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Ralph's Lighthouse Keeper Edition 32 is out, please read and share widely: Another (bioregional) world ‘is here’ … Ralph on the ‘Sustainability Ambassadors’ Podcast ... Sunday Thoughts ... Bioregional Nomads on the Road https://lnkd.in/eeQmeE7P

Today marks the last day of our r3.0 2025 Online Conference campaign, taking place next week on September 9, 10 and 11, 2025, in concert with up to 50 Confluences on 6 continents. We have curated a narrative about 'Learning How To Reinhabit Earth Together' through 'Braiding Bioregional Resilience & Regeneration.' The Sessions and Keynotes are seeds in our gardens to live in coherence and togetherness. We just have one shot to get this right in fractal ways. And again, we at r3.0 are extremely proud to present this curated narrative with extraordinary leaders in our field and with all the Confluences on 6 continents that work with us concurrently during those three days. There couldn't be a better place to be to reload batteries for the times in collapse that will come. Get tickets here: https://lnkd.in/ejke95gm; registration closes midnight on Sunday, September 7.

In dieser Präsentation in deutscher Sprache diskutiert r3.0 Managing Director Ralph Thurm in 30 Minuten den Status und die Chancen von authentischer Nachhaltigkeit in Zeiten von Kollaps. Auf Basis persönlicher Erfahrungen und strategischer Neuorientierungsnotwendigkeit für r3.0 erklärt er Konsequenzen der Fokussierung auf Bioregionalismus, und inwiefern hierdurch eine neue Klarheit entsteht, was man persönlich und beruflich loslassen muss und wie sich die Prioritäten neu ausrichten lassen. Mache weniger um mehr zu erreichen, und warum wir alle eine Trauerreise antreten werden, um zu neuer Energie und Tatendrang zu finden. Für viele Getriebene in was Ralph hashtag #ESGLaLaLand nennt, entsteht hier eine Möglichkeit um nachzudenken und das eigene Tun kritisch zu hinterfragen. In this presentation in German language, r3.0 Managing Director Ralph Thurm discusses the status and opportunities of authentic sustainability in times of collapse. Based on personal experiences and the need for strategic reorientation for r3.0, he explains the consequences of focusing on bioregionalism, and to what extent this creates new clarity, what you have to let go of personally and professionally and how priorities can be realigned. Do less to achieve more, and why we all need to embark on a grief journey to find new energy and drive. For many stressed out people in what Ralph calls hashtag #ESGLaLaLand, this creates an opportunity to reflect and critically question their own actions. https://lnkd.in/eutWCeJq

r3.0 2025 Online Conference, September 9, 10 & 11, 2025, in concert with up to 50 Confluences on 6 continents. In this pre-Conference week we portrait our Keynote Speakers in chronologogical order. The final Keynote, on Day 3 (our so-called Confluence Debrief Day), pairs two key figures in the development of the Bioregional Congressing practice. David Haenke will share on the fractal nature of Bioregional Congressing, which serves the emergence of ecological economies and nature nations. He'll illustrate his point by sharing the story of how the closing of the 2nd Ozark Area Community Congress (OACC II) in 1981 planted the seeds of the inaugural North American Bioregional Congress (NABC I) in 1984. Laura Kuri will share how her collaboration with colleagues to host the first NABC in the Global South -- hosted in Cuahunahuac, Mexico in 1996 -- introduced important new perspectives into the Bioregional Congressing practice. She will illustrate how these dynamics persist today in her ongoing activism to this day in the work of Bosque de Agua and other initiatives. Get tickets here: https://lnkd.in/ejke95gm

r3.0 2025 Online Conference, September 9 & 10, 2025, in concert with up to 50 Confluences on 6 continents. In this pre-Conference week we portrait our Keynote Speakers in chronologogical order. Please meet Outgrowing Modernity Author Vanessa Andreotti, who will close out Day 2 of the Conference with a Keynote that will start by identifying the current paradigm's limitations -- how "narrow boundary intelligence" (as Daniel Schmachtenberger calls it) underpins our "entitlement to entitlement.”   Extending the ideas she shared in her interview with us for the r3.0 Seeds Series, she'll contrast this with the emerging paradigm of what Schmachtenberger calls "wide boundary intelligence" that takes "responsibility for responsibility." After establishing these ideas, she will demonstrate how they apply to the bioregioning movement. Get tickets here: https://lnkd.in/ejke95gm

r3.0 2025 Online Conference, September 9 & 10, 2025, in concert with up to 50 Confluences on 6 continents. In this pre-Conference week we portrait our Keynote Speakers in chronologogical order. Please meet Dr. Lyla June Johnston. Her research documents the millennial-scale history of Native American bioregional landscape management through Indigenous Regenerative Ecosystem Design Strategies. In this Keynote, Lyla June will reflect on the intersectionality between Indigenous communities, knowledge, and regenerative practice, and the bioregioning movement. In particular, she will explore mutually respectful and mutually beneficial cross-cultural engagement grounded in agency and autonomy, not misappropriation and co-optation. Get tickets here: https://lnkd.in/ejke95gm

r3.0 2025 Online Conference, September 9 & 10, 2025, in concert with up to 50 Confluences on 6 continents. In this pre-Conference week we portrait our Keynote Speakers in chronologogical order. Please meet Joe Brewer & Penny L. Heiple, who will kick off the Conference with an Opening Keynote on 'How Bioregionalism Brings Coherence to Regeneration of the Earth.' They note that earth systems processes transcend single bioregions, establishing the need for trans-local organizing in partnerships of humans *and* partnerships of humans to earth systems. This approach to working with earth systems bypasses the political dilemma of collective action, and circumvents those undermining political action. And bioregions are the smallest holistic scale to pursue this approach, weaving across bioregions to move toward alignment with earth processes, which are nearing adverse tipping points that are woven in an interdependent web. Through direct bioregional collaboration, we can "let the land organize” us. Get tickets here: https://lnkd.in/ejke95gm

r3.0 2025 Online Conference, September 9 & 10, 2025, in concert with up to 50 Confluences on 6 continents. This week we portrait our individual speakers of online Session 4 – ‘Bioregional Resourcing – Regenerating & Sustaining Diverse Resource Flows’ Get tickets here: https://lnkd.in/ejke95gm How do we resource the bioregioning movement? That's the question we explore in Conference Session Four, which rounds out our series of panels. This includes financial provisioning, but it also applies more broadly to other ecological and social resources, such as water cycle and biocultural regeneration. Session Speakers will explore how this bioregional provisioning applies fractally across scales, from neighborhood to municipality levels, all the way up to continental and planetary scales; and also how it applies horizontally, across bioregions. Please meet Daniela Senkl of the University of Guelph, who will share on her research into opportunities for municipalities to advance beyond Doughnut measures by applying more rigorous context-based assessments of performance relative to ecological and social carrying capacity thresholds, and then explore how to scale up this approach to the bioregional level by integrating policy levers and citizen advocacy. Get tickets here: https://lnkd.in/ejke95gm

r3.0 2025 Online Conference, September 9 & 10, 2025, in concert with up to 50 Confluences on 6 continents. This week we portrait our individual speakers of online Session 4 – ‘Bioregional Resourcing – Regenerating & Sustaining Diverse Resource Flows’ Get tickets here: https://lnkd.in/ejke95gm How do we resource the bioregioning movement? That's the question we explore in Conference Session Four, which rounds out our series of panels. This includes financial provisioning, but it also applies more broadly to other ecological and social resources, such as water cycle and biocultural regeneration. Session Speakers will explore how this bioregional provisioning applies fractally across scales, from neighborhood to municipality levels, all the way up to continental and planetary scales; and also how it applies horizontally, across bioregions. Please meet Natalia Ortiz, who will share on her community work with the Fundacion Barichara Regenerativa developing a common vision and agenda of priorities for the next 12 years in the bioregion by starting on the landscape scale in Barichara, and how it weaves with her work cross-bioregionally with the North Andes Regeneration Fund to link Territorial Foundations into a national movement and advance Territorial Planning Schemes that influence norms and regulations to transform the existing corrupt governmental contexts through collaborative finance systems and knowledge sharing across bioregions. Get tickets here: https://lnkd.in/ejke95gm

r3.0 2025 Online Conference, September 9 & 10, 2025, in concert with up to 50 Confluences on 6 continents. This week we portrait our individual speakers of online Session 4 – ‘Bioregional Resourcing – Regenerating & Sustaining Diverse Resource Flows’ Get tickets here: https://lnkd.in/ejke95gm How do we resource the bioregioning movement? That's the question we explore in Conference Session Four, which rounds out our series of panels. This includes financial provisioning, but it also applies more broadly to other ecological and social resources, such as water cycle and biocultural regeneration. Session Speakers will explore how this bioregional provisioning applies fractally across scales, from neighborhood to municipality levels, all the way up to continental and planetary scales; and also how it applies horizontally, across bioregions. Please meet Will Ruddick, who will build on his interview informing r3.0's Seeds Series and share learnings from new book Grassroots Economics that documents how communities he works with in Kenya create commitment pools to create multigenerational cycles of regenerative activities as well as systems that permit recording of group memory, authentication of individuals within communities, and execution of agreements. Get tickets here: https://lnkd.in/ejke95gm