TIBC 11 will take place at Camp Cedar Ridge in Vernonia, Oregon, approximately one hour northwest of Portland, September 15-19, 2026

What does it look like to regenerate a landscape? For the past three months, 40 landscape stewards in 10 landscape groups (Greater Victoria, Fraser Lowlands, Mt. Olympus, Whatcom, Skagit, Whidbey, Vashon, Duwamish River Valley, Gorge and South Willamette Valley) have joined us for weekly sessions, presentations and gatherings as the first part of a year-long Landscape Hub Cultivator pilot. Learn more at https://regeneratecascadia.org

THURSDAY 5 FEB 2026
FRIDAY 6 FEB 2026

10 AM - 12 PM (PST) ONLINE

Attend both days or one, register, and the recordings will be sent to you!

• Day One: Thursday, Feb 5, 12-2pm | Duwamish River Valley, The Gorge, Whidbey Island, Greater Victoria, Fraser Lowland | Register: https://luma.com/3lcakuk4
  

• Day Two: Friday, Feb 6, 12-2pm | Skagit, Whatcom, South Willamette Valley, Vashon, Mt. Olympus | Register: https://luma.com/t93yqfjb

To celebrate the end of this first phase, Regenerate Cascadia is inviting everyone to join for a Landscape Showcase, to come meet, see and learn more about the incredible diversity and wealth of knowledge, wisdom and dedication being held by this growing network.

The Cascadia Poetry Festival is a gathering of poets and bioregionalists, exploring poetry and its connection to environmental, political, historical, and sociological pursuits within Cascadia bioregion. The festival aims to consider how prioritizing natural and cultural boundaries, rather than arbitrary political ones, can address climate change and other issues. Taking place at Rainier Beach Community Club, Seattle, we are looking forward to announcements of poets and registration, TBA.

The Cascadia Poetry Festival returns to Seattle for its ninth year, inviting poets, artists, and culture-makers to explore what it means to create place-based poetry in a time of ecological urgency and cultural transformation. Organized by Cascadia Poetics Lab, this four-day gathering brings together voices from across the bioregion for workshops, readings, panels, and performances rooted in the spirit of Cascadia—where the watersheds speak, the stories run deep, and the arts offer both refuge and revolution.

The Landscape Hub Cultivator is a structured cohort-based community of practice. Each Landscape Group will be represented by 2–3 Landscape Stewards who will participate in bi-weekly online learning sessions, peer exchange, mentorship, and applied activities. Together, participants will explore how to interrupt extractive systems, practice participatory governance, and build the infrastructure needed to attract and steward regenerative funding.

Our executive director, Brandon Letsinger is excited to be one of the panelists for this event: Bioregioning - How to Thrive Where We Live: Tuesday, September 30 at 10am on Zoom along with Lyla June and Samantha Power, and hosted by Rob Dietz, Resilience.org and the post-carbon institute.

This fall, the Cascadia Department of Bioregion will proudly join innovators, artists, youth, engineers, and makers at the second annual Georgetown Steam Plant Science Fair, a celebration of SHTEAM (Science, History, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) and a rallying cry for system-wide transformation.

Since 2017, Rain Shadow Poetics Lab (formerly Cascadia Poetics Lab – Canada) has been bringing world-class poetry and bioregional poetics to the Comox Valley. This summer, in collaboration with Watershed Press, the Lab returns with the Rain Shadow Poetry Festival 2025, a powerful weekend celebration of language, land, and the poetic imagination. From Friday, August 22 through Sunday, August 24, the village of Cumberland, British Columbia will welcome poets, artists, and thinkers from across the Cascadia bioregion for a rich series of readings, workshops, and lectures.

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.

On September 20–21, 2025, join us at the historic Georgetown Steam Plant for a powerful talk with Brandon Letsinger, a longtime champion of Cascadia and founder of Cascadia Now! and the Department of Bioregion. In this live presentation, Brandon will share his two-decade journey in grassroots organizing, the lessons he’s learned from movement-building, and the bold vision behind Regenerate Cascadia—a growing network of networks working to build regenerative systems at a bioregional scale.

We are excited to share that Ashley Bonn has officially joined the team at the Cascadia Department of Bioregion as a Communications & Events Coordinator.

We’re excited to announce that Cascadia Pride merch is officially back in stock—just in time to keep the spirit of pride and place flying strong as we move through summer and beyond. June is nationally recognized as LGBTQ+ Pride Month, commemorating the Stonewall Uprising of 1969—widely considered the spark of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. While Pride is often celebrated in June, queer joy, resistance, and identity are year-round—and so is our commitment to honoring the diversity of our Cascadian community. That’s why we’re thrilled to share a fresh restock of our Cascadia Pride patches, along with several new additions that center identity, inclusion, and bioregional belonging.

A day to celebrate the unique dynamism of our bioregion and movement.

To Celebrate Cascadia Day, we are inviting anyone that feels so moved to share a picture, poem, song, story or short video in this thread that helps to share something of the essence of this amazing place we call home.

We’re hiring! The Department of Bioregion is seeking a Cascadia Organizer to support the growing Cascadia Movement, and a Nonprofit Program Officer to help steward programs, projects, and landscape teams across the bioregion. If you’re passionate about bioregionalism, community resilience, and working across watersheds, we’d love to hear from you.

For the first time in more than 15 years, bioregionalists from across North America are coming together to plan a Continental Bioregional Congress — a gathering of organizers, artists, land stewards, and community leaders from across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. If you know of a good site - make sure to recommend it using the survey by April 8th!

This week, the 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub in downtown Seattle was buzzing with action—and not the usual kind of startup hustle. On February 18th, a passionate crew of volunteers gathered for a bioregional sticker-packing party, and by the end of the day, 20,000 stickers were sorted, bundled, and prepped to ship across the bioregion.