todd. joe. thanks for the clear work.i like the proposed terms. Re: bioregion, i think we can get more specific and engaged than saying its bigger than ithaca and smaller than nys. the term bioregion implies some geographic, biological, and cultural coherence, that forms a natural foundation for community and economy not based primarily on beauracratic political boundaries, in our case either the cayuga lake watershed /bioregion or the finger lakes watershed/bioregion. elan