Our Vision Is Our Remembering
Our Vision
Remembering our embedded belonging to the living world invites us to reimagine our social, cultural, and economic systems according to ecological webs of relationships. Our vision is of a culturally vibrant, resilient, and connected Front Range Bioregion.
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(noun): A geographically and hydrologically defined area characterized by distinct ecological features that together form a coherent biocultural home.
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“The Commons” points to the living realities of shared place — the commonality of the ecologies and resources for which all residents of a place share responsibility, and on which all residents depend.
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Remembering our embedded belonging to the living world invites us to reimagine our social, cultural, and economic systems according to ecological webs of relationships. Commoning on a bioregional level directs our attentions and energies to where we can directly relate to the consequences of our stewardship, labor, and care.
Our Mission
Coordinating regenerative cultural and ecological activities and relationships along the Front Range towards the founding of a bioregional Commons.
Backbone the Regeneration of the Front Range
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Story and Resource Coordination Among Organizations
Supporting organizations undertaking diverse activities embed together, learn from each other, and grow in complexity and harmony as a larger ecology of bioregional responsibility and transformation.
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Bioregional Self-Determination
The Front Range of the Rockies is a particular home for us to have — we have the endless plains to the East, red deserts to the South, towering mountains to the West, high plains and river basins to the North. It is a long, narrow strip of land where mountains and grasslands meet.
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Foster Complex Harmonies + Ecotones
Bioregional organization weaves organizations along the Front Range corridor.
“Our mutual interdependence is the basis of our mutual responsibility for care and reciprocity.”
All for the Commons
A Bioregional Commons recognizes the wellbeing of human and natural systems (neighborhoods, watersheds, ecosystems, soil) as shared resources that the people who live in and depend on that land collectively steward.