A BioHub is a coordination body anchored in a specific BioRegion. It convenes the people, institutions, and economic actors whose activity shapes a living landscape. The BioHub makes visible a form of Human Coordination that has always existed in Nature but has only recently started being practiced by (Westernized) humans. While it has always been practiced as part of Indigenous Knowledge (see T form (Tribal)), there is a new form emerging: it organizes through pooled commitments toward outcomes no single actor can produce alone. A BioHub is where this form of coordination is practiced and made visible to a wide audience.
Most bioregions already include groups of people doing Retention Economics work, as distinctly different from Throughput Economics. What is usually missing is the coordination layer that connects these activities into a single, fundable offer. A BioHub provides that layer. It redefines the work already being done in a bioregion, by organizing distributed contributions into verifiable commitments to the cities, corporations, and investors that need what the bioregion produces: functioning watersheds, biological complexity, carbon sequestration, and the data to prove it. The shift is structural. A bioregion that asks for funding is needy. A bioregion that makes commitments to those who need its services is needed by society. That is the distinction between a BioHub, the BioRegion itself, and a Bioregional Learning Centre.
The concept has been slowly emerging independently across multiple geographies and intellectual traditions. In mid-2026, Metabolic Institute published their 2026 BioHub Assessment, which documented 152 initiatives worldwide operating under this emergent coordination logic. What they share is a recognition that landscape-scale ecological and economic challenges require a coordination form that municipalities, conservation agencies, water authorities, and market actors cannot sustain individually.
The BioHub is that form and this site is a guide for establishing your own BioHub.