I am a cartographer, bureaucrat, gardener, ecologist, organizer, and activist, working in the Puget Sound restoration industry. I am cultivating mobile bio-cultural restoration field stations, a regional natural resource governance wiki and original works in bioregional cartography in addition to working for pay on restoration funding, ecosystem service quantification and providing technical assistance to local, tribal, state and federal restoration partners. Before that I worked in landscape construction and agroforestry.
Kurtis Howes
Business Owner, Consultant, Ecological Land Designer + Student of Water Stories on route to becoming a Water Restoration Practitioner based on Quw’utsun Territory in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island / Check Out www.remedyecodesign.com
Bridget Smith
Professional background in building codes and design. Involvement with permaculture groups and sustainable Ballard.
Debra R Giannini
Bioregional chronology: OZARKS New Destiny Federation: edited food land energy journal “Swallows” /OACC 1979-84, then NABC / Turtle Island Bior Congresses since 1st‘.84 SONORA
Soleri Associate 85-92, doc film “Soleri’s Cities” 92 / Musician: Songs with a Sense of Place ‘93 Settled in CASCADIA City Repair /Cascadia Education Project/Cascadia Planet /Goddard College MA Health Arts & Sciences: Expressive Healing w movement, art and music (Anna Halperin and Zuliekha dance lineage) Peter Berg was my intellectual father. I now work as a pediatric first responder in public schools, and sing, dance snd play music as much as possible.
Arnica Ste Marie
All about permaculture and local, regenerative food systems and would like to participate more in creating local (urban) food systems that EVERYONE can participate in/have access to. Community heals ❤️ I’m also a Reiki practitioner and healer. The collective trauma and grief everyone is experiencing on this planet right now is something I also feel called to address and be of service to help heal.
Youngblood Robin
Robin Youngblood is a Wisdom Keeper who has traveled the world sharing the perspectives, values and wisdom of her indigenous Coastal and Inland Salish peoples.
Dawn Szombathy
I’m a transplant from Austin, Texas. Happy to be here, connect with like minded folks and collaborate. Hoping to one day buy into a shared land community and establish an awesome little village with co-collaborators utilizing regenerative systems.
Rose Madrone
Working at the intersection of community building, filmmaking, sustainability, and education, Rose has created some effective tools with which to reinforce the importance of understanding how interconnected our world really is. Her film series of shorts, Connectivity Project, weaves together voice such as Fritjof Capra, Indigenous Wisdom Keepers, scientists, activists, and much more, empowering an understanding that our actions indeed make a huge difference in the world. Along with curricula that accompanies this work, schools and focus groups from 5th grade through adulthood have benefited from the conversations that are sparked by the this deeper way of understanding.
She is seeking ways for these films to be useful in the world, so please reach out if you want to learn more.
You can see the trailers on the website.
With a background in Botany, Herbal Medicine and sustainability, a sense of place has always been forefront, informing her actions. She has taken that sense of place and the importance of understanding how our actions impact others, and created tools to inspire awe, interconnections and a sense of responsibility.
