From Roberta:
For the past two years, the organization I work for (the Center for an Ecology-Based Economy ~ CEBE) has been working to leverage our capabilities as catalysts for change in the western foothills of Maine in support of the growing global movement toward bioregional regeneration. Through our collaborative work as founding members of Northeast Woodlands Bioregioning Collective we have begun to see with greater clarity, the unique gifts our vibrant, creative (and notoriously hands-on) community can bring to this work.
We are calling our emerging vision the Bioregional COHERENCE Project, an ecological, cultural, technological, geo-spatial interface for organizing, sharing and celebrating regenerative projects, programs and experiences (“regenerative opportunities”) across the Northeast Woodlands Bioregion.
Our goal is to design a system that will allow the bioregion to begin mapping, understanding and healing itself. One that will support the embodied, place-based relationality, community building, skill-sharing, and resource-sharing that is called for if we are to – in Nate Hagens’ words – bend not break together toward our powered-down future.
I am very honored to have been invited to share our emerging, 100% open-sourced vision with all of you. I greatly welcome the input of this beautiful and forward leaning community. It is with the help of such communities that this vision will become a reality.