Heritage Park, 701 Water St SW, Olympia

Meet at Spiral Mound near 5th and Simmons, use Heritage Park parking lot on 5th.  Join us for a walk and talk about the Native history of this place, and a viewing of the salmon runs. Heritage Park is a 24-acre state-owned park adjacent to the State Capitol Campus, Capitol Lake and downtown Olympia. It is the northern extension of the historic West Capitol Campus. Joe is a complexity researcher with a unique academic background in atmospheric sciences, physics, philosophy, and cognitive linguistics. In 2020, he launched an initiative to regenerate 500,000 hectares of land in Barichara, Colombia, and in 2023, he founded the Design School for Regenerating Earth. A long-time resident of Seattle, Joe is returning from Colombia with a wealth of inspiration and strategies and is eager to share what he has learned about the potential to interweave bioregional communities for a thriving world.