalpavriksh and the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, to explore bioregionalism from the perspective of different communities and projects in India.
