Read the full article here. Published by the Canada National Observer on June 20th 2023 by Tori Fitzpatrick. You can

Get outside and celebrate the month of picnicking!

The Department of Bioregion was proud to win the prize for Systems and Governance. The Edge Prize celebrates regenerative projects from rural, Indigenous, and historically marginalized communities across the bioregion — from Alaska to California and between.

Submissions for the 2023 Summer Issue of the Cascadia Spoke are open!

We are officially debuting Regenerate Cascadia in collaboration with Design School for Regenerating Earth and Regenerative Communities Network.

Here at Cascadia Department of Bioregion we are thrilled to welcome our new Community Coordinator to the team.

Collection of resources about mapping, education, and compiling information on bioregionalism.

The Department of Bioregion, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, is seeking a community organizer and program coordinator to help us grow our engagement and impact.

The Department of Bioregion is super excited for the release of the Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, being released by Mountaineers Books March, 1st. For those not familiar, in the first ever ‘Cascadia’ field guide, local experts, poets and artists are working to create a literary field guide for the Cascadia bioregion.

The 2023 State of Cascadia Survey is here! The State of Cascadia is the only ongoing survey of supporters of the Cascadia movement. Make your voice heard!

We are super excited for our first run of Cascadia shirts and hoodies, just in time for the holidays!

The Cascadia Bioregion Atlas is a collaboratively written living atlas of the Cascadia Bioregion created by GIS Certificate candidates at Western Washington University with guidance by Dr. Aquila Flower. New maps and datasets will be added in future academic years.

The Cascadia Department of Bioregion is excited to partner with the University of Washington GIS Certificate program to work with a team of students to develop Cascadia related applications. This is also very exciting in that the Department of Bioregion just received our nonprofit ESRI ArcGIS online and desktop versions, so getting these set up and functioning to be able to pull data will be a huge boon for students and volunteers.

‍The Edge Prize is your opportunity to share what works, big or small, and find the others who want to join you, fund you, learn from you, or replicate your efforts locally. This is not a business plan competition. This is not a “pitch” competition. It’s not really a contest at all! This is about sharing what you’re already doing, why it’s working, and why it gives you hope.

Founded in March 2020, the Cooperative Gardens Commission (CGC) is a grassroots collective working to support food sovereignty efforts in response to COVID-19. The pandemic heightened the persistent injustice in our food system, falling especially hard on BIPOC, poor, undocumented, and otherwise marginalized communities. Our primary work is focused on distributing seeds to Seed Hubs, who function as central distributors of free seeds and information to their communities. In this capacity, CGC focuses on historically oppressed communities by prioritizing hubs already working with those most affected by the injustices of the pandemic and encouraging seed hub organizers who aren’t working with those groups to do so.

Very happy holiday season fellow Cascadians!

During this time of year, we want to celebrate what our bioregion gives us, the wonderful people living here in a seasonal and sustainable way. Choosing even one of the following steps can be a great way to have a more bioregionally friendly, inclusive meal. For many this is a time of giving, of thanks, and of being near friends and loved ones. We’d like to take a moment and share some easy steps to make any family gathering or meal a bioregional one.

The Department of Bioregion is excited to share our application for the City of Seattle 2023 Arts in the Park grant through our program the Cascadia Northwest Arts and Music Festival. Cascadia Northwest Solstice in Seattle will be an all ages event taking place in Beer Sheva Park on Saturday, June 24th. The gathering will celebrate the summer solstice and bring communities together for a day of artmaking, installation art, workshops, music and fun.

The Department of Bioregion was excited to apply for the City of Seattle’s Spatial Justice through Street Art grant on November 8th.

The Department of Bioregion was proud to be featured in a new article The Cascadia Region – Fun and Facts by the Kelowna Capital News on October 13th, 2022 by BW Uzelmann. Read the whole article at: https://canadatoday.news/bc/the-cascadia-region-fun-and-facts-kelowna-capital-news-55464/

The Department of Bioregion was honored to be featured in a new article by Laurie Debove printed on August 10th 2022in the French publication Succession and to be included in the book “Generations”.

The book Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry – edited by Derek Sheffield, CMarie Fuhrman, and Elizabeth Bradfield, published by Mountaineer Books, officially releases on March 1st 2023 and is now available for pre-order.