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Discovering your Life-Place: A First Bioregional Workbook leads readers to a new appreciation of their relationships with local natural systems through a practical, hands-on map-making exercise. The book is an exciting way to teach local ecology and natural science in either urban or rural areas for all ages.

A Green City Program for the San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond has an easily accessible format: it describes the present situation, agendas for short and long term changes, "fables" for how changes might occur and "visions" of what a Green City anywhere would be like. 

Reinhabiting a Separate Country is a collection of essays, natural history, biography, poems, and stories revealing Shasta Bioregion (Northern California) as a distinct area of the planetary biosphere. It has served as a model for indigenous collections in New York, the Ozarks, and the Rocky Mountains, among other places. 

Planet Drum's bi-annual review, Raise the Stakes, presented thought-provoking essays on issues ranging from restoration ecology to the greening of cities for 20 years. A "Circles of Correspondence" section described the activities of bioregional groups. See the Publications page for listings.

Publishing

Lectures, Seminars, Workshops & Performances

Staff members present talks and conduct seminars and workshops on bioregional topics for community, college and activist groups. Workshops teach participants to identify their bioregion through awareness of natural features and includes map-making activities.

Bioregionally based story-telling and performances are also available.

Workshops

Networking

Planet Drum provides networking services to start and assist bioregional groups, to provide resources and expertise, and to put people who are interested in particular subjects in touch with each other.

Gatherings

Planet Drum sponsors Shasta Bioregional Gatherings in Northern California and has co-sponsored the bi-annual Turtle Island Bioregional Gathering, a North American continental meeting of bioregionalists.

Bioregional Association

Planet Drum has helped develop the Bioregional Association of the Northern Americas. It is a membership-based organization that carries out ongoing activities needed by the growing number of groups and individuals who are concerned about life-places.

Networking

Library Resources

Our San Francisco office contains a unique archive of journals that relate ecological thinking to society, politics, and culture. It is open to members, researchers and others.

Library Resources

 
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Last updated April 17, 2008