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Exploring a Sense of Place, How to create your own local program for reconnecting with Nature
Have you ever felt the desire to be more connected to the place where you live? The Exploring a Sense of Place guidebook will help you with your own process of discovery and reconnection with the natural world. This book will inspire you and show you how you can begin to develop your own sense of place and share it with your children, grandchildren, friends, family, neighbors or whomever you wish. The guidebook will also give you all the practical tools you need to design, develop, organize, and produce an Exploring a Sense of Place program specific to your bioregion.
96 pages, Spiral-bound
First published August 15, 2006
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September 1, 2019
This guidebook is based on a successful program called A Sense of Place, which was developed in northern California and has been replicated elsewhere. It is inspiring and very useful for any person or organization willing to help residents learn more about where they live so they'll care more about protecting it.
The adaptable, modifiable way the authors suggest doing that is through a series of monthly presentations, discussions, and field trips that cover topics as they relate to the particular bioregion: geology, weather and climate, seasons, history of the indigenous people, the watershed, wildlife, and native plants. The pivotal focus is typically on the local watershed.
Everyone should end up being able to answer such questions as these:
- When you turn on your faucet, where does the water come from? Can you trace it back to local storm systems?
- When you flush the toilet, to what body of water does that effluent go?
- From where you are sitting, point north.
- How many days until the moon is full?
- When do the deer rut where you live?
- What plant or animal is the barometer of environmental health for your bioregion? How is it doing?
I liked this helpful bit from the guidebook description about what it is not:
- A hiking club
- A birdwatching group
- A way to learn Latin names of local floral and fauna
- Just something to do to meet people
Even though the idea is based on bioregionalism,I would choose to add that it is not an environmental activist group. Keep the focus on "our home" to defuse the kneejerk reaction some people might have if they think they're going to be preached to or that the program is only for liberals or "tree-huggers." Find common ground. Grow roots!
The adaptable, modifiable way the authors suggest doing that is through a series of monthly presentations, discussions, and field trips that cover topics as they relate to the particular bioregion: geology, weather and climate, seasons, history of the indigenous people, the watershed, wildlife, and native plants. The pivotal focus is typically on the local watershed.
Everyone should end up being able to answer such questions as these:
- When you turn on your faucet, where does the water come from? Can you trace it back to local storm systems?
- When you flush the toilet, to what body of water does that effluent go?
- From where you are sitting, point north.
- How many days until the moon is full?
- When do the deer rut where you live?
- What plant or animal is the barometer of environmental health for your bioregion? How is it doing?
I liked this helpful bit from the guidebook description about what it is not:
- A hiking club
- A birdwatching group
- A way to learn Latin names of local floral and fauna
- Just something to do to meet people
Even though the idea is based on bioregionalism,I would choose to add that it is not an environmental activist group. Keep the focus on "our home" to defuse the kneejerk reaction some people might have if they think they're going to be preached to or that the program is only for liberals or "tree-huggers." Find common ground. Grow roots!
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