Get outside and celebrate the month of picnicking!
Upcoming Release Parties for the Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry
The Department of Bioregion is super excited for the release of the Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, being released by Mountaineers Books March, 1st. For those not familiar, in the first ever ‘Cascadia’ field guide, local experts, poets and artists are working to create a literary field guide for the Cascadia bioregion.
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.
Agenda
The main agenda is a base to hold multiple conversations and connections. It can change during the event, go here often.
Donations
They are seeking an additional $15,000 to fully cover our time and expenses. Consider a donation of $25, $50, and $125.
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.”
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).
We are excited to host Bread and Puppet: Apocalypse Defiance Circus for their Seattle Performance, Friday October 21st 2022.
2022 Cascadia NW: Equinox in Pictures
With COVID, this was our first festival since 2019, and brought hundreds of folks out to Sedro-Woolley for a weekend of arts, music and fun. The entire purpose was to reconnect, gather and rekindle energy for hosting a full scale 2023 CascadiaNW festival. This year was also made possible with generous support of Arts WA, the Washington Chamber of Commerce and WA Festival Association.
CascadiaNW Music and Arts Festival Grant!
After a two year hiatus due to COVID, Cascadia Northwest Arts and Music Festival is excited to return this year with an equinox gathering to reignite the magic and reconnection of the Cascadia community. While it will be much smaller than usual, the goal will be together in person, fundraise and build energy for a full return of the CascadiaNW festival in 2023.
Reporting on Ecotopia: Cross-border environmental media in the Salish Sea & Cascadia
This panel forum opens questions about the evolution of media and news venues in our cross-border region. Featuring a slate of outstanding journalists covering environmental issues in our region, we will explore questions like:
How do regional media address transboundary issues, such as the energy economy, political regulation, and climate change policy?
What is the role of media producers and consumers in fostering cross-border conversations around the Salish Sea and more broadly throughout Cascadia?
What is the future of place-based news to address shared crises and solutions in our shared bioregion?
Happy May 18th, Cascadia Day!
From the mountains to the sea, our home features some of the most diverse, beautiful and dynamic landscapes in the entire world. Our people are as diverse as the beauty that surrounds us. We are abundantly blessed and therefore celebrate a holiday to highlight our uniqueness and diversity and as a reminder of our responsibility to act as faithful stewards of the wondrous bounty with which we are endowed. Happy Cascadia Day!
Cascadia Day is Tuesday May 18th! Come Celebrate
Cascadia Open Education Summit coming up in British Columbia and online, April 27-29
Regional Influence. Global Impact.
The Cascadia Open Education Summit is a unique three-day, internationally attended event where thought leaders come together to share groundbreaking ideas, research, and best practices for using open educational resources (OER). Their delegates include government officials, faculty, academic administrators and leaders, educational developers and technologists, librarians, instructional designers, student support staff, and students.
The 8th annual Summit will be digital and will be a mix of live and pre-recorded sessions delivered through the virtual platform provider, EventMobi. The event follows on the 2019 Cascadia Open Education Summit which took place in Vancouver, B.C. on April 17 & 18, 2019, co-hosted by Lumen Learning, Open Oregon Educational Resources, and the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC).
Cascadia Open Education Summit welcomed people engaged in higher ed-focused open education initiatives, including students, faculty, librarians, instructional technologists, administrators, and other campus leaders.
For More Information, Check Out:
Https://Cascadia.Bccampus.Ca/
First Climate Assembly in the United States starts today!
Join the Cascadia Election Response Network
When we organize, we win.
Since November 3rd, we have had more than 1200 people sign up to join our Cascadia Election Response Network. More than just about any one candidate or election, we see this as a pivotal moment in history when we must start preparing networks of mutual aid, local resilience, training and preparation for times of emergency, and if ever needed, civil disobedience. Be it an emergency, man made or natural, or fighting against the rising tide of fascism, climate change, economic inequity, systemic oppression or misinformation, we will be ready.
These types of networks don’t just happen. Historically, it is often the result of serious training. Time and again, we have demonstrated the power that unified, nonviolent, mass-action can have in the face of illegitimate regimes seeking to subvert the will of the people.
Join our Slack Channel
https://join.slack.com/t/deptofbioregion/shared_invite/zt-e3076d36-0fT9xS0pkBtuU7r82XGPIw
When you join, use the channel browser on the left hand hand side to find your local neighborhood group, or to request one if it already hasn’t been found. Join our resiliency network, and use this as a space to plug your own groups and resources you find important that you feel are bioregional, local and ethical.
Cascadia Day is Tomorrow, Monday May 18th! Come Celebrate
Join a Cascadia Work Group
We are excited to announce that we are creating several work groups from our Envision Cascadia Conference, and would love to invite you to join us. We had more than 150 people register for 8 different sessions that took place over 2 weeks in which people gathered to explore how we can best build the Cascadia movement, and we are very excited to keep this momentum going.
7th Cascadia Poetry Festival will be May 1-3 2020 on San Juan Island
For the 7th iteration of the Cascadia Poetry Festival, SPLAB moves its bioregional cultural investigation to The Multiverse on San Juan Island. A gallery and island cultural center run by Jennifer, Ian and Gavia Boyden will provide a more intimate setting for festival attendees to go deeper into the intersection of poetics and bioregionalism.
New fundraiser for Forests for Climate Resilience this Saturday in Portland, Oregon.
Join Forests for Climate Resilience and Forest Defenders for a gathering of #Forest Folk, Saturday in Portland, Oregon. The night will feature music, forest updates and movement news!
2020 Cascadia Grains Conference scheduled for January 18 & 19 in Olympia, Washington
First Annual Cascadia Food Festival - Saturday October 5th in Vancouver, Washington
Taste the Region and Explore Food Connections at the Food and Cider Festival, Slow Food Summit, and Cascadian Luau during this all day event brought to you by Slow Food Cascadia. Join us as we build a just, craft, regenerative food movement in the Cascadia region, and raise funds to support farm-to-food bank program.
