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Reporting on Ecotopia: Cross-border environmental media in the Salish Sea & Cascadia

Reporting on Ecotopia: Cross-border environmental media in the Salish Sea & Cascadia

This panel forum opens questions about the evolution of media and news venues in our cross-border region. Featuring a slate of outstanding journalists covering environmental issues in our region, we will explore questions like:

  • How do regional media address transboundary issues, such as the energy economy, political regulation, and climate change policy?

  • What is the role of media producers and consumers in fostering cross-border conversations around the Salish Sea and more broadly throughout Cascadia?

  • What is the future of place-based news to address shared crises and solutions in our shared bioregion?

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Share a Post, Join our Cascadia Day Raffle!

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Share a Post, Join our Cascadia Day Raffle!

Tag us in a picture or post about Cascadia, and you’ll be automatically entered to win lots of Cascadia gear that we’ll be giving out during the day and next day. We'll be sharing images & reposting all day, so make sure to give us a tag at @cascadiabioregion on facebook and instagram, and @cascadiadept on twitter. and you’ll be entered to win some of our Cascadia Giveaways, including several bundles with t-shirts, flags, masks, stickers, passports and more.

Happy May 18th, Cascadia Day!

Happy May 18th, Cascadia Day!

From the mountains to the sea, our home features some of the most diverse, beautiful and dynamic landscapes in the entire world. Our people are as diverse as the beauty that surrounds us. We are abundantly blessed and therefore celebrate a holiday to highlight our uniqueness and diversity and as a reminder of our responsibility to act as faithful stewards of the wondrous bounty with which we are endowed. Happy Cascadia Day!

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2021 U.S. Census Redistricting: Exploring Watershed Based Voting Districts

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2021 U.S. Census Redistricting: Exploring Watershed Based Voting Districts

Every 10 years, the United States completely erases current voting district borders, and creates new ones using census data that has tracked demographic changes over the past ten years.

How these districts are drawn is incredibly important, and in many states, is used as a tool of disenfranchisement, racism, and reinforcing voter disparities. Ensuring a fair voter redistricting process is one of the most important ways to ensure equity, transparency and accountability in our democratic institutions. This process is currently underway, and voting commissions are being formed to explore the best way to redraw these districts.

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Want to get involved? Join our next organizers orientation Tuesday, March 2nd at 6pm

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Want to get involved? Join our next organizers orientation Tuesday, March 2nd at 6pm

Interested in being a part of Cascadia and the Cascadia movement? Join a Cascadia Department of Bioregion organizers meeting where we discuss the basics, talk about how people want to be involved, and then plug people in. No committment needed. Hop on, check it out. Ask questions. See if it’s a good fit.

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Share Your Cascadia! Link to Google Form

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Share Your Cascadia! Link to Google Form

How can we amplify your work? We are always so inspired by everyone who reaches out, and who is getting active in their communities for a better bioregion, and a better planet. Have a thought, idea, project or something amazing to share? We'd love to hear about it, connect and amplify.

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Cascadia Open Education Summit coming up in British Columbia and online, April 27-29

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Regional Influence. Global Impact.

The Cascadia Open Education Summit is a unique three-day, internationally attended event where thought leaders come together to share groundbreaking ideas, research, and best practices for using open educational resources (OER). Their delegates include government officials, faculty, academic administrators and leaders, educational developers and technologists, librarians, instructional designers, student support staff, and students.

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The 8th annual Summit will be digital and will be a mix of live and pre-recorded sessions delivered through the virtual platform provider, EventMobi. The event follows on the 2019 Cascadia Open Education Summit which took place in Vancouver, B.C. on April 17 & 18, 2019, co-hosted by Lumen Learning, Open Oregon Educational Resources, and the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC).

Cascadia Open Education Summit welcomed people engaged in higher ed-focused open education initiatives, including students, faculty, librarians, instructional technologists, administrators, and other campus leaders.

For More Information, Check Out:

Https://Cascadia.Bccampus.Ca/

Department of Bioregion to present at the first Washington State Climate Assembly

Department of Bioregion to present at the first Washington State Climate Assembly

We are excited that the Department of Bioregion is presenting “Fighting Climate Change Must Be Bioregional” as part of the 10-1pm learning session, Saturday January 23rd, 2020 as part of the first ever Washington Climate Assembly.

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Join the Cascadia Election Response Network

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When we organize, we win.

Since November 3rd, we have had more than 1200 people sign up to join our Cascadia Election Response Network. More than just about any one candidate or election, we see this as a pivotal moment in history when we must start preparing networks of mutual aid, local resilience, training and preparation for times of emergency, and if ever needed, civil disobedience. Be it an emergency, man made or natural, or fighting against the rising tide of fascism, climate change, economic inequity, systemic oppression or misinformation, we will be ready.

These types of networks don’t just happen. Historically, it is often the result of serious training. Time and again, we have demonstrated the power that unified, nonviolent, mass-action can have in the face of illegitimate regimes seeking to subvert the will of the people.

Join our Slack Channel

https://join.slack.com/t/deptofbioregion/shared_invite/zt-e3076d36-0fT9xS0pkBtuU7r82XGPIw

When you join, use the channel browser on the left hand hand side to find your local neighborhood group, or to request one if it already hasn’t been found. Join our resiliency network, and use this as a space to plug your own groups and resources you find important that you feel are bioregional, local and ethical.




We Demand Free and Fair Elections - a Joint Statement by the California National Party, Decent Fed Project, Cascadia Department of Bioregion and New England Independence Campaign

We Demand Free and Fair Elections - a Joint Statement by the California National Party, Decent Fed Project, Cascadia Department of Bioregion and New England Independence Campaign

We demand free and fair elections. A joint statement by the California National Party, Cascadia Department of Bioregion, Decentralize the Fed Project, and New England Independence Campaign.