James Piers Taylor

James Piers Taylor is a bioregional activist based on the Dengie peninsula of Essex. The Green Party candidate for the Southminster Division and a former Chair of the UK Permaculture Association. He is a graduate of the Centre for Human Ecology, co-author of the book Shadows of Progress, publisher of the journal Managed Retreat, and a documentation editor at the British Film Institute.

Think Global, Act Local! has been a rallying cry of environmentalism for decades - but what does living and acting locally mean? Bioregionalism is an approach to living sustainably in place that critically questions our current mapping and governance of physical territory. The Managed Retreat project explores this concept and how it might look here in the English orient, from the River Blackwater to the Thames, the Dengie Peninsula to the Essex Archipelago. Working with Nature to ReInhabit; ReGenerate; ReWild; and ReEnchant.