This was shared in the Regenerate Cascadia Hylo by Bill Baue of r3.o today 2-21-25.
Riding the energy from yesterday’s 2nd Open Dialogue in r3.0‘s 2025 Series, focused on Bioregioning & Permaculture, I’m posting links to the recording, deck, and resources. Big thanks to Elyes Mkacher Gloire Mudekuza & Julie Davenson for their deeply inspiring presentations.
Consolidated links on Open Dialogues Landing Page: https://lnkd.in/eyU9qKQf
Recording: on YouTube…
Deck: https://lnkd.in/eKxwMi9R
Resources Document: https://lnkd.in/eZr_Wi7E
A few of my perspectives:
Elyes kicked us off perfectly by identifying the integral relationship between bioregioning & permaculture, in particular by telling the story of his own experience bridging these realms, with his delivery of the Permaculture Design Course (PDC) and participation in the Mediterrannean Bioregional Hub in the Design School for Regenerating Earth — where he is currently delivering a PDC! (We informally surveyed how many of the participants had attended a PDC, and I’d guess it was at least 1/3 of the ~50 attendees.)
Gloire‘s presentation was illuminating on so many fronts, starting from his own history of forced displacement from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which he used to both establish the distinction between migration and displacement, underlining the inherent trauma of the latter that requires healing. His discovery of permaculture helped him apply a place-based approach to navigating his experience of forced displacement, and his founding of PLETHORA SOCIAL INITIATIVE enables extending this to his peers at the Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda, healing the land as a means of healing their own trauma.
Julie picked up on Gloire’s widening the lens from permaculture to regenerative agriculture more broadly by sharing a bunch of great examples of her work in the Forests of the Northeast bioregion. She also continued to scope out by discussing the policy implications of adopting permaculture principles and a bioregioning ethic.
The ensuring dialogue continued to deepen our inquiry:
Wendy McLean asked how Julie’s examples interrelate;
Kate Dyer inquired how permaculture practices draw (or don’t?) on traditional land management & farming;
Neil Davidson asked if they see drivers for increased permaculture/ resilience in the current levels of political unrest & growing collapse awareness;
Clare Attwell asked how we can share these stories to inspire better planning for ecological/social policy; and
Midi Berry asked how permaculture principles / ethics can be applied in her bioregion (that includes Los Angeles) with emergency displacement of 200,000 people — and displacement of billions of tons of toxic waste in the wake of the LA fires…
I already look forward to the next Open Dialogues (info coming soon)!