There is no master map of the world’s bioregions, because the work of defining them belongs to the people who live in each place. The Department of Bioregion does not adjudicate which bioregions are real or which ones take priority. Our role is to support place-based organizers building the bioregional layer of the regenerative future, in their own watersheds, on their own terms.
This section profiles the bioregional movements we are most directly connected to: the Cascadia Bioregion, one of the longest-running explicitly bioregional organizing contexts in North America, and the Turtle Island Bioregional Congress, the continental gathering that has carried the work forward since 1984. Many other bioregional efforts are alive and thriving worldwide, in many languages and cultures.