Bioregionalism

Bioregional Confluencing 2025: Ambling Toward Planetary Bioregional Congressing

Bioregional Confluencing 2025: Ambling Toward Planetary Bioregional Congressing

As we face mounting ecological, social, and political challenges, one thing has become increasingly clear: top-down systems alone won’t save us. Regeneration begins from the ground up—through people organizing in place, building trust, and cultivating the relationships that make life flourish. That’s the spirit behind Bioregional Confluencing 2025, an ambitious global initiative to revitalize bioregional gatherings and reclaim the practice of congressing—an ancient and future-facing model of participatory governance.

Cascadia Cooperative Conference 2025

Cascadia Cooperative Conference 2025

This summer, cooperative leaders, organizers, visionaries, and values-aligned businesses from across the Cascadia bioregion will gather in Seattle for the first-ever Cascadia Cooperative Conference (CCC)—a landmark event dedicated to deepening the roots and expanding the reach of the cooperative economy in the Pacific Northwest.

No Kings Day 2025: Cascadia Rises in Defense of People and Place

No Kings Day 2025: Cascadia Rises in Defense of People and Place

On June 14, 2025, more than 70,000 people flooded the streets of Seattle to join one of the largest demonstrations in the city’s history. The No Kings Day protest, part of a national day of action in over 80 cities, brought people together in response to the Trump administration’s militarization, ICE raids, attacks on public programs, and deepening disregard for human rights and constitutional limits.

Cascadia Bioregion Atlas: A Collaborative Student Atlas from Western Washington University

The Cascadia Bioregion Atlas is a collaboratively written living atlas of the Cascadia Bioregion created by GIS Certificate candidates at Western Washington University with guidance by Dr. Aquila Flower. New maps and datasets will be added in future academic years.

What is Bioregionalism? Great webcards using the DOB by the Alliance for a Viable Future

The Department of Bioregion is proud to be included in this post by Alliance for a Viable Future which also cites our executive director Brandon Letsinger. Check out more about their organization and learn more at: https://www.allianceforaviablefuture.org/

and give them a follow @allianceforaviablefuture

We were honored to be included in this post by Alliance for a Viable Future. Check out more about their organization and learn more at: https://www.allianceforaviablefuture.org/

and give them a follow @allianceforaviablefuture

Very Happy Dougsgiving! A Guide to Making Every Celebration a Bioregional One

Very Happy Dougsgiving! A Guide to Making Every Celebration a Bioregional One

Very happy holiday season fellow Cascadians!

During this time of year, we want to celebrate what our bioregion gives us, the wonderful people living here in a seasonal and sustainable way. Choosing even one of the following steps can be a great way to have a more bioregionally friendly, inclusive meal. For many this is a time of giving, of thanks, and of being near friends and loved ones. We’d like to take a moment and share some easy steps to make any family gathering or meal a bioregional one.

The Cascadia DOB is excited to present at this years Bioregional Regeneration Summit: Oct 24-Nov 4th 2022

It is the time for Bioregional Regeneration!

BIOREGIONAL REGENERATION SUMMIT
Oct 24- Nov 4, 2022
English & Español

Radical Collaboration between people and places.
Ways to share resources.
Peer to peer exchange of know-how and knowledge.
Regeneration of ourselves through a deep and authentic connection with Mother Earth.

REGISTER


The Cascadia Department of Bioregion will be excited to present “Why Bioregionalism Matters”. The time and day is still being confirmed, but stay tuned.

Why a Summit

In recent years, many networks, organizations, coalitions, and collaborations have emerged to support regeneration at a bioregional and “landscape” scale. We believe we are at a moment when there is a need for and widespread interest in possibilities for “radical collaboration” so that these diverse initiatives can begin to function as a global ecosystem--one that can navigate the complexity of working across scales, across the private, public, and grassroots domains, and across the many interconnected systems where regenerative work is being imagined and enacted. The Summit offers an open and flexible invitation for participants to explore four connected contexts for this radical collaboration: How global networks can support one another How bioregions can support one another How funding innovation can support bioregional scale regeneration How we can support our emotional, physical and spiritual resilience as individuals grappling with the existential threats of the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, economic and social injustice, political fragmentation, and other dimensions of Collapse.

How to join

This scale of working maps itself onto existing places and landscapes in order to provide a meaningful and effective infrastructure for human-scale organising. Bioregions are an age-old organising principle that is being upgraded for the present age by many experiments taking place across the world. Out of that ferment of activity are emerging initiatives for environmental, social and economic regeneration that are place-appropriate.

Registration

The Summit will happen in the Qiqochat platform. After registration you will receive an email with the access.

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Agenda

The main agenda is a base to hold multiple conversations and connections. It can change during the event, go here often.

Agenda

Donations

They are seeking an additional $15,000 to fully cover our time and expenses. Consider a donation of $25, $50, and $125.

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Opportunity explorations

Invite people to engage throughout the Summit on a topic or activity you care about. Frame your exploration with background information, questions and/or activities, and a way to share outcomes. Your invitation will show up on the Summit network map where participants can indicate their interest and self-organize their engagement, with support from the Summit hosts and a team of “weavers.”

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About the conveners

The Regenerative Communities Network is a global practitioner collaborative of bioregional networks along with individuals and organizations who share a commitment to place-based initiatives for environmental, social, and economic regeneration. Originally founded by the Capital Institute in 2018, the Network has been independent and managed by its members since the beginning of 2021. After a period of inwardly focused planning and organizing, this Summit represents the beginning of a new phase of outward-facing work in service to the broader movement of which RCN is a part, along with a plan to grow RCN’s membership and surface new possibilities for it to generate value for its network.

Your RCN hosts for this Summit are Melina Angel (Colombia Regenerativa); Isabel Carlisle (Bioregional Learning Centre UK) and Ben Roberts (Connecticut River Valley Bioregional Collaborative).

David McCloskey releases new Ish River Bioregional Map

David McCloskey releases new Ish River Bioregional Map

David McCloskey, creator of the Cascadia Map, is excited to release his new map of the Ish River country. It is the companion to Cascadia—as a Ecoregion is a room in the house of a larger Bioregion…

Creating an Atlas of the Salish Sea Bioregion

Creating an Atlas of the Salish Sea Bioregion

The Salish Sea Bioregion encompasses an intricate network of inland marine waterways and their upland watersheds in Washington and British Columbia. In this post, Western Washington University geographer Aquila Flowers shares their idea for a Salish Sea Bioregional Atlas.

BIOREGIONAL SPOTLIGHT #1: KWONGAN

BIOREGIONAL SPOTLIGHT #1: KWONGAN

This is the first in a series that seeks to identify and explore bioregions throughout the world. As an introduction, the reader is guided through the process of bioregional mapping as we look at a well studied but unrecognized bioregion: Kwongan

Department of Bioregion to present at the first Washington State Climate Assembly

Department of Bioregion to present at the first Washington State Climate Assembly

We are excited that the Department of Bioregion is presenting “Fighting Climate Change Must Be Bioregional” as part of the 10-1pm learning session, Saturday January 23rd, 2020 as part of the first ever Washington Climate Assembly.

From the Archive: Bioregional Congress of Pacific Cascadia 1988

From the Archive: Bioregional Congress of Pacific Cascadia 1988

Our wonderful underground collaborators from the Cascadia Underground have archived and shared the Bioregional Congress of Pacific Cascadia 1988 for the first time. It’s a rough scan, but can also provides the full text for anyone interested in learning more.