Based in the Ozark Mountains in Missouri, the Bioregional Project (BP) was founded in 1982 to promote the aims and interests of the bioregional movement in North America. Consisting primarily of a resource center designed to show people how to "come back home to Earth," the Bioregional Project is part of the international campaign to reshape culture and society according to ecological principles: "We work for the honor, protection and healing of the Earth, the Earth's people, and all the Earth's life."

A bioregion is what the group calls a "life region," an area determined by natural rather than historical or political boundaries. It is distinguished by the character of the flora and fauna, by the landforms, the types of rocks and soils, the climate in general, and by human habitation as it relates to this environment. The Bioregional Project emphasizes the natural logic of these boundaries...