This year we expanded our work to include youth. We experimented by discussing basic Bioregional Urbanism ideas with a group of teens in Cambridge. These ideas include: 1) Bioregion-your life place or life region 2) Urbanism-how we create our world, our places, our homes, our cities 3) Stewardship -understanding and caring for our 7 core resources  (water, food, energy, people, land, biodiversity, and waste as resource) 4) One Planet living - we have one planet, and we have to share the resources of the planet. Certain people over consume while others don't get their fair share. How can we change this together? 5) Scaled thinking-every action affects all scales from the cell, to the person, to the family, to the neighborhood, to the city, to the bioregion, to the nation, to the planet. 6) Living beings- how do we make our places, our homes, our cities with living beings at the center? 7) Co-create -we have to work together to make our life places better 8) Shared vision and goals-to work together we need shared vision, which includes all of us and is more than any of us.

What we learned: The teens quickly understood these basic principles. They actually guessed many of these ideas, including shared goals. And they   remembered these ideas the next day and used them to understand soil science. This illustrated to our team that bioregional ideas may be inherent in us, but this thinking is not supported by our contemporary education. As we work to transform our bioregions, we're wondering how our education and professional training needs change.

We've authored a chapter for the book Transformative Harmony, an edited collection of essays by Ananta Giri of Madras Institute of Development Studies, India. Transformative harmony is the process of changing cultural systems that perpetuate poverty, discrimination, and environment degradation, to systems that fundamentally benefit all living beings, including all people. We believe Bioregional Urbanism supports this goal.  The book is going to press this summer!   This chapter explores the flexible framework of Bioregional Urbanism as a practice method that enables  transformative  harmony in sustainable development. It explores Earthos' efforts during the past eight years to practice collaboratively with living systems and each other, transcending national boundaries, immediate short term demands and disciplinary barriers.