The Future of Cascadia - Building Regional Competitiveness Cross Border Workshop Report and PDF of event hosted at Simon Fraser University in August 2018.
Standing Rock Solidarity Network Resource Packet
While compiling notes for the creation of a Department of Bioregion Indigenous Solidarity Guide - we noticed that one of the primary tools - the Standing Rock Solidarity Resource Packet - is now offline, and that the mirror sites for most of it is now also offline. In an effort to preserve the lessons and wisdom learned from the Standing Rock Protests, we wanted to share our PDF’s for historical sake, but also in case they might be useful for future historians, students, activists and organizers.
Learning Coast Salish protocols, making acknowledgements meaningful, as defined by them:
Canadian Forces Illegally Enter Wet'suwet'en Country in Northern Cascadia
On January 7, 2019, at approximately 2:51pm, RCMP and military forcefully breached a peaceful checkpoint on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory. Indigenous people were ripped from their homes by militarized police. There were at least 12 confirmed arrests, including an elder, and Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs were blocked from their own territories.
The Cascading Cascades of Cascadia - where does the name Cascadia come from?
Cascadia — the evocative name of a region, an idea, a movement — wild and free, defined by the waters flowing from the continental crest through the headwaters of the Pacific. Cascadia is a bioregion, the place we call home, an identity, movement and positive vision for the future. But where did this name actually come from?
For this New Years 'Resolution Say "Cascadia"
Your Cascadia launches Weekly Meetups!
Oceans of Cascadia by Treeoathe - Fresh Ancients of Cascadia & Beyond
As part of our archive of writings on Cascadia and eco-poetics, the Department of Bioregion is excited to share the following writing on bioregional mapping, salmon, and perceptions of place.
Cascadia Subduction Zone Tremors: 36,377 in 2018
In 2018, the Cascadia Subduction Zone saw 36,377 Episodic Thrusts & Slips (ETS). These tremors are different from earthquakes, which are generally more sudden, and that of other, shallower faults, which can be generated from the pressure buildup of magma sitting under Cascadia’s many volcanoes along the Pacific Ring of Fire.
A Cascadia Field Guide to Wheatpasting
The Practice of Bioregionalism: An Interview with Richard Evenoff
The Department of Bioregion is proud to share an interview between Evan O’Neil and Richard Evanoff, a professor of envrionmental ethics at Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan, who recently wrote the book Bioregionalism and Global Ethics as part of our archive of bioregionalism articles and resources. The interview originally appeared on Carnegie Council on August 3rd 2012.
Cascadia's Human Terrain: Shifting our perspective through Bioregional Mapping
Case Study: British Deportation Activists Hack Bus Advertisements
Department of Bioregion responds to United States Federal Government Shutdown
Why the Cascadia Movement Matters Now More Than Ever
Cascadia Explained: What if Cascadia Was a Country?
Said the Whale feature New Album 'Cascadia'
The Department of Bioregion is excited to share that the award winning Cascadian ambassadors Tyler Bancroft, Ben Worcester, and Jaycelyn Brownmusic, the trio band Said the Whale released a first glimpse of their new feature length album ‘Cascadia’.
Case Study: Independent Diplomat
How to create a leaderless revolution and win lasting political change | Carne Ross
New 'Cascadia Playbook' Documents Oregon Response to Megaquake
The State of Oregon Office of Emergency Management has released a new ‘Cascadia Playbook’ helping outline the first two weeks of government response in the face of a 9.0 Cascadia Megaquake. The playbook provides a two-week blueprint for the state’s response and expectations for prioritizing Oregon's recovery from what would be the deadliest natural disaster in the U.S.
