A call to all the Regenerators of Cascadia to participate
30 days
14 locations
(so far)
100+ organizers
on the ground
A month filled with presentations, workshops, and field trips
Contact Keala Young at:
keala@atlancenter.org
Contact Mike Brunt:
go2riamb@gmail.com
Contact Kwinn Gerald at:
quiquigerald@gmail.com
Contact Audrey & Alex Daye:
audreycdaye@gmail.com
Contact Christian Sun:
christiansun8@gmail.com
Contact Brandon Letsinger:
cascadia@deptofbioregion.org
Contact Deborah Koff-Chapin:
deborah@touchdrawing.com
Contact Rick Lukens:
rick@unitedearth.net
Contact Donna Morton:
donnalm652@gmail.com
Contact David Ketter:
dketter@whidbey.com
Contact Larry Greene:
larry@navigatingourfuture.org
Joe Brewer and the Design School for Regenerating Earth will be among us
Growing from the success of similar events in the great lakes bioregion, we have invited the Design School for Regenerating Earth to join us for a month long “Bioregional Activation Tour” here in Salmon Nation.
Joe is a global leader in bioregional regeneration and system complexity. He is a transdisciplinary scholar with a background in both earth sciences and cognitive sciences. He’s an inspiring speaker and leading-edge systems complexity thinker.
He’s currently doing on-the-ground regeneration work in a 500,000-hectare (~1.5 million-acre) bioregion around Barichara, Colombia, and helping to create a global bioregional network. He is the founder of the Design School for Regenerating Earth and the author of The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth.
He will lead a series of conversations, workshops and presentations to weave, highlight and empower amazing place-based networks, innovations and on-the-ground work happening across watersheds in the Cascadia bioregion.
These activations will partner with local teams to organize community workshops, presentations, discuss problems in their areas, and reimagine shared frameworks of stewardship that better represent the places we call home.
A stepping stone into bioregional regeneration
The bioregional activation will bring community organizers, scientists, policy planners, system designers in a wide variety of fields and backgrounds, to come together and share lessons that are working, and explore creating a regional vision and plan together.
Our goal is to
The idea of nestled communities is that we’re all a part of a larger system. Nature acts on the scale of watersheds, ecoregions and bioregions, so it’s really important that when we talk about [natural] disasters, whether it’s drought, flooding, earthquakes or wildfires, to have bioregional solutions for addressing these issues. And no state or province will ever be able to do that alone.
The activation tour operates in the spirit of the Gift Economy.
All the organizers are volunteering without any financial expectations. You can follow this link to see the details of the accumulated time all volunteers have spent preparing for the activation tour so far, as well as the cost of facilities and other organizational costs.
We are grateful for all the volunteers, attendees for participating in this bioregional activation tour. It is a stepping stone to regenerate our bioregion and work together to build the alternative system we need for what comes next. If you feel the call, you can gift any amount you are comfortable with.