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Planet Drum Foundation’s unique focus is  the idea that everyone lives in a bioregion*. 

We contribute to the understanding of living-in-place through Planet Drum's Current Projects: 

PD Upcoming Events

Get involved! Upcoming Events is a calendar of ongoing or date-specific Workshops and activities in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond in which Planet Drum Foundation is participating.

Green City Calendar

Attention volunteers and participants! Daily and monthly listings in the Green City Calendar serving the San Francisco Bay Area for a wide range of sustainability and environmental events.

Eco Ecuador

Eco Ecuador is an ongoing project in collaboration with an urban community located in Ecuador to create a sustainable local ecology. We have been working there since 1999. There is a by-year sequence of Field Manager and Bioregional Education Reports accompanied by many photographs, as well as Dispatches from Ecuador by Planet Drum Director Peter Berg.  

Pictures in row are from Field Report-Set1,2010

Winter Olympics Monitoring Actions / Guard Fox Watch

See the Press Release in September 2007 detailing the dismal state of environmental safeguards for 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Bioregional Impacts, Ecological Implications, and Recommendations for Winter Olympics is the latest summarized overview from Guard Fox Watch.

Specific advocated actions can be found in Bioregional Impacts, Ecological Implications, and Recommendations—2006 Winter Olympic Games (English) and Impatto Bioregionale, Implicazioni Ecologiche E Raccomandzioni Per I Giochi Invernali Del 2006 A Torino—Italia (Italian).

There is also a wrap-up about actions surrounding the Salt Lake Olympics (2002) and an archive of related documents.
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Quick Bioregional Quiz!

1.Where is the place that urbanites, suburbanites, and rural residents inhabit together?
2.Where is the place to learn and practice sustainable ways that satisfy basic human needs?
3.Where is the place nearest at hand to restore & maintain ecosystems & wildlife?
4.Where is the place to re-localize & decentralize political, social and economic features?
5.Where is the place to remanufacture products from recycled material?
6.Where is the place for students to learn about ecology?
7.Where is the place to begin both reducing climate change & planning suitable adaptations?

Answer: The watershed in the bioregion* where you live.

Planet Drum's Vision:

What approach can we take to begin living sustainably wherever we are located?

Planet Drum was founded in 1973 to provide an effective grassroots approach to ecology that emphasizes sustainability, community self-determination and regional self-reliance. In association with community activists and ecologists, Planet Drum developed the concept of a *bioregion: a distinct area with coherent and interconnected plant and animal communities, and natural systems, often defined by a watershed. A bioregion is a whole "life-place" with unique requirements for human inhabitation so that it will not be disrupted and injured. Through its projects, publications, speakers, and workshops, Planet Drum helps start new bioregional groups and encourages local organizations and individuals to find ways to live within the natural confines of bioregions.     [more]

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