ABSTRACT
A bioregional education would include the ecology of a place and its literature. It could include the history of botanical drawing in that place, the history of mapping in that place; it would be interested in understanding the relation between cultures and economies. Planet Drum had been doing that kind of work for years, but it had not gotten into the schools of education. So Pam and Owen Lammers, the director of International Rivers, said lets put together some money and start a program, a contest, to get kids to make art and poetry about their watershed, and well put together booklets of how to teach natural history, how to do art education, how to teach kids to write poems about the world around them. This was 1996, and not much was going on in the schools except corporate green-washing. The Anacostia is the other river, besides the Potomac, that creates DC.
