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The Cascadia Department of Bioregion is available to help the media in any way we can. Our researchers and communications team can provide commentary, interviews, photos, story ideas, background information, or serve as expert sources. We work on a range of topics in the Cascadia bioregion, from policy and mapping to bioregionalism and movement building. If we canโ€™t comment on an issue ourselves, chances are we know someone who can.

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2018

Northwest Wine: British Columbia wine tops Cascadia Wine Competition โ€“ The Spokesman-Review-Apr 17, 2018. Last week, the Wild Goose Vineyards 2017 Pinot Gris took top honors at the sixth annual Cascadia Wine Competition, an international judging in Washingtonโ€™s โ€ฆ

Cascadia Announced Major Breakthrough In Blockchain Industy โ€“ Business Wire (press release)-Jan 15, 2018. This time the historical milestone was set by Cascadia Consumer Electronics Corp. (CSE: CK) (โ€œCascadiaโ€), a publicly listed Canadian company in transition to ..

Northwest Wine: Taste of Cascadia gathers 20 of regionโ€™s top โ€ฆ โ€“ Tri-City Herald-Jun 26, 2018. The June 30 event is called The Taste of Cascadia. It runs 1-4 p.m. and features 20 Northwest wineries and the people responsible for some of the top wines at โ€ฆ

Cascadia Rail pushes for Pacific Northwest bullet train โ€“ KOIN.com-Feb 12, 2018

Cascadia Rail is one of many groups advocating for the insertion of a bullet train, one that would connect Portland through Seattle to Vancouver B.C. and east to โ€ฆ

CASCADIA International Womenโ€™s Film Festival Celebrates Films โ€ฆ โ€“ whatcomtalk.com-Mar 13, 2018. We felt CASCADIA was a powerful and beautiful name. We are also partnering with the New York School of Visual Arts (SVA), co-founded by one of our โ€ฆ

Northwest artists share their travels in Cascadia exhibits โ€“ The Daily Herald-Apr 5, 2018. EDMONDS โ€” Cascadia Art Museum is still on a roll, showing first-of-its-kind exhibits of never-seen-before work from Northwest artists who flourished in the early โ€ฆ

High-speed rail enthusiasts push to connect Cascadia โ€“ CTV News-Jun 9, 2018. Cascadia Rail would like to see high-speed trains connecting Vancouver all the way to Portland. The northern leg of such a line could transport people between โ€ฆ

Getting There: High speed rail could link Spokane to Cascadia โ€ฆ โ€“ The Spokesman-Review-Jan 22, 2018. One of 11 so-called megaregions in North America, the Cascadia-area population is anticipated to grow by 40 percent over the next 30 years, adding about 3 โ€ฆ

Trip to Oregonโ€™s Cascadia Cave brings archaeology to life โ€“ OregonLive.com-May 13, 2018. During the past 25 years, Farque has led the hike to Cascadia Cave more than 450 times, introducing about 8,500 people to the special place. The site is about โ€ฆ

Taking It ALL Off for Mr Nude Cascadia (Photos). Advocate.com-May 5, 2018. Welcome to a new contest featuring and exploring male beauty. Mr. Nude Cascadia Northwest is a contest celebrating just this. To qualify, nudists must be a โ€ฆ

Small Homes, Big Climate Dividends for Cascadia โ€“ The Daily Score-Jul 18, 2018. During the early 20th century, city planners werenโ€™t thinking about the climate when they devised the homebuilding rules for Cascadiaโ€™s cities. They cemented โ€ฆ

Anthony Gill: High-speed rail would transform our state โ€“ The Spokesman-Review-Mar 3, 2018. Thatโ€™s why a new group of advocates spanning Vancouver, Bellingham, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma and Portland are coming together to connect Cascadia โ€ฆ

What Consumes More Gas than Many of Cascadiaโ€™s Cities Combined? โ€“ The Daily Score-Jul 2, 2018. The methanol refinery proposed for Kalama, Washington, is, by any measure, a goliath. On the banks of the Columbia River in southwest Washington, the โ€ฆ

Not your typical powwow. Cascadia Weekly-Jul 17, 2018 โ€“ Reviewed by Lisa Gresham. Wednesday, July 18, 2018. Tommy Orange did not grow up around books or aspire to be a writer. A recent graduate from the MFA โ€ฆ

โ€˜Cascadia: Where Oregon Meetsโ€™ traveling photo exhibit coming to OSU. Corvallis Gazette Times-Jun 28, 2018. Those were the themes that the Crossroads Carnegie Art Center in Baker City wanted to showcase in its fine art photography exhibit, โ€œCascadia: Where Oregon โ€ฆ

Trans-Cascadia Announces 2018 Race Dates โ€“ Pinkbike.com-Jan 16, 2018. Trans-Cascadia โ€“ a five-day all-inclusive backcountry blind enduro race โ€“ returns to the Pacific North West from September 26 to October 1, 2018. The race uses โ€ฆ

New interest group aims for advanced NW high speed rail โ€“ KIRO Seattle-Feb 16, 2018. A new coalition of transit interest groups are joining forces to form Cascadia Rail with the goal of building high-speed rail lines throughout Washington, Oregon, โ€ฆ

โ€œCascadiaโ€ Team Competes in Alternative World Cup โ€“ American Media Institute Newswire-Jun 21, 2018. โ€œCascadiaโ€ Team Competes in Alternative World Cup โ€ฆ who helped found the team and is a director of the Cascadia Underground, an advocacy group.

2017

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Washington Rivers, Salmon From โ€ฆ Center for Biological Diversity (press release)-Jan 10, 2017 โ€œSuction dredge miners are killing endangered salmon and polluting our waterways and it needs to stop,โ€ said Gabriel Scott, in-house counsel for Cascadia โ€ฆ

UW Bothell, Cascadia sign hate-free campus pledge โ€“ Bothell-Kenmore Reporter-Jan 18, 2017. University of Washington Bothell Chancellor Wolf Yeigh and Cascadia College President Eric Murray signed a pledge Jan. 17 underscoring their commitment to โ€ฆ

Cascadia Composers fall concerts: Spanning the spectrum โ€“ Oregon ArtsWatch-Jan 20, 2017 by MATTHEW ANDREWS. Cascadia Composers canโ€™t put on a boring concert. The organization of composers based primarily in the Northwest is only halfway โ€ฆ

The art of protesting Trump: Seattle residents get creative with their signs โ€“ Seattle Globalist-Jan 20, 2017. Cascadia Now and the Seattle Neighborhood Coalition, both non-profit, โ€ฆ Event organizer Brandon Letsinger said the event wonโ€™t be the last time that Seattle โ€ฆ

Into the Heart of Cascadia โ€“ Powder Magazine-Feb 21, 2017 Photo by Nic Alegre. The lost boys and former circus freaks stand on Shuksan Arm, waiting for the light to clear. Weโ€™re on the lip of Beast Ridge. The glaciated โ€ฆ

Universities establish joint center to use data for social good in โ€ฆ โ€“ UW Today-Feb 23, 2017 โ€œThanks to this generous gift from Microsoft, our two universities are poised to help transform the Cascadia region into a technological hub comparable to Silicon โ€ฆ

UW, UBCโ€™s Cascadia urban data project gets $1M from Microsoft โ€“ Local Source-The Seattle Times-Feb 23, 2017

Canada to Cascadia โ€“ Source Weekly-March 29,2017

The Road to Cascadia โ€“ A Magazine of American Culture-Apr 13, 2017. They call it Cascadiaโ€”a land of plunging waterfalls and snowcapped mountains, a mythical kingdom of towering trees and raging rivers. Here in Seattle, capital โ€ฆ

Far-Fetched As They Might Seem, Secession Movements Are Thriving โ€ฆ OPB News-Mar 23, 2017. And we sold out of flags โ€” which we thought weโ€™d be stocked to 2017 โ€” that day,โ€ said Brandon Letsinger, the founder of the Seattle-based nonprofit Cascadia โ€ฆ

Of Cascadiaโ€™s Big Cities, Whoโ€™s Tops in Bikeways? โ€“ The Daily Score-May 1, 2017. But in many ways the three largest urban centers of Cascadia form one big, soggy petri dish of experimentation in bike infrastructure. All three are North โ€ฆ

Four Secession Concepts to Save Independent Oregon from the โ€ฆ Willamette Week-May 17, 2017. Washington, D.C., is being consumed by an impending constitutional crisis inflamed by President Donald Trumpโ€™s decision to fire FBI Director โ€ฆ

Microsoft President Brad Smith on why life sciences should buy into โ€ฆ GeekWire-May 23, 2017. Speaking at Life Science Innovation Northwest in downtown Seattle, Smith reiterated the points of the Cascadia Innovation Corridor initiative, a push for greater โ€ฆ

By Bullet Train From Portland To Seattle To Vancouver, BC โ€ฆ KUOW News and Information-Jul 26, 2017. A feasibility study launched this month by WSDOT will analyze what it would take for Cascadia to get bullet trains like these in Japan. Tom Banse / Northwest โ€ฆ

This Week in Seattle: Cascadia bullet train, mayoral race narrows โ€ฆ GeekWire-Aug 5, 2017

Cascadia tech leaders pitch mixed reality as a โ€˜game-changing power โ€ฆ Microsoftโ€™s involvement is part of the companyโ€™s broader push to connect the regionโ€™s biggest cities along whatโ€™s known as the Cascadia Corridor. The company โ€ฆ Local Source-Business in Vancouver-Sep 12, 2017

Microsoft backs Seattle-Vancouver high-speed rail study as Cascadia โ€ฆ โ€“ Highly Cited-GeekWire-Sep 12, 2017

New partnerships advance the Cascadia Innovation Corridor โ€“ Canada NewsWire (press release)-Sep 12, 2017

US, Canadian Tech Innovation Effort Expands Initiatives with Microsoft โ€ฆ โ€“ Aviation Today-Sep 13, 2017. Three internationally recognized polytechnics have joined forces to provide industry aligned, high-skill talent for the Cascadia Corridorโ€™s workforce needs โ€ฆ

Behind the scenes with Cascadia Films and a Sequim โ€ฆ Peninsula Daily News-Sep 24, 2017. Sagenโ€™s company, Cascadia Films, already has made video content for 33 โ€ฆ Cascadia Films has been in the works for more than two years now, Sagen said.

Lawsuit Challenges Washington Wolf-killing Protocol. Center for Biological Diversity (press release)-Sep 25, 2017. Todayโ€™s suit, filed on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity and CascadiaWildlands, asserts that the agencyโ€™s killing of wolves from the Smackout and โ€ฆ

Federal Grant Funding Boosts Cascadia CleanTech Accelerator. Xconomy-Sep 26, 2017. Nearly two dozen Northwest cleantech startup companies have found their footing in the last two years through the Cascadia CleanTech Accelerator, โ€ฆ

Catalonia to Cascadia. LA Progressive (press release) (blog)-Oct 4, 2017. Here in the Pacific Northwest we refer to it as Cascadia. We even have our own flag, the beautiful Douglas Fir. We envision ourselves as Washington, Oregon, โ€ฆ

Cascadia fans unite โ€” off the pitch โ€” for a charity 24-hour game-a-thon โ€“ MLSsoccer.com-Nov 1, 2017. While the Audi 2017 MLS Cup Playoffs rage on, some regional rivalries burn hotter than ever. But even so, some Cascadia supporters are still coming together โ€ฆ

Rethinking Tincture โ€“ The Portland Mercury-Nov 1, 2017. So I was skeptical but polite when I recently sat down with Dave Wolfe, lead chemist, co-owner, and co-founder (with his wife Frea) of Cascadia Herbals.

Cascadia Now hopes to defend โ€˜the Dougโ€™ against Pacific Northwest โ€ฆโ€“ CHS Blog (blog)-Nov 4, 2017 โ€œIt should be a lot of fun,โ€ Cascadia Now founding director Brandon Letsinger said. โ€œWe want to get people jazzed up, educated and informed about Cascadia โ€ฆ

A collection for the ages. Cascadia Weekly-Nov 7, 2017. Reviewed by Tim McNulty. Wednesday, November 8, 2017. In a town known for its abundance of resident poets and writers, Port Townsend poet Finn Wilcox โ€ฆ

Meet Cascadia Underground: A new media collective with digital tools โ€ฆ GeekWire-Dec 5, 2017. Brandon Letsinger is the founder CascadiaNow, a non-profit that supports โ€ฆ Letsingerโ€™s โ€œCascadiaโ€ is a broad movement representing shared culture and โ€ฆ

Leading Organizations in the Pacific Northwest Sign MOU for โ€ฆ GlobeNewswire (press release)-Dec 8, 2017. The Cascadia Venture Acceleration Network MOU does not replace, but rather fully supports the innovation partnership that began in September 2016, when the โ€ฆ

Cascadia rising: New group aims to help Pacific NW rival Silicon โ€ฆ GeekWire-Dec 8, 2017. Washington state Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib announces the launch of the Cascadia Venture Accelerator Network at Cambia Grove. (GeekWire Photo / Monica โ€ฆ

What the Washington Train Derailment Means for Cascadia High โ€ฆ Next City-Dec 21, 2017. The Amtrak derailment in DuPont, Washington, this week was a tragic outcome for the maiden voyage of a brand-new route designed to speed up the ride โ€ฆ

2016

A Bioregional Declaration of Interdependence โ€“ Seattle Weekly-Nov 16, 2016. Letsingerโ€™s proposed new 501(c)4, Yes Cascadia, a political nonprofit separate from the charitable and cultural work of CascadiaNow, has not explicitly stated โ€ฆ

#CalExit gets some Northwesterners dreaming about Cascadia region -GeekWire-Nov 15, 2016. Ozy.com notes that the concept is picking up steam thanks to websites like Free Cascadia, CascadiaNow! and Yes Cascadia, as well as a Reddit subgroup thatโ€™s โ€ฆ

Oregon residents launch bid for independence from United States โ€ฆ The Independent-Nov 11, 2016 . The group said: โ€œYes Cascadia will qualify a citizenโ€™s initiative for the 2018 ballot that if passed would call for a special election for Cascadians in Washington โ€ฆ

British Columbia, Washington state to create Cascadia Innovation  โ€“ Access Washington-Sep 20, 2016. Premier Christy Clark and Gov. Jay Inslee today signed a memorandum of understanding affirming their shared interest in creating regional economic โ€ฆ

Gates, Nadella tout cross-border innovation corridor at BC conference. The Seattle Times-Sep 20, 2016

Bill Gates in Vancouver for Emerging Cascadia Innovation Corridor โ€ฆ CBC.ca-Sep 20, 2016

Seattle to Vancouver in 57 minutes? Political leaders push for cross โ€ฆ Highly Cited-GeekWire-Sep 20, 2016

Pulitzer highlight: New Yorker writer wins for Cascadia fault-line piece. Washington Post-Apr 18, 2016. Ignorance about this dynamic is one of its features, as Schulz wrote in the piece: โ€œThirty years ago, no one knew that the Cascadia subduction zone had ever โ€ฆ

Cascadia or Canada? #CalExit talk of Washington joining Canada โ€“ seattlepi.com-Nov 15, 2016

Fallout Cascadia is a Seattle-based Fallout 4 mod thatโ€™s โ€œa bit smaller โ€ฆ PCGamesN-May 24, 2016.

Is this booming Northwest land a paradise or disaster waiting to โ€ฆ Los Angeles Times-Jun 6, 2016. He was trying to explain not just the view in front of him, but all of Cascadia, โ€ฆ on the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the northwest coast near here, and the โ€ฆ

Cascadia: The Other โ€œLost Continentโ€ โ€“ Part I. Ancient Origins-Aug 25, 2016. Mount Shastaโ€™s Forgotten History & Legends, 2016.โ€œPalouse Falls, Washington. Evidence of a prehistoric deluge can be seen throughout the Cascadia region.

#CalExit gets some Northwesterners dreaming about Cascadia region. GeekWire-Nov 15, 2016. Cascadia Nowโ€™s Brandon Letsinger is managing the campaign, and he says his team is struggling to keep up with all the inquiries, donations and offers of โ€ฆ

Melting mountains: How lidar and 3D printing helped create incredible โ€ฆ Digital Trends-Jun 28, 2016. His company, Cascadia Candle Co, is poised to take Kickstarter by storm this week with whatโ€™s undoubtedly the most high-tech line of candles ever made: 3D โ€ฆ

And the Most Car-Sharing City in Cascadia Isโ€ฆ The Daily Score-May 10, 2016. Update 5/13/2016: A knowledgeable reader notes that Enterprise Carshare and U-Haul Carshare probably have another 20 vehicles scattered around Cascadia โ€ฆ

Five myths about the Pacific Rim โ€“ Sacramento Bee-Apr 29, 2016. Because of the 100 or more miles between most volcanoes and the largest faults, such as Cascadia, the shaking at the volcanoes is relatively weak.

Cascadia Art Museum โ€“ Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce-Nov 7, 2016. Cascadia Art Museum occupies half of what had been a 22,000-square-foot Safeway โ€ฆ Over each gallery entrance is a plaster relief sculpture Cascadia created โ€ฆ

How the West Coast Could Dump Trump โ€“ OZY-Nov 13, 2016 . Cascadia includes separate states, provinces and even countries, but proponents say itโ€™s connected by an acute sense of regionhood, as well as issues that โ€ฆ

Inslee launches new Resilient Washington subcabinet in preparation โ€ฆ Access Washington-Nov 4, 2016. โ€œWe learned a lot from Cascadia Rising, which is exactly why we conducted the exercise. Now the hard work really begins. I appreciate the governorโ€™s โ€ฆ

Cascadia Unite! Says Justin Trudeau and Bill Gates โ€“ KUOW News and Information-Sep 19, 2016. Bill Radke speaks with Todd Bishop, co-founder and editor of the technology news site GeekWire, about why some business and political leaders are working to โ€ฆ

Cascadia: A Vast, Dark Green Land of Mystery โ€“ Part II โ€“ Ancient Origins-Aug 25, 2016.  Cascadiaโ€™s legends typically incorporate some element of historical and cultural information. Native American traditions delegated the tribeโ€™s history to the โ€ฆ

Cascadia: A sanctuary for those terrorized by Trump โ€“ Crosscut-Nov 21, 2016. Still, Cascadia is in a position to offer a safe haven, a sanctuary, for many people. America, give us your terrorized, your targeted, your harassed. Weโ€™re not โ€ฆ

Word Nerd: Cascadia โ€“  Coast Weekend-Sep 1, 2016. Cascadia Subduction Zone: Also known as the Cascadia fault, this 600-plus-mile โ€œmegathrustโ€ fault line runs from Vancouver Island, B.C., down through Cape โ€ฆ

Vancouver and Seattle seek to come closer together โ€“ The Economist-Oct 13, 2016. โ€ฆ and the premier of British Columbia, Christy Clark, agreed to create the โ€œCascadiaInnovation Corridorโ€, named for the Cascade mountains that range up the โ€ฆ

Manage Your Life: The Trans-Cascadia Experience โ€“ Pinkbike.com-Nov 19, 2016. The trans-Cascadia experience ticks all the boxes (and then some) on the scientific quest to expand horizons, connect with our inner child and increase positivity โ€ฆ

Cascadia Mushrooms Brings Organic, Locally-Grown Mushrooms to โ€ฆ whatcomtalk.com-Jun 7, 2016. In 2009, Alex was able to take advantage of a loan program through the USDA to procure the 2.5-acre property Cascadia Mushrooms now calls home.

6 maps show what US would look like if West Coast seceded โ€“ OregonLive.com-Nov 10, 2016. The idea of โ€œCascadia,โ€ a nation that would include part of California, Oregon, Washington, the west coast of Canada and Alaska, has been around for a while โ€ฆ

Help plan the county you want to live in. Cascadia Weekly-Jan 19, 2016

By Matt Petryni. Wednesday, January 20, 2016. Xwotโ€™qom is a Coast Salish word (translated roughly as โ€œnoisy waterโ€) from which Whatcom County takes its โ€ฆ

Next Big Tech Corridor? Between Seattle and Vancouver, Planners โ€ฆโ€“ New York Times-Oct 2, 2016. Whether their grand vision of a โ€œCascadia innovation corridorโ€ โ€” which borrows its name from the regionโ€™s Cascade mountain range โ€” ever materializes, โ€ฆ

How the West Coast Could Dump Trump โ€“ OZY-Nov-13, 2016. Now, the movement has a new and powerful impetus, says Brandon Letsinger, founder of the Seattle-based Cascadia Now. Since the election, inquiries and โ€ฆ

Should California, Oregon and Washington join Canada? #Calexit talk โ€ฆ โ€“ The Seattle Times-Nov 15, 2016. British Columbia might have something to say about that name โ€” as they might South British Columbia. We could become the province of Cascadia or Calicadia โ€ฆ

SoulFood Coffeehouse owners bring Redmond community together โ€“ Redmond Reporter-Dec 2, 2016 โ€“ He added that they have an upcoming event to introduce people to Yes Cascadia, an organization focused on environmental activism. Oaks said they hope โ€ฆ

2015

Oil export change stirs 40-year old concerns over spills โ€“ Cascadia Weekly-Jan 5, 2016. By Bob Simmons. Wednesday, January 6, 2016. Suddenly, big oil has the political prize it has coveted for decades. The oil export ban, signed into law by โ€ฆ

Why Is the FBI Harassing Activists in Cascadia? โ€“ Earth Island Journal-Jan 19, 2015. Helen Yost of Moscow, Idaho, and Herb Goodwin of Bellingham, Washington, have spent years travelling through the bioregion of Cascadia to halt megaloads, โ€ฆ

High Speed Train Proposed Between Portland And Vancouver โ€“ Huffington Post Canada-Jan 22, 2015. โ€ฆ be on โ€ฆ it itโ€™s own corridor separate from freight rail,โ€ Brad Perkins โ€” the co-founder and CEO of Cascadia High Speed Rail told The Early Editionโ€™s Rick Cluff.

Cascadia secession apparently not as easy as it sounds โ€“ San Francisco Chronicle-Feb 13, 2015. Brandon Letsinger is a 28-year-old Seattle resident and the executive director of Cascadia Now!, a nonprofit group that wants to โ€œempower and grow the social โ€ฆ

Plenty of whale action on south Washington coast โ€“ Chinook Observer-Apr 13, 2015

Personnel with Olympia-based Cascadia Research Cooperative have been playing an active role in monitoring whales along the outer coast in recent days.

Meet โ€˜The Dougieโ€™ โ€” the coin, not the dance โ€“ News1130-Apr 29, 2015. The people pushing for a free and independent Cascadia are now minting โ€ฆ the Cascadian flag on the front,โ€ says Brandon Letsinger, founder of Cascadia Now!

Anthology of poetry from Cascadia celebrates sustainability, harmony โ€ฆ โ€“ Vancouver Sun-May 29, 2015. Cascadia is a bioregion spanning from Cape Mendocino in the south to Mount Logan in the north. It is that โ€œbioregionalism, or the effort to reimagine ourselves โ€ฆ

10 Frames: Scenes from Cascadia NW Arts & Music Fest, the Rural โ€ฆ TheStranger.com (blog)-Jul 30, 2015. It may have rained all weekend in Granite Falls, but that did nothing to dampen spirits at the first annual Cascadia NW Arts & Music Festival. If anything, the gray โ€ฆ

Eight moments that make Timbers-Sounders rivalry great โ€“ Sounder At Heart-Aug 28, 2015. Itโ€™s Rivalry Week. Are you ready? Are you pumped for a Cascadia battle? Okay, okay. The Seattle Sounders are not the most exciting team at the moment.

Cascadia: A state of mind, a bioregion of beer โ€“ The Province-Sep 29, 2015. (A version of this article appeared in The Growler 1.3.) Cascadia. Itโ€™s an evocative name. It conjures up images of dense evergreen forests, soaring snow-capped โ€ฆ

Lummi Youth join the kayaktivists โ€“ Cascadia Weekly-Oct 27, 2015 โ€“ Story by Fra
nk Hopper. Wednesday, October 28, 2015. The Lummi Youth Canoe Family will be traveling to Paris for the United Nations climate negotiations, Dec โ€ฆ

New art museum celebrates the distinct Pacific Northwest โ€“ Los Angeles Times-Nov 3, 2015 Cascadia Art Museum is housed in a 1960s-era Safeway supermarket, saved โ€ฆ Cascadia curator David F. Martin says Northwest art differs from that found in the โ€ฆ

Cascadia flag placed on roof of IOOF building โ€“ La Grande Observer-Nov 11, 2015 โ€“ The Cascadia Doug flag โ€œis a symbol for the natural beauty and inspiration that the Pacific Northwest provides, and is a direct representation of the bioregion,โ€ โ€ฆ

Forest Service Cancels Mitkof Island Timber Sale โ€“ SitNews-Nov 20, 2015. Those organizations โ€“ the Greater Southeast Alaska Conservation Community, Cascadia Wildlands, the Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace and the โ€ฆ

7 Beverages Found in Refillable Containers in Cascadia โ€“ The Daily Score-Dec 3, 2015. Despite these hurdles, refillable bottles may be making a comeback in Cascadia. Here are seven beverages you can now find in refillable containers across the โ€ฆ

Danny MacAskill Terrifies, Thrills in New Cascadia Video โ€“ Bicycling-Dec 11, 2015. Prepare to be stunnedโ€”once againโ€”by Danny MacAskill. The trials riderโ€™s latest video, Cascadia, features gorgeous cityscapes, incredible rooftop jumps, and โ€ฆ

2014

Denis Hayes and the Cascadia Sustainability Movement. Triple Pundit-Feb 2, 2014. By Miles Knowles. When it comes to managing sustainability issues such as climate change or diminishing fossil fuels, one might presume that the greatest โ€ฆ

Is Cascadia the new Quรฉbec? โ€“ The Seattle Globalist. Seattle Globalist-Feb 21, 2014 by Cooper Inveen The parallel is drawn between Canadaโ€™s French Speaking region and itโ€™s Pacific facing cousin.

Democracy or Corporatocracy? The choice is ours. The Ecologist-Feb 25, 2014โ€ฆ include some of the biggest: Coca-Cola (Honest Tea and Odwalla), Pepsi (Frito-Lay and Naked Juice), General Mills (Cheerios, Muir Glen, Cascadian Farm), โ€ฆ

What Is Cascadia, Anyway? Huffington Post Canada-Mar 12, 2014. Cascadia is an independence movement and proposed country combining Washington and Oregon states as well as British Columbia, according to a โ€ฆ

Burn, destroy, wreck, kill โ€“ SB Nation-March 26, 2014, by Matt Negrin. Soccerโ€™s Pig War produces spies and battle cries in the Pacific Northwest โ€ฆ of the Pacific Northwest between the cities of Portland and Seattle.

Portlandโ€™s new bridge has a name: Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the โ€ฆ KPTV.com-Apr 16, 2014. The other possibilities were the Abigail Scott Duniway Transit Bridge, the Cascadia Crossing Transit Bridge and the Wyโ€™east Transit Bridge. Originally, the fourth โ€ฆ

Reset of Imperialist Borders: A Reaction Against Globalization NEWS JUNKIE POST-May 5, 2014 โ€“ People all over the world, including the Scots, Catalans, Tuaregs, Crimeans, Kurds, Pashtuns, Basques and Palestinians are fighting for the right to have their โ€ฆ

On Visiting One of the Jewels in the Cascadia Crown โ€“ Black And Red United-May 7, 2014 โ€“ For many, a Portland Timbers game does not start at the usual 7:37pm kickoff time. Depending on the opponent, the game starts hours or even days before the โ€ฆ

Sold Out. The Portland Mercury-May 28, 2014. THE MUSEUM of Contemporary Craftโ€™s major exhibit, Fashioning Cascadia, has been on display for nearly a month. It captures much of the contemporary โ€ฆ

โ€˜Privatizingโ€™ Elliott State Forest a consequence of environmental law โ€ฆ The Oregonian-May 16, 2014. Protesters from Earth First! and Cascadia Rising Tide wait for transport the Douglas County Jail in Roseburg after they were arrested in 2009 for blocking access โ€ฆ

Soccer as Spectacle in the Pacific Northwest โ€“ New York Times-May 20, 2014 โ€“ But mostly I loved the sight of the half-dozen Vancouver fans in Portland, having just

Agalloch Reluctant Kings โ€“ Exclaim!-May 23, 2014. Agalloch are quick to deflect any suggestion that they are in any way responsible for Cascadian black metal. โ€œWe donโ€™t really consider ourselves directly โ€ฆ won the Cascadia Cup, taking their trophy, a giant silver ornately engraved โ€ฆ

Gimme a thermal break dept: What is a Cascadia Clip? โ€“ Treehugger.com-June 27, 2014 by Lloyd Alter lloydalter โ€“ Cascadia Windows out of Vancouver B.C. is spreading the word Cascadia far and wide with their innovative โ€œCascadia Clipโ€ construction material.

The World Cup for Countries That Donโ€™t Exist (Go Occitania!)The Atlantic-Jun 27, 2014 โ€“ North America has two member teams, Quebec and the northern region of Cascadia (between US and Canada)โ€”Texas and Vermont donโ€™t appear to be terribly โ€ฆ

Activists protest at Seneca Jones plant โ€“ Coos Bay World-Jul 8, 2014. Cordelia Finley, an activist with Cascadia Forest Defenders, said three of the groupโ€™s members were arrested after attaching themselves to equipment at the โ€ฆ

Cascadia teams travel to Old Pueblo for conference championship. TucsonSentinel.com-Jul 23, 2014 โ€“ Two teams of the three teams coming to Kino North Stadium this weekend to play in the PDL Western Conference championship are from Cascadia, that mythic โ€ฆ

Singer/songwriter Noe Venable tunes in, ventures out โ€“ SFGate-Jul 23, 2014. Focusing on folklore and mythology
, she delved into ancient stories and traditions and gradually created the verdant body of songs on her new album โ€œCascadia โ€ฆ

Should A Controversial Oregon Timber Harvest Become Regional โ€ฆ KUOW News and Information-Jul 29, 2014 โ€“ Cascadia Wildlandsโ€™ conservation director says the BLM has a backlog of forest thinning projects that could increase its timber yields and promote forest health โ€ฆCDC Round 2:

Dry Hill Enduro โ€“ Pinkbike.com-Aug 1, 2014 โ€“ Round 2 of the Cascadia Dirt Cup found its way to Dry Hill, just outside of the seaside town of Port Angeles, Washington. Dry Hill is home to the NW Cup โ€ฆ

CDC Round 3: Rainier Enduro โ€“ Pinkbike.com-Aug 18, 2014 โ€“ The Rainier Enduro venue has been on the bucket list for the CDC organizers since the series inception. The Highway 410 corridor trails, just outside Mt. Rainier โ€ฆ

The Washington State Flag Sucks โ€“ Seattle Weekly-Aug 26, 2014 โ€“ For some, Cascadia is ripe for secession from the U.S., as outlined in Ernest Callenbachโ€™s admirably goofy 1975 classic Ecotopia. But for Baretich, the flag and โ€ฆ

With Huckleberry Wolf Pack in Crosshairs, Conservation Groups โ€ฆ Center for Biological Diversity (press release)-Aug 28, 2014 โ€“ Inslee was filed by groups representing tens of thousands of Washington residents, including the Center for Biological Diversity, Cascadia Wildlands, Western โ€ฆ

American Separatists Are Thrilled About Scotland And Think It Will Lead To A โ€˜Paradigm Shiftโ€™ โ€“ Business Insider-Sept. 17, 2014, by Hunter Walker

An Alaskan Nationalist on the Scottish Independence Movement โ€“ Slate-Sept. 17 2014, By David Weigel

From Scotland to Cascadia, a new push to empower locals? Humanosphere-Sep 18, 2014 โ€“ โ€œThe words people use often carry a certain amount of stigma, at least as a political idea,โ€ said Brandon Letsinger, executive director of Cascadia Now โ€“

CDC Round 4: Tiger Mountain Enduro โ€“ Pinkbike.com-Sep 25, 2014 โ€“ The highly anticipated and sold out 4th round of the Cascadia Dirt Cup headed to a sunny and dry Tiger Mountain. A welcome change from last year.

Open house for โ€˜greenโ€™ home โ€“ The Daily Courier-Oct 7, 2014. The Ethel Lane House is being showcased by the Thompson-Okanagan Collaborative of the Cascadia Green Building Council today at 11:30 a.m.. Registered โ€ฆ

Cascadian Farm โ€˜Bee Friendlierโ€™ Effort Enlists Public to Help Protect โ€ฆ New York Times-Oct 12, 2014. ALARM has grown in recent years over the widespread loss of bee colonies, not just because of the canary-in-the-coal-mine implications about how factors like โ€ฆ

Poll: Oregon, Washington drivers think relying on GPS less distracting โ€ฆThe Oregonian โ€“ OregonLive.com-Aug 26, 2014 โ€“ Again, thereโ€™s a Cascadian Divide. For example, just 14 percent in eastern Oregon said they have โ€œexceptional confidenceโ€ in their navigation skills. In western โ€ฆCDC Series

Finale: Chuckanut Enduro โ€“ Pinkbike.com-Oct 24, 2014. Chuckanut Mountain and the Whatcom Mountain Bike Coalition(WMBC) played host for the second year in a row to the Cascadia Dirt Cup Series Finale.

Dictionary of must-try local beers โ€“ San Diego Reader-Oct 29, 2014. Mild by comparison to other San Diego black IPAs (or Cascadian dark ales as they are referred to in the Pacific Northwest), it provides a delicate enough โ€ฆ

The People Who Wouldnโ€™t Mind if the Pacific Northwest Were Its Own Country โ€“ Kelton Sears, Vice Magazine, September 3rd 2014. Last weekend I went to Cascadia Rainingman Festival to talked to Pacific Northwesterners who dream of a utopia based on environmentalism, renewable energy, and rejecting the influence of the rest of America.

Americans for independenceโ€ฆfrom America โ€“ USA TODAY-Nov 4, 2014 โ€“ If real change is going to start anywhere, it will be here,โ€ says Brandon Letsinger, director of the umbrella organization CascadiaNow. The hippy-sounding โ€ฆ

Secessionist Movements In America Refuse To Die โ€“ Huffington Post-Nov 6, 2014 โ€“ Like Cascadia, a wannabe-nation, which supporters call a โ€œbioregionโ€ that would โ€ฆ says Brandon Letsinger, director of the umbrella organization CascadiaNow.

Americans for Independence โ€” From America โ€“ NPR-Nov 15, 2014. Would-be nation Cascadia, which supporters call a โ€œbioregion,โ€ would include Washington, Oregon, bits of other U.S. states and British Columbia in Canada.

Cascadia Summit to โ€˜showcase the best of the bestโ€™ at Startup Week โ€“ Business in Vancouver. Nov 17, 2014. It doesnโ€™t make much sense to bring up venture capitalists from San Francisco โ€” arguably the worldโ€™s most active centre for tech investors โ€” any given week to โ€ฆ

Cascadia Forest Defenders protest โ€“ Statesman Journal-Dec 9, 2014. Alex Gloster (left), Cooper Otte, Skip Fibbers, Erin Grady and Richard Hayley dress up as lawmakers and pretend to auction off the Oregon State Capitol and the โ€ฆ

2013:

Cascadia: The Life and Breath of the World โ€“ by Frank Stewart and Trevor Carolan. University of Hawaii, July 2013. In this collection, exceptional writers, artists, and activists describe the complexity and richness of the region. Cascadia features work by Robert Bringhurst, Hugh Brody, Emily Carr, Wade Davis, Chief Dan George, Tom Jay, Eve Joseph, Maxine Hong Kingston, Theresa Kishkan, Charles Lillard, Barry Lopez, Lee Maracle, Susan Musgrave, Louis Owens, Bill Porter/Red Pine, Eden Robinson, Judith Roche, John Schreiber, Chief William Sepass, Rob Sieniuc, Gary Snyder, Richard Van Camp, Richard Wagamese, Rex Weyler, and Jan Zwicky.

New Cascadian National Soccer Team Eligible for VIVA Cup โ€“ Kelton Sears, The Seattle Weekly, July 29th. An article exploring the new Cascadia National Team and VIVA cup.

Towards Cascadian Food โ€“ by Emmett, The Olympia Times, July 18th 2013. The third post in a blog series exploring various aspects in Cascadian culture that exist in the here and now.

Camp Cascadia once again threatening Civil Disobedience โ€“ by Dirk Vanderhart, the Portland Mercury, July 15th 2013. Article about the Camp Cascadia efforts to block coverage of open air water reservoirs.

Cascadia: Uncle Sam Joins Socialists for Soccer? โ€“ by Michael Strickland, the American Thinker, July

Cascadiaโ€™s Appalachian Roots โ€“ by Emmett, The Olympia Times, July 8th 2013. The second post in a blog series exploring various aspects in Cascadian culture that exist in the here and now.

Oโ€™ Cascadia: Forget the Fourth, Fly the Fir โ€“ by Kelton Sears, The Seattle Weekly, July 3rd. Fun article detailing a Seattle Cascadia Now! Meeting

My Return to Cascadia โ€“ Brewpublic, June 10th 2013. Article blog story about a beer writer traveling through Cascadia and our distinct styles of beer.

A Regional Cascadian Personality Exists โ€˜Cascadian Calmโ€™: A long history of the Seattle Freeze โ€“ by Emmett, The Olympia Times, June 6th 2013. The first post in a blog series exploring various aspects in Cascadian culture that exist in the here and now.

The Cascadiad: A story of the Cascadian Commonwealth โ€“ J.D. Mitchell, June 2nd 2013. A fictional depiction of a Cascadia future based on NBCโ€™s new television show Revolution.

Cascadian Cuisine Economic Development Initiative Kicks Off โ€“ World Travel Association, May 7th 2013. A nice article talking about the launch of a conference in Portland to develop an official Cascadia Cuisine.

Cascadia โ€“ by Dan Roberts, April 26th 2013. An article exploring Northwest Independence, Regional Identity and the Cascadia National Team.

Cascadia Calls โ€“ by Michael Quigg, April 26th 2013. A short poem in tribute to Cascadia, where beats the heart of North American soccer.

A โ€˜Whom do you Hang withโ€™ Map of America โ€“ by Robert Krulwich, NPR.org, April 17th 2013. A detailed analysis of visualizations designed by tracking dollar bills to create a visualization of regional economies.

Cascadiaโ€™s Bumpy Recovery โ€“ by Jon Talton, the Seattle Times, April 6th 2013. An article talking about the economic recovery in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia, with a nice PDF infographic of how powerful our joint economy would be today.

CDP: A Cascadia Dark Poem โ€“ by Pope Brak, Screaming Robots, April 4th 2013. A cute little poem about Cascadia.

A New Map Of The U.S., Created By How Our Dollar Bills Move โ€“ by Stan Alcorn, Facts Co-Exist, March 18th 2013. Very cool visualization of how our money travels. Cascadia clearly emerges as a region.

Buzzword of the Month: Cascadia โ€“ by Tom Gierasimczuk, BC Business Magazine, March 4th 2013. Article discussing about how Cascadia is the buzzword of the month. Documents many of the ways Cascadia has gotten in the news recently.

In the 18: Cascadia Pride โ€“ Kyler Parris, GoalWA.net, February 21st, 2013. A nice article documenting CAFFs process of application for applying to the NF-Board in Geneva for a Cascadian National Team.

Honesty Required in Cascadia Cup Discussions โ€“ Zach Slaton, Forbes, January 24th 2013. Discusses the legal battle between the Cascadia Cup Council and the MLS set into the context of Cascadia.

Cascadia Exhibit opens at Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford โ€“ US Consulate, January 22nd 2013. Details for the upcoming Cascadia exhibit at the Reach Gallery.

Cascadia and Coal โ€“ Pete McMartin, the Vancouver Sun, January 21st 2013. A look at the ongoing coal and oil pipeline fights taking place around the bioregion.

2012:

Explorations of Cascadian Cartography [Video] โ€“ Pretty Good Guy Productions, December 10th 2012. Video about the exhibits for the Cascadian Cartography Exhibit in Portland.

Decolonizing Cascadia: 7th Annual Regional Geography Conference โ€“  Margo Greenwood and Sarah de Leeuw, University of British Columbia with support from regional universities, November 16th and 17th.

Welcome to Cascadia โ€“ Rebecca Bolwitt, August 24th 2012. The Cascadia Now! social movement gets a great mention in the lead up to the Cascadia Cup match between the Vancouver WhiteCaps and Portland Timber Army.

Cascadia Rising! โ€“ Martin Patail, editor of the Portland Monthly, July edition 2012. Break out the fireworks for the northwestโ€™s independent state of mind, this in depth article covers the full range of Cascadia idealism and breadth of the Cascadia movement, as both a social and cultural idea.

BBC โ€“ The day in images, July 4th 2012: (image 11 of 12) An image of a Portland Timbers fan made it all the way to the BBC website for their photo journalism documenting the day in pictures.

10 Movements to Secede from the United
States
 โ€“ Lauren Davis, Io9.com, July 4th 2012. Cascadia receives an honorary mention.

Portland Giant Tifo Throws down Gauntlet to Seattle Sounders โ€“ Graham Parker, the Guardian UK, June 28th 2012

Cascadia: United under a Symbol โ€“ by Nate Sulat, MLS Reserves, June 27th 2012.

Cascadia Now! advocates shift in culture, not secession โ€“ Alicia Halberg, the Seattle Times, May 24th 2012. Article features a great interview with Seattle UW Cascadia Now! members.

The Cascadia Cup: On the CNMT, Supporter Culture, the End of Globalism and the Future of Football โ€“ by Jordan Smith, 79 Forever. A blog post from a Vancouver Whitecap on coming to discover Cascadia.

Washington Rules โ€“ by Joe Korbuszewski, February 9th 2012. Cascadian Independence gets a nice mention on this fun list of reasons why Washington State is awesome.

Ecolopolis 5: High Speed Rail (HRV) in Cascadiaโ€“ by Dr. Ethan Seltzer (advisor), Becky Bodonyi, Sarah Bronstein, Erin Kirkpatrick, Dillon Mahmoudi, Andrew Parish, Chloe Ritter, Tony Vi, Department of Regional Planning & Metropolitan Growth Management Portland State University and in Cooperation with the University of Washington and Cascadia Center.

2011:

The Connected States of America โ€“ Carlo Ratti, the New York Times, July 2nd 2011. Using mobile communications to redraw community boundaries. Cascadia Emerges clearly in these studies.

The Citizenโ€™s Guide to Seattle Beer: The Republic Of Cascadia โ€“ By Jessica Voelker, Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, May edition 2011.

The Republic of Cascadia โ€“ Kaya Webley, TIME Magazine, January 10th 2011. Cascadia ranks as #8 on Time Magazineโ€™s top 10 list of the worlds aspiring nations.

Secession Digression โ€“ Stacy Brownhill, Wilamette Weekly, January 5th 2011. Cascadian Independence Project gets mentioned in Portlands Weekly paper, though they get our flag, website and a few other details slightly incorrect.

History Makes Cascadia Cup Unique โ€“ by Dave Clark, The Sounders at Heart January 1st 2011. Nice article talking about a brief history of Cascadia MLS teams and the distinctiveness of the yearly Cascadia Cup.

2010:

Modern Day Secessionists: An Interactive Map โ€“ By Nick BaumannDave Gilson, and Tim Murphy, Mother Jones Magazine, November 8th 2010. Cascadia gets a nod in an interactive map designed by Mother Jones magazine.

Investing in Cascadia โ€“ by Kevin McElroy, The Daily Profit, November 30th 2010. Cascadia gets explained in the lens of railroad BNI investor blog. Their judgement: Cascadia is worth the investment!

Cascadia: The New Frontier -by Peter Severinson, BC Business Journal 2010. Article talking about how the Olympics, and efforts to further regional integration may help make Cascadia a reality.

Dreams of a Unified Northwest are Halted at the Border โ€“ by William Yardley, the New York Times 2010. Article discusses how the Olympics and increased border security has hampered bioregional unification, instead of increasing it like some had hoped.

A Vision for Cascadia โ€“ Excerpt from America 2050 โ€“ Connecting Cascadia 2010. Part of a larger book discussing high speed regional transit, this excerpt contains a nice and concise view of Cascadia.

Hopworks Secession Black IPA Arrives โ€“ Beernews, February 17th 2010 by the Hopworks Urban Brewary (the HUB) down in Portland, OR.

A World away from Texas โ€“ by Peter Preston, The Guardian February 28th 2010.

Cascadia, Where Moral Hand-Wringing is an Olympic Sport โ€“ Knute Berger, CrossCut, March 1st 2010.

2009:

Urban Cascadia goes to China โ€“ by Knute Berger, Crosscut 2009.  Sustainability ideas from Cascadia in China for an Expo.

The Cascadian Dream โ€“ by Knute Berger, Crosscut 2009. A look at nature, regionalism and the spirit of John Muir.

Where else do they wear fleece to the Opera? โ€“ Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun 2009. A brief discussion of Cascadian practicality and fashion (or lack there of =).

Utopia: Are we there yet? โ€“ Knute Berger, Crosscut 2009. Review of the PAFAC art show.

Envisioning Cascadia: 33 Artists Envision a Homeland โ€“ Port Angeles Fine Arts Center showing from July 5th to November 9th of 2009. Work by 33 different Cascadian artists. Will work to try and track down more author info and artworks.

Is Cascadiaโ€™s Train Coming in? โ€“ by Knute Berger, the Crosscut May 19th 2009. High-speed rail between Seattle and Vancouver could be a catalyst for regional development, and identity.

(PDF) Ecolopolis 4.0: Livability in Cascadia โ€“ by class USP 549: Regional Planning and Metropolitan Growth Management, Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University, 2009.

2008:

Cascadian Independence Project โ€“ by Kevin Beals, The Seattle Sinner, 2008.

(PDF) Ecolopolis 3.0: Infrastructure and Sustainability in Cascadia โ€“ USP 549: Regional Planning and Metropolitan Growth Management, Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University, 2008.

Book: Cascadia:
The Elusive Utopia, Exploring the Spirit of the Pacific Northwest โ€“ by Douglas Todd, 2008. A collection of essays on the history, culture and idea of Cascadia.

Pacific Coast Leaders Build Regional Collaboration โ€“ Governors Office of Washington 2008. Announcement on the signing of Pacific Coast agreement to further build bioregional economic and environmental ties.

The American Secessionist Streak โ€“ Christopher Ketcham, LA Times, September 2008.

Cascadia Series 3: Natural Environment Shaped our Culture โ€“ Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun May 8th 2008. The Third and final installation in a three part newspaper series covering different aspects of Cascadia.

Cascadia Series 2: Shared Cultural Traits, Values โ€“ Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun May 7th 2008. The second in a three part newspaper series covering different aspects of Cascadia.

Cascadia Series 1: Naive Dream or the Next Frontier? โ€“ Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun May 6th 2008. The first in a three part newspaper series covering different aspects of Cascadia.

The Annals of Pacific Northwest Secession โ€“ by Knute Berger, Crosscut, May 6th 2008.

Venting Nickels Suggests Secession โ€“ Sharon Pian Chan and Ashley Bach, the Seattle Times, April 18th 2008.

Superโ€ฆ Naturalโ€ฆ Northern Cascadia? โ€“ Jack Knox, The Times Colonist, February 18th 2008.

Most Likely to Secede โ€“ Christopher Ketcham, Good Magazine, January 2008.

Advice from Author: Choose where you Live Carefully โ€“ John Talton, The Seattle Times, 2008.

(PDF) Branding Cascadia: Considering Cascadiaโ€™s Conflicting Conceptualizations, Who Gets to Decide? โ€“ P.J. Smith, Fraser University, 2008.

2006-2007:

Cascadia: More than a Dream โ€“ by Miro Cernetig, Vancouver Sun 2007. Article discussing various economic and cultural integration of Cascadia.

(PDF) NGO Transborder Organizations San Diego-Tijuana and Vancouver-Seattle Regionsโ€“ by Taylor Lawrence, Frontera Norte 2007.

Cascadia and the End of the Nation-State: Interrogating the Bases of Transborder Boosterism โ€“ sparke&uwashington.edu. Accessed, May 14, 2007.

(PDF) Cascadia Ecolopolis 2.0โ€“ by Ethan Seltzer, Evergreen State University 2006. Written over the period of several classes by many of its students. Huge project and very informative paper on many different Cascadian aspects.

Divided we Stand, United We Fall โ€“ Jannsson, David. Counterpunch, December 20th 2006.

Welcome to the Evergreen Revolution โ€“ Matthew Gauk, The Martlet, November 9th, 2006.

Coming together to Ponder Pulling Apart โ€“ Paul Nussbaum, Philadelphia Inquirer. November 2006.

Free Cascadia โ€“ Kera Abraham, Eugene Weekly. September 9th 2006.

Cascadia Rising โ€“ Gudrun Will, the Vancouver Review, 2006.

2001-2005:

Reading the Region: Aggressive Regionalism โ€“ by the University of Washington Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest. A nice brief history of Cascadian regionalism, with some nice quotes. (circa 2006?).

Book: Cascadian Adventures: Shared Vision, Strategic Alliances and Ingrained Barriers in a Transborder Region โ€“ by Alan Artibise. 2005. Chapter 12 of Holding the Line: Borders in a Global World.

Time to Revive Cascadia โ€“ by Christopher Key, The Tyee 2005. Author talks about the different qualities that define space and the irrelevance of archaic artificial boundaries.

The Man who Invented Ecotopia โ€“ Ernest Callenbach talks about Localism, the Future, and the State of Ecotopian Ideals (2005). In depth interview with Geov Parrish and the Seattle Weekly.

Eco-Cult โ€“ Revisiting Ecotopia 30 years Later. By Pat Joseph, from June of 2005, a look back at Ecotopia and itโ€™s impact.

(PDF) Cascadia: Getting to Know your Bioregion โ€“ by Jeff Mocniak and Tina Floyd by the Step Back Collective, 2005.

Welcome to Cascadia โ€“ Steve Woodward, The Oregonian. November 14th 2004.

Republic, Bioregion, Utopia or Commonwealth? โ€“ A history of various Cascadian movements from itโ€™s inception as the Oregon territories. Originally posted by Alexander on the Republic of Cascadia site which can be found here. Date unknown (2004?)

What or where is Cascadia? โ€“ A nice descriptor, history and overview of the Cascadian bio-region. Originally posted by Alexander on the Republic of Cascadia website which can be found here. Date unknown (2004?)

Western Regionalism: Views on Cascadia โ€“ Phillips, James D. Canada โ€” United States Law Journal; 2004, Vol. 30, p333-339, 7p

Cascading Concepts of Cascadia: A Territory or A Notion? โ€“ Smith, Patrick J. Post Canada: Issue 25 Spring, 2002.

1996-2000:

Book: The Politics of Resentment: British Columbia Regionalism and Canadian Unity โ€“ by Philip Resnick, University of British Columbia press, 2000.

Of Poetry and Plu
mbing: Managing Common Borders: North American Border Communities in the 21st Century โ€“ Papademetriou, D. and Meyers D. 2000 Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Baseball Season in Seattle Sets off Cascadia Dreams โ€“ by Patrick Nagle, The Vancouver Sun, August 3rd 1999.

Emerging Cascadia: Geography, Economy Bring Northwest Cities Ever Closer โ€“ Porterfield E. 1999 Christian Science Monitor 26 July

The Bioregional Basis of Forest Certification: Why Cascadia? โ€“ by David Simpson, University of Idaho, October 7th 1998.

Vancouver and Cascadia โ€“ Robert Kaplan, The Atlantic Monthly Online, 1998. An excerpt of a three piece segment on different regions within the United States describing the authors unique experience within Cascadia.

Connecting Cascadiaโ€™s Communities โ€“ Agnew B. Seattle Times  14 July 1998.

Tran State Entities: Posmodern Cracks in the Great Wesphalian Dam โ€“ Relyea S. 1998  Geopolitics

The Rain Forests of Home: Profile of a North American Biroegion โ€“ Schoonmaker P von Hagen B. and Wolf, E 1997  Washington, DC: Island Press

Book: Cascadia: An Emerging Regional Model โ€“ by Alan Arbitise, Anne Vernez Moudon, and Ethan Selzer 1997. Cascadia: Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver section of the book Cities in our future: growth and form, environmental health and social equity.

Politicians a Missing Cascadian Link โ€“ by Paul Freeman, Puget Sound Business Journal 1997. Article discussing economic integration, PNWER, and the idea of Cascadia.

Metropolis Unbound: The Sprawling American City and the Search for Alternatives โ€“ by Robert Geddes, The American Prospect 1997. A brief excerpt talking about leading urban and regional planning within the Cascadian bioregion.

Americaโ€™s Crackup โ€“ Fleming, Thomas, National Review, 00280038, 7/28/1997, Vol. 49, Issue 14

Cascadia and WestCan โ€“ Independence Now! โ€“ by Bob Orrick, Senior Years, Volume 3 Number 15 (circa 1996?).

(PDF) The Idea of Cascadia: Emergent Transborder Regionalisms in the Pacific Northwest โ€“ Western Canada โ€“ by Alper Donald K, The Journal of Borderlands Studies, Volume 9, Fall 1996.

Cascadian Adventures: Shared Visions, Strategic Alliances, and Ingrained Barriers in a Transborder Region โ€“ by Alan F. J. Artibise. Manuscript from On Brotherly Terms symposium, University of Washington, Seattle, 1996.

UP TO 1995:

The Cascadian Flag: It Flows as it Flies โ€“ By David McCloskey, The Cascadia Institute 1995.

Achieving Sustainability in Cascadia: An Emerging Model of Urban Growth โ€“ by Alan Artibise, North American Cities and the Global Economy: Challenges and Opportunities, 1995 pp 221-250.

Cascadia: The New Binationalism of Western Canada and the U.S. Pacific Northwest โ€“ Schell and Hamer 1995 in Earle R. and Wirth J. Identities in North America: The Search for Community Palo Alto, CA Stanford University Press

Toward Sustainable Urbanization on Mainstreet Cascadia โ€“ Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington, Cities Volume 13, Issue 5, October 1996, Pages 339-354.

Trade, Investment and the New Regionalism: Cascadia and its Economic Links with Japan โ€“ by David Edginton, Canadian Journal of Regional Science, vol. XVIII, no. 3, 1995, pp.333-356.

The Americas: British Columbiaโ€™s future may not lie with โ€˜Old Canadaโ€™ โ€“ Powell, Mark W. Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: Jun 9, 1995.

Welcome to Cascadia โ€“ The Economist, 00130613, 5/21/1994, Vol. 331, Issue 7864

Northwestโ€™s Economy Defies National Borders โ€“ Schodolski, V. 1994 Chicago Tribune 1 August

Cascadia โ€“ by Janet Johnson, Seattle University News. Spring, 1994. p. 21-23.

Cascadia: A Great Green Land on the Northeast Pacific Rim โ€“ by David McCloskey, Cascadia Planet, 1994.

Cascadia: Itโ€™s As Much a State of Mind as a Geographic Place โ€“ Seattle University News (Spring 1994): 21-23.

The Canadian Geographer, vol.37, no.2, 1993, pp.120-131, โ€“ on regional culture and music; inaugural edition of the journal THE NEW PACIFIC. An early edition developed a contest for a Cascadia flag.

โ€œCascadiaโ€ Borders on Future โ€“ by Karl Schoenberger, LA Times 1993. A very early news article discussing the bioregion and concept of Cascadian independence.

Cascadia: A state of (various) mind(s) โ€“ Henkel, William B., Chicago Review, 00093696, 1993, Vol. 39, Issue 3/4

What is the Future of Cascadia? โ€“ by former Seattle mayor Paul Schell and J. Hamer. 1993. Discovery Institute Inquiryโ€. Occasional Paper 2. Seattle: Discovery Institute.

The Pacific Northwest Economic Region: A Multi-state Multi-province Regional Approach to Economic Development โ€“ Alan Bluechel, Vol 11, Winter 1993, pp27-29.

Cascadia: The North Pacific West โ€“ by former mayor Paul Schell, Unpublished Manuscript, 1992.

Weโ€™re outta here โ€“ Overby, Peter, Common Cause Magazine, 08846537, Win 1992, Vol. 18, Issue 4

A Green Island In A Sea of Envy: Welcome to Cascadia, the West Coast Ecotopianโ€™s Dream State โ€“ by Ian Gill, THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, June 5-12, 1992, pp.7-9.

Et In Cascadia, Ego โ€“ Economist. 1992. February 29: 28.

Welcome To The Republic Of Pacifica โ€“ by Mark Moseley, VANCOUVER SUN, March 7, 1991, p.A 11.

Cascadia โ€“ by Eileen Quickley, The New Pacific, Number 2, Winter-Spring 1990 pp. 2- 3.

Book: The Nine Nations of North America โ€“ by Joel Garreau, 1981

Book: Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging โ€“ by Ernest Callenbach 1975 and 1981. A cult classic and the first recent book to mention a unified bioregion.

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