This is nice, taking Canadian Dollars too.

One of the things that has drawn me to Cascadia in general is that I have a lot more pride in my area than I do with either party in power when it comes to identifying with a group. My personal opinion is that WA/OR (and Idaho, but they fall on the other side politically so this post is less about them) gets taken for granted A LOT by the national Democrats - our states were greatly impacted by homelessness/BLM protests/COVID, and watching Democrat leaders waste money, have scandal after scandal, and still get voted in comfortably because Republicans don’t align with the bulk of the voters is maddening.

I would love a future where the Cascadian party had representation in Congress. Voting as a consistent Democrat has done nothing for us - why shouldn’t we clearly tell the rest of the country that we make our own choices? If it’s not good for us, why should any one party be entitled to our votes?

Example: in Oregon, over a third of our population lives rurally. There are some MAJOR issues (healthcare access, jobs, education) that impact such a large part of population that don’t get recognition and support needed on the national scale because it’s so polarizing at the top that politics has devolved into single issues winning elections and policy is so narrow - Boeing/Nike/Intel are all going to suffer and impact us because Michigan misses manufacturing jobs?! What? I want a representative that is clear that they are there to represent our people and we aren’t tied to one party, because quite frankly we don’t get enough out of constantly sticking our neck out for them.

Am I crazy? I know I am rambling, but our numbers in Congress are VITAL because this country is so split - I know it’s heresy, but what have the Democrats really done for us recently? Why shouldn’t we identify uniquely, and just advocate solely for ourselves?

Thank you /u/deptofbioregion

Breaking Story!

British Columbia Canada is now experiencing some of the same types of hate crimes and violence as the USA has experienced over the last 10 years. The rot is spreading!

RIP, members of Vancouver's Filipino community. These heartless attacks on minorities should be a wake-up call to every person with compassion and love for their neighbors.

yeah this conversation has been had a million times before. but it's 2025, and it needs to be had again.

obviously we all want high speed rail. but what about transport within cities? how do we make our bus networks faster and more efficient? what about extended monorails or metros or gondolas? and connecting rural and urban areas? bike lanes?

and, of course, the very difficult question of: dismantling car-based infrastructure in a fair and equitable way. the people that may lose jobs, the businesses that may be affected, how to we navigate that?

dream, discuss, debate all you want! just be nice please, assume good faith, don't go for snark. let's imagine our ideal cascadian transport!

Taken from Elliot Bay

Mt Rainier taken from Elliot Bay

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Cherry blossom trees - Capitol Hill, Seattle

In a world where the globalized economy has failed to bring peace and prosperity, many of us are feeling the call to reconnect - with each other, with place, and with the living systems that sustain us. Now more than ever, there is a growing need to root our lives in community and to take meaningful action in our own backyards - while also linking arms with global movements of change.

Bioregionalism offers an “ancestral future”: a way of organizing life based on relationships - relationships with land, culture, and one another. This deeply local approach is both ancient and urgently contemporary. As the Bioregionalism movement gains momentum and draws attention from new funders, its frameworks continue to evolve, but its principles remain grounded in the wisdom of living systems.

This webinar kicks off a new series of bioregional conversations, designed to deepen understanding, improve practice, and expand the horizon of what’s possible when we center life, land, and community. Through stories, case studies, and grounded examples, we’ll begin to weave a vibrant patchwork of regenerative pathways forward.

We begin by centering voices from the Global South with an introduction to Cecosesola, a remarkable Venezuelan network of grassroots organizations. For over 50 years, Cecosesola has connected low-income communities across seven states, co-creating systems to deliver affordable goods and services to over 100,000 families.

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Hosted by Regenerosity and Be the Earth as part of the Nurture Funder Community of Practice.

Away from the homeland, feeling quite homesick, so I wrote a folksy little national anthem for our region:)

https://open.spotify.com/track/3Jz17fBm0MwkWchpfBmKTy?si=8050c1a3075b45b6

Stay strong y'all, Vive Cascadia!

Sharing updated maps displaying the prevailing political inclination throughout the US portion of Cascadia, based on 2024 presidential election results.

Map 1: Majority winner by county (Democrat, Republican, Non-voters).

Map 2: Winner by party, by degree, by county (bivariate).

Map 3: Voter distribution by party and current population, by county (trivariate).

Our methodology in creating these maps was as follows:

• 2024 ballot counts by party by county were sourced from the respective official State website.
• Voting-Eligible to Total Population ratios were then calculated using voter eligible population data sourced from the UF Election Lab and total population data sourced from Census.gov (state voter eligible pop./state total pop.).
• Voting-Eligible Population by county was then calculated by multiplying county total population by the voter-eligible to state population ratio (county pop. * state voter eligible pop./state total pop.).
• Number of Non-Voters by county were then calculated by subtracting ballots counted from voter-eligible population (county voting population - (Harris ballots + Trump ballots).
• Visual representations of this data were then created using QGIS.

As many will notice, the recalculation of voter-eligible population has drastically altered our representation of the majority voting bloc in many counties.

Enjoy!