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Bioregioning Tayside is bringing people in Tayside, Scotland, together to build community resilience in the face of global heating, biodiversity collapse, and a broken economic model. bioregioningtayside.scot

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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
“Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, by far the majority could unlock a social tipping point and help push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘A silent majority’: MPs underestimate support for green policies, study reveals
Exclusive: From solar subsidies to meat taxes, minority rightwing voices appear to drown out the consensus
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
SOLSTICE, by our Makar, Jim Mackintosh.
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record .. Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record
Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
The milestone is one of a number of new measures taking effect on St Andrew's Day from the Scottish Languages Act.
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Bioregioning: A Catalyst for Renewal in an Age of Interconnected Risk - The Bioregions of the Atlantic Isles in conversation with Thomas Homer-Dixon and Shandell Houlden of the @cascadeinstitute.bsky.social bioregioningtayside.scot/news/bioregi...
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Bioregioning: A Catalyst for Renewal in an Age of Interconnected Risk - Bioregioning Tayside
In a world defined by cascading global crises — climate instability, biodiversity loss, economic inequality, and cultural fragmentation — it can feel as though the systems sustaining life are fraying ...
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
“Low levels of nature connectedness ..one of three major underlying causes of biodiversity loss” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most
Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
“ We are all walking ecosystems, picking up and shedding material as we move through life. “ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The nature extinction crisis is mirrored by one in our own bodies. Both have huge implications for health
Modern life is waging a war against ecosystems around us and inside us. Keeping our own microbes healthy is another reason to demand action to preserve the natural world
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Community Land Scotland @communitylandsc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We're calling on the Scottish National Investment Bank to rethink investment in the Gresham House fund. Using @andywightman.scot's research, we raise key concerns around public expenditure, transparency & local economies. Scotsman article 👉 tinyurl.com/4re6ps6r Full article 👉 tinyurl.com/mt38ax9f
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
“We’ve created a food system that’s poisoning our population and bankrupting the state. “This report shows that poor diet now costs the UK a shocking £126bn a year. That’s not a crisis. That’s a collapse.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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UK’s obesity and overweight epidemic costs £126bn a year, study suggests
Exclusive: Experts say higher figure than past estimates should be wake-up call for ministers to tackle obesity
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
“..in the past five years, 78% of farmers had been hit by drought and more than half had suffered the consequences of heatwaves. In stark contrast, just 2% of farmers had not experienced extreme weather in some form.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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More than 80% of UK farmers worried about climate crisis harming livelihood, study finds
Farmers warn of risk to Britain’s food supply as more than three-quarters take hit to income from extreme weather
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mesoplants.bsky.social @mesoplants.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
New paper on the nature of plant life and its relationship to human life during the Mesolithic! Thanks to @ojth.bsky.social, Amy Gray Jones and @graemewarren.bsky.social for comments and advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Living Amongst and with Trees: Botanical Agency and the Archaeology of Plant-Human Relationships
The last decade has seen a significant change in the way the humanities have approached the study of botanical life. Termed ‘the plant turn’, this questions traditional views of plants as a largely...
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We’re delighted to share that we will be supported by the Scotland Food & Drink Partnership’s Regional Food Fund for our project 'From Tree to Glass – promoting craft Cider and Perry production in Tayside and North Fife' Learn more below 👇 foodanddrink.scot/helping-busi... #ScotFoodTourism
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Regional Food Fund
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Gavin MacGregor @gavinmacgregor.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Please share widely, a fantastic #ArtArchaeology pilot on the amazing Isle of Arran #Scotland #Art #Archaeology #IsleofArran @eoghannmaccolla.bsky.social @lesleymcf.bsky.social @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social @antoniathomas.bsky.social @bioregiontayside.bsky.social
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Interested in finding out more about Bioregioning? Bioregional Learning Centre in South Devon is running their first Bioregional Summer School, 18th-25th July. Designed for both newcomers and bioregioning practitioners working in a wide range of related fields. www.bioregion.org.uk/summer-school
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Bioregional Summer School • Bioregional Learning Centre
BLC is opening its new South Devon Bioregional Summer School in July where participants will experience the full spectrum of how to work bioregionally, with South Devon as our classroom and local and ...
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Delighted to announce Bioregioning Tayside's first Makar - Jim Mackintosh: tinyurl.com/7mksa22n
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Welcoming Jim Mackintosh as Bioregioning Tayside's Makar - Bioregioning Tayside
Bioregioning Tayside is proud to welcome poet Jim Mackintosh as their Makar. The contemporary Bioregioning movement has strong connections to this ‘vital truth’ through the American Pulitzer Prize-win...
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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
How my parents brought back Britain’s beavers: www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-magic-...
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The Magic of Beavers
Adam Ramsay recounts how his parents' adoption of beavers has transformed their upland farm into a rich, biodiverse haven for birds, mammals, fish and amphibians
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This is not just a policy debate or an economic shift. It’s a fight for the future of life on Earth. www.linkedin.com/pulse/battle...
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The Battle for Nature’s Wealth: Wall Street vs. the Bioregional Revolution
It’s a Fight for the Future of Life on Earth This isn’t just a story about finance — it’s a battle between two fundamentally different forces: extraction vs. life itself.
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"Global carbon emissions are still rising & current policies will result in a rise in global temperature between 2.2C and 3.4C above pre-industrial levels. At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to.." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
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John Thackara @johnthackara.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"A short history of bioregional cartography" (in French). PIC: "Nous sommes Orne!" by Collectif Hydromondes topophile.net/savoir/petit...
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John Thackara @johnthackara.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
What is bioregioning all about? How can I bring my bioregion alive? The new Bioregional Learning Alliance & Gaia Education practitioner course starts 22 April. (My session: Where are the Jobs and Livelihoods in Bioregioning?) www.gaiaeducation.org/bioregioning...
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Bioregioning in Practice: Learn from the World’s Leading Practitioners
The Bioregional Learning Alliance is an international network of practitioners dedicated to growing the field of bioregioning. After two years of collaboration, we have designed a learning program that provides multiple entry points based on your experience and interests.
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This film is beautifully scripted, shot and very moving… do watch. emergencemagazine.org/film/the-las...
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The Last Ice Age
For storyteller Andri Snær Magnason, climate change is like a black hole: it’s larger than language. Retracing his grandparents’ annual journey to Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier, he seeks stories that ...
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Dark Matter Labs @darkmatterlabs.org · 14/02/2025
Announcing the Launch of the Planetary Civics Inquiry! We are thrilled to introduce the Planetary Civics Inquiry(PCI) an alliance of researchers, educators, policymakers, designers, and practitioners committed to transforming the structures and processes that shape how we govern our entangled planet
Poster for launch with similar text on the post
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John Thackara @johnthackara.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) appoints the Ocean as a Trustee on their board www.sams.ac.uk/news/sams-ne...
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The Ocean enters the boardroom
'Ocean trustee' election is a
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Invasive non-native species drive #biodiversity loss, contributing to 60% of global species extinctions 🌿🐟.
 🌍 Meet Professor Helen Roy, a leading expert in tackling this global challenge 🔗 Our Agents for Change: campaigns.ceh.ac.uk/agentsforcha... @ukladybirds.bsky.social @ipbes.bsky.social
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The ‘Transformative Change Assessment’ from the IPBES, makes it clear that we need to rapidly transform pretty much everything about our societies and economies in industrialised countries if we are to “safeguard life on Earth”. A great piece of work for the world: www.sei.org/publications...
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 27/01/2025
🌍 Call for Nominations! 🧪 IPBES invites experts & practitioners to apply to join a May 2025 in-person workshop in the Philippines on scenarios & models integrating Indigenous, local, & Mother Earth-centric knowledge systems 🗓️Deadline: 9 Feb 2025 🔗Details: www.ipbes.net/scenarios-mo...
An image of terraced green hills. Overlay text reads "Call for Workshop Nominations: Exploring Scenarios & Models Integrating Diverse Knowledge Systems. Deadline: 9 February 2025"
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. ~ Carl Sagan
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Calum MacLeod @calummacleod.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I’m pleased to have been appointed as a Scottish Land Commissioner and looking forward to contributing to Scotland’s land reform agenda in that role.
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
“Blended finance, often heralded as a silver bullet, has fallen short: public resources dominate blended deals, often de-risking private initiative in lower-risk, lower-impact projects.”
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Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Our article in the Conversation - reveals that only half of ecological features required on new housing estates are actually there. It's a systemic problem of housebuilders not putting them in, management companies not maintaining them and a lack of enforcement theconversation.com/property-dev...
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Property developers installing as few as half of promised ecological features – new report
A new report highlights the extent that housing developers fail to deliver on their ecological commitments.
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Neil McInroy @neilmcinroy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Health Impact Assessment of #CommunityWealthbuilding in Scotland has found that given the many health benefits, community wealth building should be recognised as a public health intervention as well as an approach to economic development. publichealthscotland.scot/our-blog/202...
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Gaining the best value for local economies and health through Community Wealth Building in Scotland - Our blog - Public Health Scotland
Gaining the best value for local economies and health through Community Wealth Building in Scotland
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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Well done to those who managed to recapture the lynx spotted in the Cairngorms. I would like to see lynx back in Scotland. But work is already underway to do this legally and with local support. It's a conversation that Scotland has to have in the open. treesforlife.org.uk/lynx-could-r...
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Lynx could return to Scotland – but not through unwelcome illegal releases - Trees for Life
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Banks need to radically rethink how they support farmers in the shift to systems that prioritise ecological resilience, according to new research from @thesoilassociation.bsky.social Exchange: tinyurl.com/2z9nyxu4 Couldld the dev. of Bioregional Financing Facilities help? tinyurl.com/ychwtxfj
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Joseph Gridley – Banks need radical rethink to support farming transition - 8.9ha
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
We are very excited to begin 2025 by advancing our plans to build a new Bioregional Financing Facility here in Tayside, led by Leon Seefeld of @darkmatterlabs.org. Read all about it here: tinyurl.com/ychwtxfj
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Reimagining Finance To Regenerate Our Planet: Interview with Leon Seefeld, lead architect of Bioregioning Tayside's planned new Bioregional Financing Facility - Bioregioning Tayside
Bioregioning Tayside’s latest and most ambitious project to date has been to begin working with Leon Seefeld of Dark Matter Labs to build Scotland’s first Bioregional Financing Facility. Read our inte...
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
This. But also.... The UK Govt needs to take immediate action to remove Twitter/X from the public realm, while its owner continues to promote/incite violence against democratically elected politicians.
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
@tgspodcast.bsky.social is an excellent resource for those interested in hearing the voices of many of our planet’s great thinkers & doers working on understanding & coming up with potential solutions to navigating the #metacrisis. This podcast with Luke Kemp is one of many worth listening to …
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Ghosts of the landscape: how folklore and songs are key to rewilding Finland’s reindeer www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ghosts of the landscape: how folklore and songs are key to rewilding Finland’s reindeer
For ecologists restoring the vast bogs of remote Karelia, wild reindeer are not just part of the environment but entwined with the ancient culture of the boreal forests
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Edward Pollard @epollard.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Sobering but essential reading for anyone involved in an environmental campaign. Shows what we are up against @milesking.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social aprs.scot/news/environ...
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Environmental campaigning in the age of misinformation - Action to Protect Rural Scotland
As people in Galloway, and further afield, are being asked to contribute their views on a new National Park to the official consultation, our Director, Kat Jones, contemplates the campaign that is bei...
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
“Scotland would be the first part of the UK to have such a law which could impose harsh penalties on executives responsible for major environmental damage.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bill to jail bosses of major polluters set to be introduced in Scotland
The Ecocide Prevention Bill would impose harsh penalties on executives responsible for major environmental damage.
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Andy Wightman @andywightman.scot · 10/12/2024
The Nov 2024 update to Who Owns Scotland is now published. No new properties this month but all 3600 landholdings covering 73.97% of rural Scotland updated. The project is financed solely by subscription income. Please subscribe at whoownsscotland.org.uk
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Dr. Mariana García Criado @nanitundra.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🌿 We need to raise the profile of #bryophyte ecological research 🌿 (and also a bryophyte emoji!) In this opinion piece, we as a group of #ECRs outline barriers in bryophyte research and provide recommendations to overcome them across institutional levels & disciplines. doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We love the language that the Salmon Nation Bioregion is using: a 'nature state' rather than a 'nation state'! www.salmonnation.net
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Salmon Nation Trust
Salmon Nation is home.
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
What a fantastic resource! www.ffungi.org
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Fungi Foundation
The Fungi Foundation facilitates the exploration, discovery, documentation, conservation and preservation of the world’s most important kingdom, fungi.
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
“Today, as the planet hurtles towards environmental and societal breakdown … it is becoming ever more evident that modernity was founded on a profoundly mistaken understanding of the world …” erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
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Erasmusprijswinnaars - Praemium Erasmianum Foundation
It takes only a glance at a newspaper nowadays to see that much of what we once took for granted is either being cast aside or turned on its head. Indeed, with floods sweeping away entire cities, and ...
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
"“By prioritising agriculture as a land use, planners and residents together can work to reconfigure peri-urban spaces marked for residential development into vibrant, multifunctional areas that advance ecological, social, and economic goals” tinyurl.com/2z6329d6
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‘You have to find your own recipe’: Dutch suburb where residents must grow food on at least half of their property
In the suburb of Oosterwold, a living experiment in urban agriculture, the 5,000 inhabitants find different creative ways to fulfil the unique stipulation
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
“This easy-to-flip-through guide—published by Drawdown Labs—will help the climate-concerned employee assess whether or not their company is taking adequate steps to address the climate crisis, and how they can utilize their power to push their company well beyond ‘net zero’”
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
“At the end of the day, what happens in politics is shaped by social movements … by our capacity to create living examples of what we want to see locally, in bioregions, and beyond.” medium.com/presencing-i...
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An Emerging Third Option: Reclaiming Democracy from Dark Money & Dark Tech
Seven Observations On 2024 and What’s Next
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Bioregioning Tayside @bioregiontayside.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We are excited to be working with @darkmatterlabs.bsky.social on the potential for developing a Bioregional Financing Facility for the Tay Bioregion! We need to reimagine finance to regenerate our planet. darkmatterlabs.org/feed/bioregi...
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Bioregional Financing Facilities - Dark Matter Labs
Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Very interesting approach to land use and climate action being taken in Denmark - led by a Green Tripartite comprised of the government, the Danish Nature Conservation Association, the Danish Food Federation NNF, Dansk Metal, Danish Industry and wider stakeholders.
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