What is a Bioregional Learning Center?
Bioregional Learning Centers collect, analyze, and share information about the resources, welfare, challenges, and regenerative efforts and solutions in the bioregions in which they are located. Each of these bioregions are made of ecological, social, and economic ecosystems, and the learning centers consider the integration and influence of these ecosystems in their efforts.
Bioregional Learning Centers have a variety of functions. They are research and experiment stations, data repositories, educational institutions, content creators and disseminators, knowledgeable about the interplay of technology and traditional techniques, advisors and extension agents to local land users, regeneration advocates, and more. They take an objective, holistic, long-term view of the situation, problems, and solutions of a given area and work to improve it, doing so in an open manner, so that everyone can benefit from their work.
Each bioregion is unique, and so these learning centers exist all over the world. And while each center serves its particular region, they are all joined together in an informal network that freely shares data, learnings, news, resources, and ideas, so that all can receive the benefits of each others’ work. Centers also regularly join together and work across regions on issues and programs that require a larger effort of data-gathering, analysis, and solution definition.
Mud Valley Institute is a participating member of Ecosystem Restoration Communities.
In early 2023, through our alignment with Quinta Vale da Lama, we became a part of Ecosystem Restoration Communities (ERC), a network of over 60 like-minded communities in 30 countries. These communities work locally to return life to degraded ecosystems and improve livelihoods, also sharing their work and knowledge with other members of the network. You can learn more about ERC at ERC.earth
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