We Must Design The Future

How do we respond to freshwater depletion, novel toxins, nutrient pollution, species extinction, soil degradation, deforestation, and climate change? Why do our cultural institutions seem unable to care for the earth? How do we restore our human and cultural relationship to place?

We imagine a future where every watershed is known by its inhabitants and tended for future generations. Watershed by watershed we regenerate the Earth.

We practice and teach stewardship through seasonal work and simple living on ecologically important lands
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What Is The Guild?

The Ecosystem Guild is a network of practitioners with the shared purpose of regenerating public trust landscapes in the Salish Sea. We organize professional-quality technical assistance and labor to rebuild our ecological commons. We cultivate a culture capable of acting on our values to regenerate ecosystems. We organize around the wheel of the year.

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We design and construct the physical and social infrastructure that enables us to:

  1. Gather at Biocultural Restoration Field Stations to work, study and play.
  2. Weave our community networks into Bioregional Strongholds that regenerate place-based economies.
  3. Cultivate peer-to-peer knowledge management using the Salish Sea Restoration Platform.
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Why A Guild?

A Guild   /ə gild/

1.  An association of people for mutual aid or the pursuit of a common goal; 2. (in ecology) a group of species that have similar requirements and play a similar role within an ecological community.

As a global people, we face deforestation, climate change, biodiversity loss, topsoil degradation, artificial intelligence, novel species, nutrient pollution, and freshwater depletion, while riding in a fragile colonial-industrial social system addicted to cheap energy and coersive resource extraction.

That isn’t going to end well. We need to invent and invest in social systems that restore our common ecological infrastructure: food, water, shelter, and our ability to care for each other. One way to start is to take a step away from industrial habits, reduce our consumption, and develop direct relationships with the lands and waters where we live, in the company of colleagues.
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