BioRegional Development Group
is an entrepreneurial, independent environmental organisation. We
develop award winning, commercially viable products and services
which meet more of our everyday needs from local renewable and waste
resources, to help enable
One Planet living – living within our fair share of
the Earth’s resources.
Eco footprinting shows that if
everyone in the world consumed as much as the average UK resident
we would need 3 planets to support us.
BioRegional is demonstrating that it is possible to significantly
reduce our ecological footprint in areas such as wood products,
paper, textiles, food, transport and housing to a sustainable level
and maintain a high quality of life.
The BioRegional approach is based
on:
•
local resource availability:
using local farmland, woodlands, renewable energy and
waste efficiently to meet more of our needs.
• closing the loop: recycling and reclaiming materials
or using waste heat from industry.
•
appropriate scale technology:
allowing us to use regional resources which reduces transport
and boosts the local economy.
•network
production: producing
locally with centralised co-ordination and marketing.
•fair
trade: moving away
from damaging low-value commodities to higher value, environmentally
sound products.
• One Planet Living: reducing
our ecological footprint to live within a fair share of the Earth's
resources.
In all of these ways we can
reduce wasteful consumption. Local production and recycling reduces
transport, fossil fuel use and CO2 emissions, and naturally encourages
resource efficiency.
