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Bioregional Olympics: Roots of Action In 1998, the Director of Planet Drum Foundation and another member of the Bioregional Association of the Northern Americas trekked to Nagano, Japan and spent several exciting weeks working with Guard Fox Watch, a bioregional action group whose aim was to raise consciousness around the issue of the Olympics’ effect on […]
Read MoreBahia de Caraquez, Ecuador We closed the first community meeting to initiate the women’s compost/garden project in Fanca feeling as though it was the last hundred yards of a mile long race. Here’s a field spotter’s view of how the whole event developed and finished. Nicola Mears met with me to discuss being hired as […]
Read MoreBahia de Caraquez, Ecuador Coastal Ecuador seems to breed imaginative future scenarios. It could be the sheer biological richness of the country, mixed with hard-pressed economic necessity, but something definitely inspires a sense of starting over in new and different ways. People aren’t generally inhibited about having large visions. One Bahia friend enunciates new ideas […]
Read MoreBahia de Caraquez, Ecuador The home for most life on our planet is in water. It is a soupy, form-shifting medium where food can be chased, nibbled, or just plucked as it floats by. Plants and animals that don’t actually live in water require it anyway. All plants need to absorb moisture. Terrestrial animals manage […]
Read MoreBahia de Caraquez, Ecuador August is the “gringo month” on the coast according to Patricio Tamariz, who believes it brings weather that resembles the Pacific Northwest. Days usually begin with gray clouds that can last into the night, but occasionally surrender to the radiator hot sun of the equator for a few hours in the […]
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Three Dispatches are below from Japan, China and Mongolia(most photos by Judy Goldhaft, some by Peter Berg and some by Kimiharu To) Bioregionalism Finds Eager Audiences In Japan Planet Drum Foundation concluded a three week, five city tour of Japan on May 30th titled “Bioregionalism: Proactive Approaches to Sharing the Earth.” Peter Berg and Judy Goldhaft […]
Read MoreNobody Wins If Nature Loses: Environmental risks posed by 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah San Francisco Bay Guardian Salt Lake City Olympic bid executives were furious when they learned that Nagano, Japan, had beaten them out for the 1998 Winter Games by allegedly paying $100,000 per vote to members of the International Olympic Committee. Determined […]
Read MoreBioregional Olympics: Environmental “Greenwashing” of 2002 Olympic Winter Games Background Documentation Index of Materials The Olympic Movement and the Environment “Report and Recommendations” written by the Materials and Resource Management Working Group Guard Fox Watch Monitoring Recommendations Letter from Environmental Advisory Committee Ecological Standards for Activities Prior, During, and After 2002 Winter Olympic Games In […]
Read MoreThe Post-Environmentalist Directions of Bioregionalism a lecture by Peter Berg given at the University of Montana, Missoula, April 10, 2001. The central subject I’m going to be talking about is the biosphere, the thin skin of life that surrounds our planet. A very thin covering, like our own skin. And the question is: how do […]
Read MoreAmy Jewel, Field Assistant (Writing from Memphis, Tennessee) “Well, we HAVE to do it.” These words were spoken more than once over the past few weeks by Patrick Rivadenerra, Director of the new Department for Tourism and the Environment, about accomplishing the objectives of his department. They were used yet again last week during a […]
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