Directory of Cascadia Organizations
Being Cascadian is more than using the name or happening to fall within the borders of the Cascadia bioregion. Instead, one becomes Cascadian by choosing to do so; promoting and practicing bioregional principles; and growing an identity rooted in a love of place, because we find this place, the people and movement so special. When we do, we cease to be American or Canadian - identities defined by abstract national constructs - and become Cascadian.
Below is a list created by the Department of Bioregion of organizations, groups, programs, competitions and events important elements within the Cascadia movement and how bioregionalism has evolved in the Pacific West region of North America. For profit businesses will be a separate directly coming soon. Are we missing something? Then make sure to:
Cascadia Association Football Federation (CAFF)
As the largest soccer (football) organization in the bioregion, CAFF founded Team Cascadia and orgnizes their competition on an international stage.
Cascadia Climate Action
The Cascadia Climate Community Calendar is intended for climate-related events within the broader Cascadia region of the Pacific Northwest.
Cascadia Food
Salal Cascadia Food are committed to sustainably integrating human communities and native ecosystems.
http://www.cascadianfood.net/
Cascadia Rail
Cascadia Rail is a new organization of advocates spanning from Vancouver, Bellingham, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, and Portland who support multi-state efforts to connect the Cascadia region through high-speed intercity transport.
Cascadia Institute
Cascadia Institute is the home of bioregional founder, former Seattle University geography professor and map designer David McCloskey, who coined the term ‘Cascadia’ in the 1980’s.
Cascadia Magazine
Cascadia Magazine is dedicated to telling those diverse stories. They’re passionate about crossing borders between nations, cultures, ethnicities, and gender — and bridging the rural/urban divide.
Cascadia Underground
Cascadia Underground is a Seattle-based media center and Cascadia wide collective that provides action-focused education, resources and community space for the Cascadia movement and bioregional issues. By magnifying diverse voices, stories and perspectives, we empower Cascadians to actively resist oppression, exploitation, discrimination or marginalization.
Cascadia Wild
Cascadia Wild is a Portland-based non-profit dedicated to connecting people with the natural world. We combine modern ecological methods with the ancient practices of living with nature. Fostering a community based on science, intuition, professionalism and lots of fun, we hope to instill a deep sense of connection with the natural world.
Cascadian Wikimedians
Cascadia Wikimedians User Group, an independent group of Wikimedians, is the user group which serves as the regional affiliate for the Cascadia region of North America. Its mission is to support Cascadian Wikimedians in their Wikimedia-related endeavors and to partner with local organizations in their use of Wikimedia projects.
Cascadia Dance and Cinema Festival
Cascadia is a convergence of Dance & Cinema on many levels. We offer screenings, workshops, forums, and opportunities to connect with other creators, curators, curious minds and Dancinephiles.
Cascadia Wildlands
Cascadia Wildlands defends and restores Cascadia’s wild ecosystems in the forests, in the courts, and in the streets. Cascadia Wildlands began in 1998 when a group of passionate students and community members decided to take action against rampant clearcutting in Oregon’s Cascades and Coast Range. Since then Cascadia Wildlands has grown into a regional conservation leader.
Race Cascadia
Race Cascadia has been producing, managing and supporting race events in the Pacific Northwest since 2013.
Cascadia Dirt Cup
The Cascadia Dirt Cup is the northwest's premiere enduro mountain bike race series showcasing and supporting Cascadia's world-class mountain bike trails.
Cascadia Day
Cascadia Day is a day chosen to join together to help celebrate and raise awareness of Cascadia, meet our neighbors, and discuss and plan how we are going to positively create change here in the Pacific Northwest. Raise your flag, wear your patch, and join fellow Cascadians, building Cascadia as a positive force for change.
Cascadia Cup
The Cascadia Cup formally started in 2004 as a supporters cup. The biggest supporters groups for the three clubs are the Emerald City Supporters, the Timbers Army, and the Vancouver Southsiders.
Cascadia NW Festival
Cascadia NW celebrates our beautiful Northwest culture, with three days of music, art, and camping on nearly 300 acres of North Cascade scenery at the Masonic Family Park, near Granite Falls, Washington.
Cascadia International Film Festival
The Cascadia International Women’s Film Festival celebrates and showcases exceptional films by Women Directors.
Cascadia Grains Conference
The Cascadia Grains Conference brings together farmers, bakers, brewers, distillers, brokers, investors, policy-makers and others to strengthen the role of grains in our local food economy by sharing the latest science, techniques, and developments, as well as creating a space in which new business, policy and research relationships can form and existing ones can be strengthened.
Cascadia Poetry Festival
The Cascadia Poetry Festival is an international event which gathers writers, artists, scientists and activists to collaborate, discover and foster deeper connection between all inhabitants and the place itself.
Pacific Scooter Racing Cascadia Cup
We host supermoto and mini racing in Washington and Northern Oregon. Our goal is to grow a club of racers in the Pacific Northwest.
Cascadian Midsummer
Welcome to Cascadian Midsummer, an annual summer solstice festival held in rural Washington. Like the gatherings that came before it, Litha Cascadia and Thirst for Light, Cascadian Midsummer takes place at Red Hawk Avalon. This private woodland haven in Pe Ell offers a majestic backdrop for three magical days of music and community.
Cascadia Prairie Oak Partnership
The Cascadia Prairie-Oak Partnership (CPOP) is a community of people and organizations that are involved in prairie-oak conservation and species recovery efforts in western Cascadia.
Cascadia Research Collective
Cascadia Research, a non-profit Washington State corporation recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, has conducted scientific research and education for the past 39 years.
Cascadia Partner Forum
Formed by practitioners in Washington and British Columbia’s Cascade mountains in the summer of 2012, the Cascadia Partner Forum fosters a network of natural resource practitioners working with the Great Northern and North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperatives to build the adaptive capacity of the landscape and species living within it.
Cascadia innovation Corridor
A collection of government and private businesses and individuals working to make the Cascadia Megaregion the worlds first sustainable megaregion.
Sightline Institute
Founded in 1993, Sightline Institute is committed to making the Northwest a global model of sustainability, with strong communities, a green economy, and a healthy environment. We work to promote smart policy ideas and monitor the region's progress towards sustainability.
