HOW DO WE REGENERATE AN ENTIRE BIOREGION?

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Growing Bioregional Regeneration Teams

How do we regenerate an entire watershed, ecoregion or bioregion? What are the processes that need to be held as we explore these questions, and how do we get people supported who are doing regenerative work, as part of a whole system vision and plan?

One year ago, Regenerate Cascadia emerged out of an activation tour in which we travelled to communities around the Cascadia bioregion asking these questions. Now, we invite communities to come back together, to get started. 

In January, we will be launching a Bioregional Activation from January to March to grow initial Bioregional Regeneration Teams to support regeneration and watershed communities, discuss topics people find important, and explore the role of bioregional centers and sites, and initial in-person regional gatherings.

Learn more and join the Activation here:

An Emerging Community of Regenerators

Regenerate Cascadia is an online and in person network of regenerative projects, communities and organizers to reinforce work happening on the ground, grow bioregional governance; and celebrate our unique stories, autonomy, and context of place.

Our mission is:

“to regenerate the Cascadia bioregion and to create the conditions for a regenerative culture and movement to thrive”. 

Learn

We educate about Cascadia, Bioregionalism and Bioregional Mapping. You can find more information about some of the basics here:

  • What is Cascadia
  • Bioregionalism
  • Bioregional Mapping
  • How to Define a Bioregion

Ambassadors

Be an ambassador of your watershed. Find tools and resources to help every person be active for what they care about.

  • Join our Online Community
  • Take the Bioregional Quiz
  • Calendar of Events
  • Become a Steward

Regenerate

Take action to Regenerate the Cascadia Bioregion as part of our 501(c)3 network as a Regenerate Hub, Guild, Project or Cascadia BioFi.

  • What is a Landscape Hub?
  • What is a Bioregional Guild?
  • Get 501(c)3 Sponsorship
  • Cascadia BioFi

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What is Regenerate Cascadia?

Regenerate Cascadia is a 501(c)3 nonprofit program of the Department of Bioregion and is a social movement and capacity-building organization developing a vision and framework to administer a regeneration fund for Cascadia, a bioregion located along the upper Pacific Rim of North America stretching down the continental divide from Southeast Alaska to Cape Mendocino in Northern California, traveling down the Rocky Mountains and as far east as the Yellowstone Caldera, and in the west, extending off the coast along the Cascadia Subduction Zone. 

It is our goal to develop watershed and bioregional-based frameworks that can provide a viable and positive alternative to existing power structures. To accomplish these goals, we believe in bioregionalism, a grassroots approach to ecology that uses natural boundaries to reinforce sustainability, community self-determination, and regional self-reliance.

 
Cascadian Poetics panel: Innovation from Here, with panelists Stephen Collis, Jeanne Heuving, George Stanley, Joanne Kyger (Photo © Kim Goldberg)

Where did Regenerate Cascadia come from?

Regenerate Cascadia was launched in April of 2023 by Victoria artist Clare Attwell and Seattle organizer Brandon Letsinger. They were the recipients of the 2023 Salmon Nation Edgeprize: Systems and Governance Grant.  

After months of planning with 100+ local community organizers on both sides of the Canada-US border, they partnered with the Design School for Regenerating Earth to co-facilitate a month-long Bioregional Activation Tour. They traveled to 14 communities around Cascadia during October 2023, hosting presentations that asked, “How do we regenerate the Cascadia bioregion?”.

They met with more than 1000 individuals, including Indigenous knowledge keepers, regenerative leaders, groups, community artists, and elders across Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia through presentations, workshops, site visits, and strategy sessions. This was followed by an online summit that brought together 50+ presentations in a ‘Festival of What Works’ and concluded with an Open Space Unconference from November 3-12, 2023, where participants cocreated working groups for Regenerate Cascadia.

The vision resonated strongly with many communities across the bioregion. In each place, we asked: “How do we regenerate an entire landscape? What do people need to be supported in this work

"to create the conditions for a regenerative movement to thrive."

Regenerate Cascadia is a 501(c)3 nonprofit program of the Department of Bioregion. All gifts are tax deductible. ©2024 Regenerate Cascadia.

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We are building this AWESOME website with the Regenerate Cascadia community. It is still under construction – please bear with us during this co-creative process.

Please note: We will be removing the Guilds and Hubs option from the menu while we work on getting these processes ready.