Here are a bunch of essays exploring different aspects of the Ecosystem Guild as a piece of how we might grow a Regenerative Bioregional Culture that includes something like Restoration Camping. Each essay was written at a different time under a different prompt, and in many cases in a hurry without professional quality editing. Enjoy, and feel free to make a contribution.
Developing Focus on Bioregional Infrastructures
Infrastructure (n.) – the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society or enterprise ...
Update 11 :: Frost 2022
This is a different kind of update. There is no play-by-play description of activites. Instead here is a snapshot of ...
Why Biocultural Restoration Field Stations?
A reflection on philosophical positioning on the eve of Camp Skykomish The goal of “biocultural restoration field stations” is to ...
Enabling Conditions for Restoration
This is one of a series of essays inspired by a study group hosted by Joe Brewer and Diego Galli ...
Notes on Creating Wild Spaces In Public Places
There is no space afforded the wild in public life. There is no zoning for wildness. In our cities, wild ...
Ecological Site Assessment
This page is reserved for tactics, resources, and results of site assessments methods we are testing in the Green Cove ...
Three Capabilities for Stewardship
Green Cove Watershed could be the most cherished stream in South Puget Sound. Olympia offers art shows to promote “the ...
Three Simple Goals: Water, Biomass, Diversity
Civilizations degrade ecological systems. Ours is no different (see the essay on restoration for a summary.) Empowered by fossil fuels our ...
The Cycles of Plant-Soil Work
Plant-soil work is perhaps the fundamental process of ecosystem stewardship. Every landscape on earth is shrouded in a green cloak ...
Systems Assessment For Stewardship Design
DRAFT This is a framework for integrated social-ecological systems assessment to support the mission of the Ecosystem Guild. WARNING–very abstract ...
Multiple Forms of Capital—Building Ecosystems Among Neighbors
Do all relationships hinge on money? Obviously not. But why is cash compensation so important in some partitions of life ...
Not an Entertainment Business – A Pledge to Support Shared Systems
Part of the vital challenge presented by ecosystem camping is to get past a model where we primarily consume resources ...
Restoration Camping Design Principles
If we want ecosystem restoration and stewardship based on honor and reciprocity we need to develop new kinds of institutions ...
The Cast of Characters—Everyone Gets Nourished
Reciprocity is the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit, whereas a gift is a thing given willingly ...
Restoration as Craft, Restoration as Industry – The Tortilla Analogy
Ricardo Tabayoyon taught me that the secret of making tortillas is in many small things: the warmth of the water ...
Three Parts of A Restoration Camping System
I’d propose there are three sub-systems to develop in restoration camping: the community, the camping, and the programming. Because restoration ...
Camping on the Trail of Restoration
Republished from the Ecosystem Restoration Camps, the inspiration for the Ecosystem Guild, established in the Spanish Altiplano in 2017. I ...
Why Catch the Rain?
Republished from Ecosystem Restoration Camps, the inspiration for the Ecosystem Guild, established in The Netherlands and Spanish Altiplano in 2017 ...
Do You Like Camping?
Imagine a campground that is not a parking spot for rent, where the line between garden and wilderness is unclear ...
A Day at Camp
You awaken to the grey light and rustling of camp. The rain stopped at dawn but branches are still dripping ...