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Bioregional Open Dialogue 14: Mapping the Field – Launching a Bioregional Knowledge Commons Database

20 August 2026 | 3:00-4:30pm UTC (click here to convert to your time zone)
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How do we relearn to live in right relationship with the land and water that sustain us? Communities around the world are already answering it in practice, through regenerative food systems, watershed stewardship, and new forms of place-based governance. But this knowledge often stays scattered: locked in reports, oral histories, and disconnected systems, largely invisible to the wider field trying to learn from it.

This talk introduces the first public output of r3.0’s Bioregional Knowledge Commons Project: a structured secondary-research database — 57 organization profiles and 59 in-depth case studies drawn from 117 sources on bioregional organizing worldwide — built into a queryable, Markdown-native knowledge base designed for discovery, comparison, and eventual federation across bioregions.

r3.0 Research Fellow Andrea Farias will walk through what’s in the database, how it’s structured, and what the team learned building it — then zoom out to the larger landscape it’s part of: a “local / meta” model of federated knowledge commons, and parallel efforts to build bioregional intelligence infrastructure that helps places understand and steward themselves.

The throughline: territories and communities need better ways to know themselves and each other — and that infrastructure is just beginning to take shape.

This last Bioregional Open Dialogue session before the r3.0 Conference will tee up the Bioregional Knowledge Commons Panel Session at the Conference, where r3.0 Research Fellow Eli Ingraham will present on the overarching Bioregional Knowledge Commons Research Project, focusing in particular on the Primary Research elements, including interviewing bioregional groups globally about their regenerative practices, and then applying a pattern analysis method to discern commonalities across biocultural contexts.

The Session will take place on the r3.0 Zoom line:
https://zoom.us/j/4785801785?pwd=RU50bUFWSG5wUnBBc21JMFUyaEhyUT09
Meeting ID: 478 580 1785
Passcode: 902564

Bioregional Open Dialogue 13: Spotlighting Bioregional Confluences in Palestine & Somalia

29 July 2026

Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, who was nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, will share on the work he stewards with the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS) of Bethlehem University in the Western Asia-Palestine Bioregion. The goals of this work include:

• Research and knowledge dissemination on the fauna, flora, and human ethnography of Palestine.
• Promote environmental protection and responsible interaction between people and the environment, including cultural heritage.
• Use research results in areas such as biodiversity, history, culture, permaculture and biological control to promote sustainable communities, focusing on marginalized communities.

Yasmin Mohamud of Dryland Solutions — which works to revitalize Somalia’s semi-desert grasslands, reversing the damage from climate change, deforestation, and conflict to realize its vision of a transformed Somalia where the semi-desert grassland ecosystem flourishes — will present on this work in the Somali Arid and Semi-Arid Lands Bioregion.

Dryland Solutions’ holistic approach to creating lasting positive change includes: Environmental Regeneration; Community Empowerment; Innovation & Education; Collaboration & Peacebuilding; Biodiversity Conservation; and Sustainable Development.

Bioregional Open Dialogue 12: BioHubs Nourish Bioregional Metabolism

16 June 2026

Metabolic Founding CEO Eva Gladek & Strategic Initiatives Coordinator Serena Joury will present on its new white paper, BioHubs: Infrastructure for Resilience and Regeneration, which proposes BioHubs as a means of intentionally anchoring place-based regeneration in physical sites to support bioregionalism as a return to place. The paper ( released at the Katapult Future Fest in late May) provides 10 case studies on existing entities that fit the vision of BioHubs. Founding Director Thais Corral of Sinal do Vale in Brazil – one of the BioHubs profiled in the paper – will share on its work coordinating regeneration of 200,000-hectares in Recôncavo da Guanabara Bioregion.

Bioregional Open Dialogue 11: Living Systems – Bridging Bioregionalism and the Partnership Model

A conversation between Riane Eisler & Bill Baue facilitated by Eli Ingraham

18 May 

In her groundbreaking 1987 book The Chalice & The Blade, Riane Eisler introduced the world to Cultural Transformation Theory and Partnership Systems (as an alternative to current predominant Domination Systems) – which she has been advocating for ever since, through the Center for Partnership Systems.

In this special Bioregional Open Dialogue, r3.0 Research Fellow (and former Center for Partnership Systems CEO) Eli Ingraham will facilitate a conversation between Riane and r3.0 Senior Director Bill Baue, where they jointly explore how Bioregionalism actualizes cultural transformation to partnership systems.

Bioregional Open Dialogue 10: Indigenous & Bioregional Funding Flows Across Turtle Island  

Bioregional Open Dialogue 9: Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Bioregional Contexts

Joshua is also a core member of Deakin University’s Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) Lab and a Director of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Collective (IKSC) where he supports a number of regional, national and international partnerships and research projects aimed at utilising Indigenous knowledges and complexity for global systems innovation and change. He is author of several peer reviewed papers, including An Indigenous process method for conducting the literature review and Indigenous systems knowledge applied to protocols for governance and inquiry.

 Bioregional Open Dialogue 8: Limits of Limits
26 Feb 2026

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Bioregional Open Dialogue 7: Relationalized Finance in Bioregional Contexts
20 Jan 2026 

r3.0 kicked off its 2026 Open Dialogue series exploring an exciting new essay, Relationalized Finance for Generative Living Systems and Bioregions, with its co-authors, David Bollier and Natasha Hulst of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. 

Presenters:

• David Bollier works with the Schumacher Center for a New Economics as Reinventing the Commons Program Director, and writes on the commons on his blog at Bollier.org. His most recent books are Think Like a Commoner, Second Edition; The Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking; and Free, Fair and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons.

• Natasha Hulst works with the Schumacher Center for a New Economics on land commons and bioregional initiatives in Europe, and is also part of the Bioregional Weaving Labs, where she contributes to bioregional organizing and financing practices.

Bioregional Open Dialogue 4: Bioregioning in Australia
Michelle Maloney, Mary Graham, Kiran Kashyap
17 April 2025

The 4th r3.0 Open Dialogue explores bioregioning work in Australia through the diverse lenses of earth law, Indigenous relational governance, and municipal-scale work.

• Michelle Maloney introduces the big picture of non-Indigenous place based and bioregional work in Australia, honing in on the efforts of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) to advocate for bioregioning in Australia.
• Mary Graham,  Political Scientist, Philosopher  and Kombu-merri person from the Yugambeh Language Speaking Peoples, discusses the Relationalist Ethos and some of the oldest bioregional systems of governance in the world – those created by Aboriginal Australians.
• Kiran Kashyap shifts the focus to the neighbourhood and city scales, sharing how the work of Regen Sydney integrates bioregional approaches into a growing participatory movement on the ground.

Bioregional Open Dialogue 3: South Asia Bioregionalism Working Group
Namrata Kabra, Ashish Kothari, Nisha Mary Poulouse, Sonam Choden, Uttam Lai
24 March 2025

The Third r3.0 Open Dialogue spotlights the work of the South Asia Bioregionalism Working Group (SABRWG), through the perspectives of 5 key members:

• Namrata Kabra briefly introduces the origins of the group
• Ashish Kothari presents the group’s vision of South Asia in the bioregional context
• Nisha Mary Poulose presents on the Group’s  pre-district bioregional mapping, comparing North and South India and highlighting key differences
• Sonam Choden presents Himalaya as a bioregion, in particular from Bhutan’s point of view 
• Uttam Lai presents on Multi-hazard Mapping of the Teesta River Basin as a foundation for bioregional planning

Bioregional Open Dialogue 2: Bioregioning & Permaculture
Elyes Mkacher, Gloire Mudekuza, Julie Davenson
20 February 2025

The February Open Dialogue focuses on Bioregioning & Permaculture with our guests:

• Elyes Mkacher sharing his experience in Tunisia teaching permaculture to bioregionalists in the Design School as part of the Mediterranean Bioregional Hub;
• Gloire Mudekuza describing how Plethora Social Initiative supports residents of the Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda to practice permaculture; and
• Julie Davenson of the Soil & Climate Initiative discussing the role of permaculture in the development of bioregional bio-based economies.

Bioregional Open Dialogue 1: Histories of Bioregioning
Lyla June Johnston, Brandon Letsinger, Karie Crisp
24 January 2025

r3.0 devotes an Open Dialogue series to Bioregioning in the context of the Open Dialogues we already started in 2024. This is in expression of a repositioning of r3.0’s work program towards coherence creation in the context of collapse of our current economic system design and predominant colonialist cultures. At r3.0, we will focus on convenings, two-eyed bioregional knowledge commons design, and self-governance, in ways that bridge with Indigenous governance systems. This series of Bioregioning Open Dialogues is also designed to lead into r3.0’s 12th International Conferenceon September 9-11, a co-created event with a virtual global conference, connected to many bioregional Confluences around the world. In this first edition of this series of Open Dialogues, titled ‚Histories of Bioregioning‘, we discussed with Dr. Lyla June Johnston, Brian Letsinger and Karie Crisp and up to 85 participants during this session.

Bioregional Open Dialogue 0.2: Bridging Bioregional Waves
Earlier Wave: Ana Ruiz Diaz, David Haenke, Laura Kuri, Tad Montgomery
Current Wave: Melina Angel, Joe Brewer, Samantha Power, Daniel Christian Wahl
25 July 2024

The second Open Dialogue on bioregioning wove “first wave” bioregionalists with key players in the current wave of bioregionalists — including past r3.0 Conference Speaker Sam Power from the BioFi Project, as well as past Conference Provocateurs Melina Angel of the Regenerative Communities Network, Joe Brewer of the Design School for Regenerating Earth, and Daniel Christian Wahl, author of Designing Regenerative Cultures.

This initial session on exploring the past of bioregioning invited key players from the 1st wave into a dialogue to share their experiences & ideas, with Tad Montgomery, who reached out to David Haenke, a key player in organizing Bioregional Congresses at the bioregional (Ozarks) and Continental (North America) scales, as well as Ana Ruiz Diaz and Laura Kuri, who helped organize the first North American Bioregional Congress in Mexico in the 1980s. This is a fascinating dialogue with Ana, David, Laura, and Tad on the roots of bioregionalism — with a particular focus on the key role played by Continental Bioregional Congresses in growing the movement.