Thomas Harun – How can earthquake preparedness become a catalyst for bioregional regeneration? What are some crucial leverage points we may activate with it to accelerate our transition from fossil fuel infrastructure to climate-friendly and resilient infrastructure? Why isn’t more being done to prepare for this cataclysm which threatens to severely afflict a quarter of our population? This workshop with Thomas Harun will draw on vital insights from Cascadia’s geology and culture to facilitate organizing across our bioregion, highlighting the importance of Cascadia’s meqaquake cycle to her unique dynamics of destruction and regeneration.

Janaki Kilgore shares how restoring healthy ecosystems and thriving food systems can seem like an impossible task, but nature is the expert at supporting life! Our job is to learn how to work with natural systems and avoid the mistakes humans frequently make that impede natural processes. Solutions are site-specific and you may have been given the response “it depends” to your question “what should I do?” Decades of studies and experience in designing and maintaining food and native plant gardens has lead me to synthesize three core principles and the best practices that can guide us in every action we take while working with the land. I welcome questions about the challenges you are facing.

Janaki Kilgore shares how restoring healthy ecosystems and thriving food systems can seem like an impossible task, but nature is the expert at supporting life! Our job is to learn how to work with natural systems and avoid the mistakes humans frequently make that impede natural processes. Solutions are site-specific and you may have been given the response “it depends” to your question “what should I do?” Decades of studies and experience in designing and maintaining food and native plant gardens has lead me to synthesize three core principles and the best practices that can guide us in every action we take while working with the land. I welcome questions about the challenges you are facing.

Join Paul Nelson and Jason Wirth as they share about the deep influence of Cascadia Poetry, Writing and Publishing

With David Haskell – Each of our Salish Sea island communities is home to dozens of nonprofit organizations, agency departments, and grassroots organizations addressing some aspect of the climate crisis. The concept to to unify the many parts, now operating in isolation to build a coherent movement – where we all collaborate to solutions commensurate to the challenges of climate change. We aspire to build upon each community’s successes thus far by sharing expertise, technology, and data and by encouraging more experiments, scaling and sharing the most successful ones for the greater well being of all. Through collaborative community action (e.g. projects) will be gain greater sovereignty over driving public decisions on climate.