Join us to explore how we activate our communities across the Bay Delta bioregion to co-create a thriving future for all life!

An Unconference in a unique format where the agenda is co-created by all attendees and led by our experienced production team, using Open Space Technology. Sessions span topics like bioregionalism, local food systems, governance, land stewardship, Indigenous leadership, mutual aid, solidarity economy and regenerative practices.

Join doers and dreamers from across the Bay Delta Region to re-imagine a world that works for all life. Whether you're a gardener, organizer, artist, land steward, technologist, or simply curious about building a thriving regenerative future, this is your invitation to join a growing network in the Bay Delta Bioregion, committed to enabling a future that is planet positive and life affirming for all life, human and non-human.

Our goal is to create a container where everyone feels welcome and empowered to contribute.

Our calling question is: How do we activate our communities across the Bay Delta bioregion and watersheds to co-create a thriving future for all life? 

Opening Speaker (before Agenda Creation)

Colin Cook-Miller from Reclaim Our Power will be speaking on environmental justice intersections with bioregionalism.

What to Expect

• Collaborative Sessions: Propose and lead discussions on the topics you’re passionate about.

• Community Connections: Meet like-minded people, share resources, and discover new allies.

• Action Planning: Move from ideas to action with support from the wider network.

• Yummy Lunch is included!

About the Venue Laney College

It is next to the Lake Merritt BART station and has abundant free parking.

Conference Producers

• Kaliya Young, Unconference.net

• ajay tallam, East Bay Permaculture Guild

• Dave Witzel, Global Regeneration Co-Lab

• Lawrence Grodeska, Bay Delta Trust

We are a NOTAFLOF event -- scholarships and work-trades available, please reach out!

Sponsor the Event!

If you are interested in learning about sponsorship opportunities we want to hear from you. Please reach out at baydeltabioregion@gmail.com

• Inquiring Systems Inc (GRC's fiscal sponsor!)

• FORESTR is an InKind Sponsor bringing us Fruit

• unconference.net

Collaborating Organizations...

• east bay permaculture guild

• Global Regeneration CoLab

• The Bay Delta Trust

• Hylo

• Terran Collective

• East Bay Cohousing

• Slow Money Northern California

• a PLACE for sustainable living

• Bay Area Green Tours 

• Collective Resilience 

• Inquiring Systems Inc

• Flourishing Systems Foundation

• Tessa Vita Levine Marriage and Family Inc.

• SF Permaculture Guild

• LIFT Economy

• Bioregional Explorers Club 

• Bloom.pm: Impact Accelerator Platform & Programs

• Reclaim Our Power

• Forestr

• Alameda Maker Farm

• Spherical

• Transition Berkeley

• Green Party Alameda County

• Mind Lumen

• Marin Green Home Tour

• East Bay Green Home Tour

• Blue Heart

• The Co-Caring Initiative

• Real Democracy

• Better Together America

• The Omni-Win Project

• Turtle Island Bioregional Congress 2026

f you want to be a collaborating organization or sponsor reach out to us baydeltabioregion@gmail.com.

List of Potential Topics

• Climate Science

• Role of tech; regenerative AI;

• degrowth/post-growth economics

• Nature journaling for climate!

• Bioregional mapping + storying place

• Games to teach next economy principles

• Creating the regenerative life now

• Degrowth / solidarity economy / wellbeing economy / alternative economies

• Movement Building

• Bioregional coordination technology. Governance

• Inner city medicinal herb gardens and urban granges

• Democracy and political activism

• Resilience hubs

• Rights of nature for the bay/delta

• Tech for bioregional organizing

• Solar punk/Mabuay Gardens

• Grassroots Monitoring and Evaluation

• urban farming

• herbalism

• sustainability in art and education

• The relationship between theory and practice for these strategies.

• How to Speak Across Divides with Clarity, Keeping large-scale environmental issues in mind when drifting towards survival mode (making hard decisions), Kindness, how can it be effective.

• Interested in Warm Data Labs in community centers as a vehicle for re-tissuing social fabric

• Direct action training

• Biobased materials/ Natural Building

• food and ag

• Engineering food to feed the masses and preserve our limited land supply

• how do we make a society where every stream, forest, lake, and ocean has a keeper dedicated to its thriving

• Intergenerational learning and collaboration;

• Regenerative models for local economic opportunity

• Systems thinking for bioregional planning (envisioning future systems); Bioregional based community resources: energy, water, food

• Bioregionalism 101

• Deliberative & Participatory Democracy

• shared ownership models and financing (real estate, energy, food, businesses)

• Creating hyper-local regenerative farming systems working with school systems, urban farms, CSA's, local parks, and front line NGO's.

• Creating micro-regional community engagement and democracy hubs that champion stewardship, regeneration, rewilding, and Thriving Together neighborhood networks.

• Collaborating with regional organizations focused on developing a Unified Bay Area Collaborative System to develop a shared 50 year vision for our region, and then work together to achieve our vision

• Incubation, funding, and innovation facilitation for doughnut-compatible startups

• Doughnut Economics

• Indigenous Food Sovereignty; 

• Decolonizing Cartography, 

• Data Sovereignty and Liberating TEK and Culture from Academic Institutions

• Gaming for EJ, 

• building an Oakland Food Forest

• What challenges are people having around finances and their work? And how can I help as a fractional-CFO/finances coach?

• Human connection in the age of AI

• digital marketing for regenerative livelihoods

• Bioregional finance, how to grow and scale the movement, looking at case studies such as common land

• Narrative & supporting storytellers

• Systemic flourishing indicators, how bioregional health relate to human flourishing, 

• Conflict culture; how do we navigate it now as we discuss & collaborate, and what do we sow for future seasons?

• How the tech sector has responsibility to care for local and global bioregion and can utilize the resources and skills that we have to help respect / restore bioregional boundaries, taking into account ancient/ native wisdom

• Indigenous Food Sovereignty and the Obstacles Indigenous People Face in Sustenance Gathering

• Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Cartography, and Liberating Indigenous TEK and Culture from Academic Institutions

• What Native American Tribes Look Like, How to Identify the First People of this Place and some Tips for Approaching and Collaborating with Sovereign Tribes and Organizations

• The doughnut accelerator, and more broadly the idea of helping more projects come alive and get the support they need to grow.

Partial Participant List

• Minda Aguhob

• Harlin/Hayley Steele

• Georgie Pease

• Ken Homer

• Sonomia Byrd

• Lorrie Chang

• John Lydon

• Chase Keller

• Meet Panchal

• Day Waterbury

• Tristan Roberts

• Clara Kuo

• Marissa LaMagna

• Pete Yaroschuk

• Raines Cohen

• Betsy Morris

• Marilyn Paul

• Paula Cristobal

• Maia Welbel

• Daniel Enking

• Sara Allan

• Tessa Levine

• Anthony Zueck

• Peter Waring

• Rebecca Strull

• Barbara Widhalm

• Amy Lightholder

• Jonathan Connors

• Tibet Sprague

• Delia Carroll

• Connie Lin

• Susan Silber

• Clare Brodeur

• Aaron Brodeur

• Heidi Chen

• Bobby Fishkin

• Jamie Boling

• Bonnie Borucki

• Sam Ruben

• Alanya Snyder

• Samantha Sweetwater

• Al Cabal

• Karma Bennett

• Dennis Britton

• Seth Dunn

• Kelly Neuner

• John Kelly

• Gladys Mercier

• Brad DeGraf

• Douglas Gayeton

• Elana Yonah

• Sarah Lamm

• Malcolm Knapp

• Carmen Henrikson

• Susan Clark

• Natasha Janowski

• Kate Linforth

• Natalie Walsh

• Tahera Sakarwala

• Ellinor Arzbaecher

• Duncan Autrey

• John Lund-Delaossa

• Ann Blake

• Scott Newton

• Rebecca Pan

• Weston Mossman

• David Hodgson

• Eva Woo

• Fyodor Ovchinnikov

• Kevin Bayuk

• Con Yeh

• Sara Blenkhorn

• Mingzhu He

• Lauren Van Harm

• Austin Chamberlin

• Stanley Wu

• Daniel Goldberg

• Indy Rishi Singh

• Tracey Rogers Brandt

• Phoenix Armenta

• Jordan Jo

• Eliza McKenna

• Marc O’Brien

• Faith Flanigan

• Charles Upton

• Shu Liu

• Dan Noble

• Dave Miles

• David Abramson

• Gabriel Berman

• David Witzel

• David Munir Nabti

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