From the Mississippi Delta to Brand Earth: Bioregions, Belonging, and a New Way to Restore Mother Earth

This World UNITY Week gathering brings together two powerful streams of work: Joe Brewer and Penny Heiple’s live pilgrimage at the Mississippi Delta, and the emerging vision of Global Citizenship: Teeming with Earth.

Joining us live from the Mississippi’s vast Delta, Joe and Penny will share from an apex moment in their month-long journey through the watershed — a pilgrimage dedicated to seeding bioregional learning centers and extending the healing work begun during last summer’s Fields of Healing journey. Standing where the heartland releases into the Gulf of Mexico, they invite us to feel the living reality of a bioregion: its waters, wounds, wisdom, and regenerative possibility.

In conversation with Jon Ramer, Harry Uvegi, and Dr. Tamsin Woolley-Barker, we will then explore how this bioregional vision connects to a new form of global citizenship rooted in place, belonging, and service to Mother Earth. Together, we will look at the emergence of Brand Earth, the Earth Pass, the Earth Bank, the Earth Bank Fund, and the Earth Bank Ledger as living designs for recognizing bioregions as banks of value, resilience, wisdom, and restoration.

Tamsin will bring insights from nature’s intelligence — how life “teams” and “teems” through cooperation, adaptation, networks, and mutual benefit. Harry will share how the Earth Bank can help align human systems with Earth’s living systems, creating pathways for the Earth Pass to support the people, projects, and learning centers working to restore bioregions around the world.

Together, these two sessions ask one essential question:

What if global citizenship begins by belonging deeply to place — and becomes a way for all of us to help fund, serve, and restore Mother Earth?

This is a conversation for organizers, communities, bioregions, partners, and all who feel called to participate in a new beginning for humanity: one rooted in watershed wisdom, collective action, and a living relationship with Earth.