Lakes – Supporting The Genesee Finger Lakes Bioregion

What do we Aready Know about Our Bioregion?

| AI, Bioregional Intelligence, Communities, Cultural Ecology, Ecosystems, Finger Lakes, Food, Forest, Genesee Valley, Geology, Health, Hydrology, Indigenous, Lakes, Land, Local, Resilience, Rivers, Water, Watershed

It’s important to ask, what do we already know about our bioregion, and how to steward it? To begin with, how do we celebrate what we already have? I think immediately of farmers’ markets, orchards and u-pick farms, any regenerative agriculture and indigenous cultivation, all the nonprofit initiatives we have (including Rochester Ecology Partners, the […]

Making the Genesee Finger Lakes Bioregion Visible to Itself

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| AI, Bioregional Intelligence, Climate, Communities, Ecosystems, Energy, Food, Forest, Health, Indigenous, Lakes, Land, Rivers, Water

(Click to enlarge) Seeing the Genesee–Finger Lakes as a Living Bioregion To look at the Genesee Finger Lakes Bioregion through a bioregional lens is to stop seeing it as a set of counties, cities, or tourist destinations and begin seeing it as a living system—shaped by ice and water, animated by human cultures, altered by […]

Can We Use AI to Help Regenerate Our Bioregion?

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| AI, Ecosystems, Energy, Health, Indigenous, Lakes, Land

The framework we have described for assessing the health of the Genesee Finger Lakes Bioregion was developed and enhanced using AI — ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grammarly, to mention a few. Is this legitimate? Is it useful? This article uses AI to address these questions. To begin with, ChatGPT alerts us to something that a wise […]