The stewards of Regenerate Whatcom are happy to support the Climate Stewards Program and students!
WSU Skagit County Extension program launched its second Climate Stewards course to promote climate literacy, science and action the week of April 8, 2026. Support for the program comes from the Climate Commitment Act passed in Washington state in 2021. You can read more about the program in this Salish Current article and here.
The WSU Climate Steward certificate course offers classroom, online, and field experiences, with 10 sessions addressing:
- Social-emotional resilience and environmental justice
- Trauma-aware communication and community building
- WA Climate systems, modeling, and ecosystems
- Climate solutions in Ag, Forestry, Energy, and Water
- Climate policy and mitigation programs
Regenerate Whatcom, along with Regenerate Skagit and Whidby Climate Action will join in a panel to share our perspectives on climate issues. The students will tour Inspiration Farm and experience how applied permaculture and managing water on the land to support the small water cycle can establish a rich, diverse and abundant landscape.
Our focus is unique in the environmenal world in that we focus on whole living systems and measurment of the nine planetary boundaries as described by the Stockholm Resilience Center rather than any one isolated element, such as carbon capture.
While carbon capture (as an example) is important, the bigger driver of our current climate situation and all its impacts, is overshoot-we are extracting more from planet earth than she is able to regenerate and repair. The movement for regeneration is focused on learning to live in our bioregion in such a way that human and all beings can thrive and nature’s cycles can do their work.