Welcome to the Regenerate Cascadia team Update for 4.3.25! Watch the video for all the details and nuances! For a summary of topics covered, keep reading!
How to Organize Your Bioregion Learning Journey!
The Learning Journey “How to Organize Your Bioregion” offered by The Design School for Regenerating Earth has begun with a robust Cascadia Cohort! Andra Vltavín our Regenerate Cascadia Cohort Coordinator is helping all of us get connected, oriented and so much more!
We have over 100 signups in the Cohort, with 84 folks deeply engaged in their landscapes! Andra created a map of where all Cohort participants are-check out their presentation in the above video to see folks close to you! Andra is also working on a Community Calendar for bioregional events-stay tuned on the Regenerate Cascadia website, Learning Journeys. It is not too late to join the Learning Journey-check out the link above!
Move to organize an 11th Continental Bioregional Congress 2026!!
The last Bioregional Continental Congress was in 2010. David Haenke and others are working to organize the 11th for 2026! The call for choosing locations has us excited as there are a whole host of rich learning locations in Cascadia, as well as many experienced and knowledgable people in Cascadia that could step up to make it happen. This fits in with the goals of Regenerate Cascadia to help organize local eco-regional confluences and build a Cascadia Regional Conference. Stay tuned for more!
You can read more about Continental Bioregional Congresses here and watch a YouTube video with David Haenke and Daniel Wahl here.
Explorer Gitcoin-Global Regeneration Coordination Round
We are very excited that Regenerate Cascadia is a part of the Explorer Gitcoin-Global Regeneration Coordination Round!!! This is a great opportunity to support Regenerate Cascadia, and other regenerative work, by donating to this Gitcoin Round! The cool thing is that Gitcoin grants support open source, public good works and the priority is for small donations for many projects rather than larger donations for one project!!! A $2.00 donation can yield a $50 match!
Regenerate Cascadia can receive up to an $8700 match this round. To participate go to Explorer Gitcoin-Global Regeneration Coordination Round!!! Donate to Regenerate Cascadia and other great work!
Donations accepted through April 16th.
Grant Proposal Submitted to EPA Thriving Communities Grant
We have submitted a proposal for an EPA Thriving Communities Grant. It is for a 1-year planning grant that will help us to build and support a hub cultivator program bioregional mapping processes, add administrative support and provide stipends for up to 10 landscapes for 1 year.
Given what is happening in the Federal government right now, it is not clear if the funds will be made available-it is currently in the courts. Send all positive wishes, prayers and more that the funds can come through.
Development of the Regenerate Cascadia Bioregional Program
The past year we have spent countless hours of learning, focus, discussion, dreaming and deep strategic planning to develop what we are calling the Regenerate Cascadia Bioregional Program. Those of you with us on the journey have seen and perhaps been, a part of discussions of hubs, guilds, seed groups and more! We appreciate and value all this input and patience as we worked internally to build strong infrastructure to support a path forward for work on and in Cascadia landscapes focused on regeneration!
The program details will be made public soon-in fact, it has already started with the Cascadia Cohort of the “How to Organize Your Bioregion” Learning Journey (it is not too late to join as of this writing!).
The program is designed to support a hub cultivator program with seed groups and landscape groups that can develop into more structured landscape hubs in local landscapes. It is set up so that Regenerate Cascadia, as a non-profit, can provide to local groups, services such as governance, Biofinancing, and how we weave our learning together around our work, governance, financing and more.
Right now, we are working on the applications, community and participation agreements. Stay tuned in the next weeks for more information and invitations to join.
Look for the next newsletter from Bioregional Earth for an article about the Regenerate Cascadia Bioregional Program. What Regenerate Cascadia is doing has generated a lot of interest-the program, the nested scales we are working with, Biofiance and more. The “theory of change” behind the program is shared and discussed.
Regenerate Cascadia Grows
Regenerate Cascadia now has 7 paid staff members (not full time) to support the work of Regenerate Cascadia and ready to support the work of the Regenerate Cascadia Bioregional Programs outlined above! This building up of necessary infrastructure to provide deep, stable services to the program is a huge step forward and represents lots of behind-the-scenes work! Thank you, Brandon and Clare!
As reported before, a non-profit version of Regenerate Cascadia is being set up in Canada to account for different legal requirements across the borders. We are excited to have Polly Orr now onboard in Canada coordinating the Canadian nonprofit set up.
Community Meetings
Groups in Cascadia landscapes continue to form!
Recently Clare and Brandon met with a group from Whatcom County to discuss programs and next steps. They also met with folks on Whidbey Island, including folks from different foundations, environmental action networks and more. They discussed what it might take for a landscape hub to come together.
Looking forward to hearing more soon about these and other groups that are moving forward!
Stay connected!
- Check out our main blog at regeneratecascadia.org
- Find us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and X using Regenerate Cascadia.
- You can join our Hylo Regenerate Cascadia or on YouTube as the Department of Bioregion.