Joe Brewer will join us for our first session of the day to help set context for Regenerate Cascadia, and what we are trying to build. 

Learning how to form a better relationship with water in your landscape can have a profound effect on the planet and the ecosystem’s health and well-being. “Water is all Life” Water is responsible for much of the heat dynamics on earth affecting climate far more than carbon. Learn how to form a better relationship with water in your landscape in order to have a positive impact on global issues personally. Designing a Water-Resilient Landscape Over the last several years we have witnessed increasing occurrences of droughts, floods, and threats of fires. Although we get over 3 feet of rain per year it is not consistent throughout the seasons. I will share with you an overview of strategies that can be implemented on your land to work with water to maximize the benefits and minimize the problems. Learning to read the land and partner with natural systems to create an abundant resilient regenerative system. Questions and answer period will follow the presentation. As a co-steward of Inspiration Farm, Brian has a wide breadth of practical knowledge on how to partner with natural systems to bring forth regenerative stability and abundance. He has three Permaculture Design certificates and is recently one of the first graduates from Zach Weiss’s Water Stories course at the professional level. He now teaches and offers consultations services for others who want to fast track resilient systems of their own. His enthusiasm for sharing this with a wider audience shows in all that he does. Inspiration Farm is an 11 acre homestead styled farm founded in 1994. Integrating Biodynamic and Permaculture practices in relation to annual & perennial food systems, animal husbandry, appropriate technology, land, water and nutrient management. Throughout the year Inspiration Farm hosts a variety of Events, Tours and Workshops. More info can be found at http://www.inspirationfarm.com

This workshop with Anna Purpera will provide an overview of ProSocial, a worldview based in evolutionary theory, contextual behavioral science, and Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prize winning work in economics. ProSocial can be combined with different governance structures, such as sociocracy, to improve engagement and collaboration between group members or groups of groups.

Inspired by Vandana Shiva’s vision of Earth Democracy and empowered by the emerging digital systems of blockchain governance, a federated planetary network of bioregional congresses is now possible. In this short talk, Benjamin Life will share more about the collaborative framework of the OpenCivics Consortium and its work to create a space for non-rivalrous research and development on the technological and social foundations of a federated planetary network of bioregional congresses.   I seem to be a verb… Benjamin Life is a civic innovator, community organizer, and artist focused on anti-rivalrous decentralized organizations as a mechanism for systemic and cultural adaptation. His work weaves together both the mythos and practical actualization of a more beautiful world, a world in which all human beings are empowered as agents to co-steward communities, cultures, and ecologies that are thriving, resilient, and participatory. Leveraging a large network of systemic innovators, his work as a co-founder of OpenCivics catalyzes a decentralized research, design, and coordination body able to address the root drivers of civilizational collapse. As a cultural leader, Benjamin produces writing, video, and experiences that express the cultural code of a life-affirming civilization.

This workshop will introduce our conceptualization of Resilient Communities and facilitate a collective inquiry into some of the critical requirements for bringing them into being. The purpose of Resilient Communities is to create and enjoy a convivial, equitable, and sustainable way of life through small cooperative communities that: • live in simple, affordable, low-impact dwellings in town or country • regeneratively produce much or most of their own food and other basic needs • nurture the healing and well-being of their members and the wider community • rejuvenate ecosystems while sequestering more carbon than they emit Ecovillages have been aspiring toward something like this for decades with only limited success. The Resilient Communities Project is innovating a systematic new approach to bringing the right combination of people and land together supported by a roadmap illuminating requirements and safeguards for achieving their vision. At the workshop we will provide a brief overview of the approach we are developing and then lead a collaborative investigation of some of the most important requirements for creating successful Resilient Communities.

Inspired by Vandana Shiva’s vision of Earth Democracy and empowered by the emerging digital systems of blockchain governance, a federated planetary network of bioregional congresses is now possible. In this short talk, Benjamin Life will share more about the collaborative framework of the OpenCivics Consortium and its work to create a space for non-rivalrous research and development on the technological and social foundations of a federated planetary network of bioregional congresses.   I seem to be a verb… Benjamin Life is a civic innovator, community organizer, and artist focused on anti-rivalrous decentralized organizations as a mechanism for systemic and cultural adaptation. His work weaves together both the mythos and practical actualization of a more beautiful world, a world in which all human beings are empowered as agents to co-steward communities, cultures, and ecologies that are thriving, resilient, and participatory. Leveraging a large network of systemic innovators, his work as a co-founder of OpenCivics catalyzes a decentralized research, design, and coordination body able to address the root drivers of civilizational collapse. As a cultural leader, Benjamin produces writing, video, and experiences that express the cultural code of a life-affirming civilization.