Unlabeled bioregional practices flourish widely across the United States.

Evidence

Writing and teaching about the environment can too easily become an exercise in despair, but bioregionalism is one welcome current within environmentalism that offers hope. By emphasizing the ecological boundaries and characteristics of places as well as the ways human communities interact with the natural dimensions of their homes, bioregionalism promotes local, practical, grassroots solutions to environmental and social problems. Despite the fact that most people have never heard of a “bioregion,” bioregional practices are flourishing across the US under a variety of names and guises, as Robert L. Thayer’s LifePlace: Bioregional Thought and Practice and David Sobel’s Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities demonstrate. — Karla Armbruster, Book Review, 5

Categorization

• SEED: The gap between the term’s obscurity and the practice’s spread is a useful angle for the book review — bioregionalism works even where unnamed.
• XREF: connects to: Bioregionalism identifies with place through dedicated observation and responsibility — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 428

Related

• Bioregionalism identifies with place through dedicated observation and responsibility (similarity 0.87)
• Successful bioregional practices resist easy transfer across places. (similarity 0.86)
• Bioregions are real but cannot be bounded with hard lines (similarity 0.82)
• Karla Armbruster — Book Review LifePlace Bioregional Thought and Practice (Robert L. Thayer) and Place-Based Education Connecting Classrooms and Communities (David Sobel) (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Bioregionalism identifies with place through dedicated observation and responsibility #expands (0.80) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 428