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Latest news and events from regenerative culture communities around the world
What Bloom Network Means for Me and the Future
by Meg Rivers, Bloom Columbia, Missouri I find it difficult to put into words what Bloom Network means to me, and why I continue to donate my time, money and effort to this organization. It has meant so many things. I believe in evolution, in the sense that I...
Bloom Network Seeking Board Members
Exciting news! Bloom Network is looking for new board members as we emerge from design phase to implementation. Is this you? Let us know! Joining the Bloom Network nonprofit board is an exciting opportunity to: Influence the direction of the emerging regenerative...
Bloom Network Afterparty + Planet Home
This September, with the buzz of Pollination still pulsating in our hearts, the Bloom Network team set out to Planet Home - a weekend long edutainment experience in San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts. Planet Home brought together thousands of individuals and...
Interview with Clare Politano – Building Collective Resonance in a Small Working Group
by Hannah Mitchell - Bloom Network Community Lead, (Miss Hannigan) Following Bloom Network’s Pollination event, I headed to Burning Man and made sure I saw the Terran Collective* (hosts of one of the Pollination Labs) speaking as a panel at the camp of Burners Without...
Bloom Podcast Ep. 6: Betti Ono Gallery, with Anyka Barber
Anyka Barber is founder, director and curator of Betti Ono gallery in Oakland, California. We reached out to Anyka in response to Betti Ono's fundraiser to power arts, culture, and community resilience. Contribute at https://bettiono.com/donate/. Betti Ono is an...
What is a DAO?
cover image by flyerdiaries.com DAO stands for decentralized autonomous organization. It's a new kind of organization that is native to the internet. DAO's make it easier to run companies that don't necessarily have hierarchies of power, or they can have more diverse...
Bloom Podcast, William Padilla-Brown, Ep. 5
Bio: William Padilla-Brown is a certified permaculture designer taking a multidisciplinary approach to designing models of living systems that can be utilized to replace the anti-biotic (against-life) systems that our societies have provided us. He educates locals,...
What’s Happening at Pollination?
The purpose of this post is to introduce the two main types of activity happening at Pollination 2019. Pollination is best thought of as the start to a longer-term process of forming mutually nourishing relationships among types of organizations and social movements...
Bloom Network presents Pollination: An interview with Bloom’s Executive Creative Officer Magenta Ceiba
By Kristin Johansen Maher Greetings! I am talking with Magenta Ceiba, the Executive Creative Officer of Bloom Network and producer of the network’s first conference event - Pollination 2019: San Francisco - happening at Impact Hub SF this August 17 & 18...
Five Qualities for Building Regenerative Relationships
Playfulness: Connecting through play in embodied ways, to nourish ourselves and each other and express new possibilities.Nestedness: We live and work within complex, interrelated systems. Any regenerative relationship needs to acknowledge that, and be accountable to...
June Newsletter 2019
Our most recent newsletter has many exciting updates, including the deadline to purchase Tier I tickets for Pollination, our first conference/hackathon in San Francisco.Check it out here! Featuring our most recent podcast episode, upcoming training on cryptocurrency,...
Bloom Yuba Watershed – Community Hike and July Meetup
Greetings Bloom Yuba Watershed Community, This Sunday, June 16 at 6:30pm we will meet at Elixart to carpool to Coyote Lookout together for a hike! Please bring snacks or dinner if you'd like to picnic at the lookout. Since it's Father's Day, we'll have a loose...
Bloom Yuba Watershed June Meetup
Wednesday, June 5 2019, 7-9:30pmElixart, Nevada City, California(Meetup is every first Wednesday) Greetings dear Yuba Watershed Community, On June 5 we gather at Elixart to learn and support each other in regenerative culture practices, to build healthy communty. We...
Pollination is a Fully Participatory Event
Hello there! People have been asking us lots of questions about the details of facilitation during Pollination, including what is happening during the Action Incubator and Governance Hackathon sessions. I'm going to break this down as much as I can at this point in...
Bloom Podcast: Consciousness Hacking with Joshua Fields
In this episode we interview Joshua Fields about Consciousness Hacking's upcoming conference: Awakened Futures Summit, May 18-19 2019 in San Francisco. It addresses the intersection of psychedelics, technology and meditation. Bloom Network is a community partner for...
Bloom Yuba Watershed Meetup #2, May 1 2019
You're invited to the second ever Bloom Yuba Watershed meetup, Wednesday May 1 at Elixart, 408 Broad Street, Nevada City. 7-9:30pm Voluntary contributions accepted: About Bloom: Formerly Evolver Network, Bloom Network is a global in-person social network that utilizes...
Local Chapter Report: Bloom Yuba Watershed, California
The first Bloom Yuba Watershed meetup was beyond my wildest dreams. Since I became the executive director of Bloom Network in 2013, I've had to focus most of my energy on setting up the international community layer of the network - our online systems, our business...
Baltimore – Mushroom City presents: A Mother’s Day Foray/Soirée
Mushroom City Art Festival, the main project affiliated with Bloom Baltimore, presents a Mother's Day Foray/Soirée! We will be hosting a foray followed by music & crankies in the chapel. This event is an all ages benefit to help us raise money for this year's...
Creating Decentralised Water Retention Landscapes
Part of the Researching Regenerative Practises Blog Series Restoring natural water retention back into landscapes is an essential task to be undertaken. A scary 1/3 of Earth’s land has been desertified at the hands of humans, causing widespread hunger and thirst. This...
Bloom Yuba Watershed – First Monthly Meetup!
Wednesday, April 3 2019, 7-9:30pm After years of requests, we're finally hosting the first local Bloom chapter event in Nevada City, California, at Elixart on Broad Street. We acknowledge that these are the ancestral homelands of the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan...
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