Artificial Intelligence is not just a technology problem. It is an ecological force acting on the ecosystem of human relationships. Every civilization is held together by an invisible ecology. Not only forests and watersheds, but bonds of attention, trust, obligation, and care. Families, friendships, mentorships, disagreements, reconciliations—these form a living network through which meaning flows. This is the ecology of… Read more →
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The GFL “Living Bioregion Model”
Let’s have a go at this, using clear and simple language understandable to the layperson: If you want one flagship that makes the idea undeniable, build: The GFL “Living Bioregion Model” (MVP → full platform) A public bioregional health dashboard spanning ecological/economic/social/cultural dimensions (explicitly consistent with your GFL articulation). (Genesee Finger Lakes Bioregion) A scenario room: 5–10 “what if” levers… Read more →
How Can We Understand Ourselves Better?
I’d like to think about planetary intelligence as getting to know and understand ourselves better, from the planetary down to the bioregional, local, and personal level. If we can make available to everyone a sense of the whole—of Gaia, a miracle even without the fake spiritual trappings that some claim to have special access to—of the planet and all her… Read more →
An Outline for a Themed Dialogue at DSRE
Looking at https://youtu.be/op3ZP5RwS_M, help me refine an outline for a “themed dialogue” at the Design School for Regenerating Earth on planetary and bioregional intelligence, highlighting the important questions that the conversation should address. Here’s my thinking: (1) Background (working with AI on the Possible Planet book, wanting to understand AI’s highest potentials, David Grinspoon et al on “planetary intelligence”); (2)… Read more →
The Next Step
It seems to me that the next step for the lab is to develop a community of interest around the idea of planetary intelligence. It makes sense to have that be bioregional, as one of the first tasks is to build a practical example of bioregional intelligence using the Genesee Finger Lakes region. I’d like to extend an invitation to… Read more →
Gemini on “Building Bioregional Intelligence”
Building bioregional intelligence is the practice of developing a “terrain of consciousness”—a collective ability for communities to see, think, and act as part of their local ecological systems. It shifts focus from arbitrary political borders to natural boundaries like watersheds, soil types, and climate patterns to organize human activity regeneratively. Core Components of Bioregional Intelligence Watershed Consciousness: Understanding life through… Read more →
Building Bioregional Intelligence, Part 2 (Actually a Prequel)
Below is a conceptual prologue—deliberately non-technical in tone, but rigorous in scope—that can introduce later material on dashboards, data architectures, and AI-enabled commons. It is written to stand on its own as a framing essay on Building Bioregional Intelligence, using the Genesee Finger Lakes (GFL) as an illustrative case without treating it as exceptional. Building Bioregional Intelligence A prologue From… Read more →