For the past year, in cooperation with Dark Matter Labs, we have been building the foundations for the creation of a Bioregional Financing Facility (BFF) for the Tay Bioregion. A BFF is an ecosystem of tools and institutions that can catalyse the flow of funds into and through the Bioregion, in a way that is…
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In Part One of this two part update on our Bioregional Financing Facility work, we explored the systemic challenges facing regenerative finance in the Tay Bioregion and why a Bioregional Financing Facility (BFF) is needed to bridge the gap between regenerative ambition and investable reality. In this second part, we turn to the question at the…
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Having completed our Stocktake & Gap Analysis in January of this year—and thanks to the support of the Systemic Climate Action Collaborative, we’ve spent the past six months steadily feeling our way toward laying the foundations of a Bioregional Financing Facility (BFF) for the Tay Bioregion. In this first of a two part update on…
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In a world defined by cascading global crises — climate instability, biodiversity loss, economic inequality, and cultural fragmentation — it can feel as though the systems sustaining life are fraying beyond repair. Yet within this web of interconnection lies a profound opportunity for renewal. At Bioregioning Tayside, we believe one promising path forward is the…
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Over the last couple of months we have been working with map maker Dan Harris on this beautiful new map of the Tay Bioregion. We wanted to frame the region through its watery landscapes, given that the Bioregion is based on the River Tay Catchment System and in Dan’s map you can see all the…
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Building on the ecological baseline undertaken for the River Ericht Catchment Restoration Initiative and as part of our Bioregional Financing Facility work (see previous posts), we worked with Palladium again to undertake a high level opportunity map of nature restoration across the whole Tay Bioregion. You can view the slide deck here. We are now…
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Bioregioning Tayside’s latest and most ambitious project to date has been to begin building Scotland’s first Bioregional Financing Facility (BFF). The team is now expanding thanks to funding from the Systemic Climate Action Collaborative and we are delighted to welcome Rosa Brand. Read our interview with Rosa below to find out more! Rosa in the…
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Last month we received news from the Scottish Rural Network confirming that they will support us for a fourth time to pilot Hyper-Local Food Plans in Tayside. This project builds on our work on kickstarting the conversation around ‘Feeding Tayside Through The Climate Crisis in 2023, on strengthening and developing Community-Led Food Growing in Tayside…
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Bioregioning Tayside is proud to welcome poet Jim Mackintosh as their Makar. The contemporary Bioregioning movement has strong connections to this ‘vital truth’ through the American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder, who played a pivotal role in the development and articulation of Bioregioning in the 1970’s and 1980’s through his promotion of a deep ecological…
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We’ve just published three new StoryMaps about our projects. The River Ericht Catchment Restoration Initiative (RECRI) StoryMap shares the work we have been doing on baselining the human and biotic communities of this important sub catchment in the River Tay system – in preparation for the RECRI partnership’s planned catchment-wide regeneration initiative. Mapping Community-Led Growing…
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