New Functionalities Empowering Your Work Making bioregional education easy, for everyone and everywhere. 00:00 check in 06:02 What does ARK stand for? 06:38 Quiz – Do you know this bird? 08:05 Overview of new functionalities 08:40 map view 15:20 MS login 18:30 verification reminder 20:00 recap 21:40 MediaWiki 24:08 Q&A 25:00 Trash Heroes (Rahel) 27:35 […]
Mapping points of interest & new activity dashboard What’s inside:Part 1 – Arrival ⛵️⛵️00.00 – 06.00 ArrivalPart 2 – Background for this release 🧑🏫🧑🏫06:00 – 06.20: New functionalities – overview06.20 – 7:25: Project overview07:25 – 9:18: Teaching a new world map with the help of Bioregional Education09:18 – 11:00 Bringing Bioregional Education into your neighborhood with place-based […]
Commons and specimens The Green Steps Nature Guide Training consist of 4 online mentoring sessions and 14 assignments to be completed individually. While the assignments focus more on the pedagogical aspects of the training, e.g., explaining how to design educational outdoor activities for kids using the basic theory of the Montessori Method, the online mentoring […]
Ecoregions and species Green Steps is currently offering a hybrid Nature Guide Training to all parents and adults involved with childcare that are interested in understanding and experimenting with the benefits of nature education for personal or family purposes. This training is described as hybrid, with online and offline assignments that can be done from […]
Abstract: This article looks into the psychology of why we do not react to climate change with the urgency which is needed, and explains the neurology behind human fight and flight behavior. It conceives a learning platform which combines positive communication with an infrastructure of human motivation. Originally published by Knut Wimberger in February 2020 […]
The last three months were really about making our most basic value proposition work: Moving away from an anthropocentric worldview, by connecting people through and with the blue whales of land based life, i.e. ancient trees. We shared with you how to map trees within a commons and how kickstart an outdoor learning space by […]
Our white paper considers the establishment of a meritocracy, a form of decentralized government, in which everybody is rewarded for the purposeful contribution to society in the form of learning and / or action – organized within the scientific entities of eco- and bioregions. The background for this idea is based on the research of […]
Our March crew call happened on Spring Equinox and covered a wide range of new functionalities accompanied – as always – with the pedagogical and ecological theory behind our development steps. We introduce ecologist’s James Gibson radical 1979 hypothesis that the “value and meaning of things” in the environment can be directly perceived. He claimed […]
Our February crew call gave us the opportunity to take a step back from the development grind and look at our project with the eyes of a newbie. Our long time supporter Hans Galliker invited a few people from Zurich based Environmental Humanities, a NGO that perceives the Environment through the Humanities: The enormous scope […]
Nuclear warheads did not win the cold war. It was blue jeans. Leopard tanks will not win the war in the Ukraine. A conditional basic income will. Join me in this essay in a vision of agile democracies, where power, wealth and responsibilities are truly shared.