Design School for Regenerating Earth

People all over the world are organizing in their bioregions for the regeneration of the Earth. It's time for humanity to come home.

The Design School for Regenerating Earth

When Joe Brewer wrote his book, The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth, it was to show both the seriousness of the predicament we are in and to demonstrate that it really is possible to regenerate the Earth at the scales needed. The pathway he describes in the book is to organize ourselves around holistic, integrated landscapes known as bioregions, and to connect those bioregions into a planetary network with learning exchanges between them.

Members of the Design School for Regenerating Earth are organizing together on the ground in bioregions while simultaneously building the planetary network of learning exchanges through our online learning community. All of this enables focused actions to arise with clear design and intent so that we can effectively regenerate at the bioregional scale and create interactions and supports between and across bioregions.

The challenges humanity and the Earth are facing now are extremely complex and unlike anything that has come before in the history of the planet. In order to regenerate the Earth at the scales needed, we must consciously and intentionally evolve humanity into a planetary species and learn to cooperate at unprecedented levels. Members of the Design School are choosing to step fully into this challenge and do what we can to embody and live into the Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth.

Membership Includes...

1) Online learning journeys and courses geared toward sharing and directly applying knowledge and skills to the work of organizing on the ground in our bioregions. We blend theory and practice and apply what we learn in the real world as we learn it.

2) Access to the Bioregional Learning Exchange space where we facilitate learning exchanges across the bioregions of our network. We offer live sessions geared toward optimizing learning exchanges and a dedicated space for sharing updates, stories, and events happening in our bioregions. 

3) The opportunity to join or host Place-Based Hubs. We have several place-based groups actively organizing around earth regeneration in their regions, many of which also host Place-Based Hubs in the Design School. These Hubs represent various nested scales of organizing -- from watersheds, to landscapes, to bioregions, all the way up to sub-continental scales. You have the opportunity to join a Hub in your region or initiate your own Hub.

4) Pathways to participate in bioregional activations, immersions, and other activities in the bioregions of our network. Bioregional organizers are hosting activities in their landscapes to help activate bioregional awareness, weave bioregional dialogues within and between landscapes, and provide shared language and shared tools & resources for organizing for regeneration at the landscape scale. You can help organize these activities in your own landscape and/or participate in them in other landscapes for your own learning.

5) The opportunity to host activities or spaces in the school. Members who engage regularly in the community have the opportunity to lead activities or host spaces within the school's Community Spaces area -- activities such as guilds, workgroups, design labs, themed dialogues, courses, and more. We consider these member-led activities to be central to the culture and breadth of the school.

6) Meaningful connection and collaboration with like-hearted and like-minded peers from around the world, all committed to bringing their gifts fully in service to life.

Choose Your Level of Contribution

We offer various contribution options for membership in the Design School. Your contribution goes into a Fund that is circulated back to our members to support their organizing efforts on the ground in their bioregions. 

All contribution levels get you the same access and benefits in the school. We offer a lifetime membership as well as monthly and annual payment options, with an 18% discount for annual. Please choose a contribution level that honestly reflects your commitment level and your capacity to give.

We have also created a scholarship fund to provide help for those who cannot afford the membership dues. If you have additional resources, please consider the Pay-It-Forward option (the Ether plan) to support someone else who wouldn't otherwise be able to join.

Please email us at [email protected] if you'd like to gift your donation to a specific person or if you have any other special requests.

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“I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains itself unchanged. I mean a world that evolves, as life on earth has evolved for three billion years, toward ever greater diversity, elegance, beauty, self-awareness, interrelationship, and spiritual realization.”

-Donella Meadows, Co-Author of the Limits to Growth Report