Biophilia

My overall reaction to "Bioregional Thinking" is that I agree with mostly everything in the exerpt/article. The idea of a bioregional approach to rebuild communities and help our understanding of "place" is something I've definately never thought about before.

The first section, or couple of pages, is where I had the most thought or reaction. When talking about location and the question "Where are we?" and all the intricacies of the answer to the question, I thought about how every individual is obviously in a different specific place at every moment and no one person is in the exact location as another and can not therefore be answered generally as "we". "Yet how deeply do any of us really know where we are?" As far as geography, we have an accurate analysis of where we are, but as far as emotionally or the "Where am I in this stage of my life?" can never truely be answered because even all of that is changing. Every day is a new day and we don't stay in one place for a long period of time. The questions in the following paragraph as sub-sections of the question "What am I supposed to do?" was good food for thought on the topic of what a certain city, country, etc. means to a person and what we can do to make it better.

Technology is always advancing and "making life easier" with easy access to information and making places and shopping among other things more accessible. The nature of technology is just that: to make life easier. But I agree that it has helped to isolate humans from each other as well as help communication between us faster. So I think I'm torn on the issue of technology because of what it helps and how it works in a community.

I like the idea, though, of biophilia, or at least what I think it is. I may not be so clear on the concept...