Curriculum for the Bioregion

Higher education must lead the way in preparing learners for participation in a world where the complex issues of place-based sustainability—environmental quality, community health and wellbeing, and social equity and justice—are paramount.

Curriculum for the Bioregion engages faculty in exploring place-based sustainability concepts and building them into a broad array of courses and disciplines. We bring together faculty, staff, students, experts, and community leaders throughout Washington, British Columbia, Oregon, and Northern California to strengthen place-based sustainability education.

And because a community is, by definition, placed, its success cannot be divided from the success of its place…its soils, forests, grasslands, plants and animals, water, light, and air. The two economies, the natural and the human, support each other; each as the other’s hope of a durable and a livable life.

– Wendell Berry, farmer, poet