Shaping resilient futures in South Devon and beyond
We’re here to open up conversations and build collaborations for long-term climate resilience. From our own bioregion of South Devon, with the many human systems and ecosystems alive within it, we reconnect people and place to prepare for climate resilient and biodiverse futures—where communities learn together, systems rebalance and landscapes flourish.
For millennia, our societies have been organised at a bioregional scale. Today we face a complex climate, biodiversity and resource polycrisis. This requires a systemic response–strategy, design and action with an open invitation to participate.
How a bioregional approach can deliver regeneration
As humans, we are connected to the wider living system in all its astounding complexity. BLC embraces this. We work simultaneously in different ways, and on related tracks, in order to support the emergence of a healthy bioregion. A bioregional 'container' makes common sense because by working within it, actions for climate adaptation become practical and regenerative principles can be explored and tested.
Welcome to the bioregion of South Devon
Get a sense for the bioregion that BLC calls home. From the Tamar to the Teign, up onto Dartmoor and down to the coast, there is so much to learn.
Working locally and globally
Explore BLC's interdisciplinary projects and the programmes they sit within, developed as long-term efforts towards economic and ecological revitalisation within the bioregion.
Designing strategies for South Devon
The Lab
Discover our dynamic action learning space on the River Dart in South Devon – where we explore systems at work, develop ideas and foster collaborations to reveal new possibilities for emergent futures.
Enter the lab
Listening to water
Hearing spring water emerge from the ground at the Leechwell
Hearing spring water emerge from the ground at the Leechwell
Rill storytelling
Sharing The Saltmarsh Project during BLC's Learning Days
Sharing The Saltmarsh Project during BLC's Learning Days
Bacteria at work
Oil or chemicals? It may not be what you think. Good bacteria is at work in the saltmarshes
Oil or chemicals? It may not be what you think. Good bacteria is at work in the saltmarshes
Symbiosia
One tree in relationship with its environment: https://thijsbiersteker.com/symbiosia
One tree in relationship with its environment: https://thijsbiersteker.com/symbiosia
The way Norway is advertised has changed drastically over the last 10 years. Now they show the rugged nature and the powerful weather, even though its rainy.
Norway's character
From Vestland North Sea Blueprints
From Vestland North Sea Blueprints
Clare workshop
Artist Clare Parker at BLC's creative meet-up
Artist Clare Parker at BLC's creative meet-up
Beautiful, flowing, fluid, wild, tender, sensitive, sensual, provoking river of an exhibition... A revelation! I knew nothing about saltmarshes, but it's a feeling you get from the show that helps you understand, I was there for an hour... It was sophisticated, powerful, emotional... A better way to communicate.
Thanks again for putting together the wonderful evening on the saltmarsh. I’ve been to many nature inspired talks and presentations but never one to combine the scientific message with artistic impression. For me it definitely imprints the message and inspires action. I would love to see this approach taken forward as a way to engage more people in the importance of nature recovery.
We need to remember how stories and myths create a space for the imagination and this in turn makes new stories and possibilities. What is so wonderful about BLC is that they alchemise potential and manifest through new thinking in an extraordinary way. This is the only way we can deal with the future.
I found the Devon Doughnut session on employment absolutely brilliant. It was energising and hopeful to be a part of a collaborative group seeking innovative strategies to build a healthy and sustainable local economy. I was motivated by the mix of people and ideas and look forward to my continuing involvement.
Insights from BLC
Explore news, reports, research and discussions about our South Devon bioregion and about the wider bioregional movement.
