{"title": "Regenerate Cascadia", "logoImg": "bafkreiehu3ubw27uvef6wpj7wtjkisq3ml6k2fkadhgmo6uai3apsvyodu", "website": "https://regeneratecascadia.org", "bannerImg": "bafkreidbxswwb7goo6gtawkhgb3is6vaffcbaptlvdtcdw3icxz72ihfqa", "createdAt": 1729617459661, "credentials": {}, "description": "Building on more than 40 years of organizing from the first ever Cascadia Bioregional Congress held in 1986, Regenerate Cascadia is a social movement and capacity-building program developing a vision and framework to administer a bioregional flow fund and financing facility for Cascadia, a bioregion located along the upper Pacific Rim of North America stretching from Southeast Alaska to Northern California, and as far east as the Yellowstone Caldera. \n\nA central goal of Regenerate Cascadia is to grow capacity cohesively across the scales of landscapes, ecoregions and bioregions—something that currently does not exist locally or globally—as part of a multi-generational strategy for the long-term health of the Cascadia bioregion.\n\nRegenerate Cascadia was formed by Brandon Letsinger and Clare Attwell in April 2023 during the first ever Salmon Nation Edge Prize, where their vision to activate a bioregional movement in Cascadia won the Edge Prize for Innovation in Systems and Governance. After months of planning with 100+ local community organizers on both sides of the Canada-US border, we partnered with the Design School for Regenerating Earth to co-facilitate a month-long Bioregional Activation Tour. We traveled to 14 communities around Cascadia during October 2023, hosting presentations that asked, “How do we regenerate the Cascadia bioregion?”. We met with more than 1000 individuals, including Indigenous knowledge keepers, regenerative leaders, groups, community artists, and elders across Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, through presentations, workshops, site visits, and strategy sessions. This was followed by an online summit that brought together 50+ presentations in a ‘Festival of What Works’, and concluded with an Open Space Unconference from November 3-12, 2023, where participants cocreated working groups for Regenerate Cascadia. The vision resonated strongly with many communities across the bioregion.\n\nNow, working with regeneration teams anchoring landscape hubs, bioregional guilds, and regenerative projects, our goal is to develop, co-design, and co-create frameworks that can provide a viable and positive alternative to these existing power structures.\n\nTo accomplish these goals, we believe in bioregionalism, a grassroots approach to ecology that uses natural boundaries to reinforce sustainability, community self-determination, and regional self-reliance.\n\nWe need your help to connect these on-the-ground regenerative organizers, projects, and communities with the power and tools of Web3 to help us break down arbitrary boundaries and borders, create bioregional maps, identify layers of stewardship in need of protecting, visualize, connect, and support portfolio's of projects in the context of an entire landscape in way we can directly fund and derisk, as well as creating community empowered tools for measurement, reporting and verification built through community consent and data sovereignty, and that can move money across current borders that only divide ecosystems, reinforce systematic inequity and racism, and are not representative of people, ecosystem or place.\n\nWe deeply believe in the founding belief of Celo and Ethereum, as well as GitCoin, in that \"Web3 represents an internet where users have more control over their data, identity, and digital assets. This means no central authority controls the network, allowing for more transparency, security, and ownership. Web3 empowers individuals by giving them full control over their digital assets (like cryptocurrencies and NFTs) and how they interact with online services, making it a key shift towards a more open, user-owned internet. In short, Web3 is about returning power to the users—creating a more equitable digital world where your data and assets are yours to manage and control.\"\n\nThis first funding round will assist our watershed working groups in more than a dozen locations as they get off the ground, for whom even a little bit of extra funding can go an incredibly long way, and will be a practice for us to begin to come together and practice new forms of shared governance and participatory budgeting processes.\n\nThank you everyone for having us here. Now, let's make it happen. ✊🌲!\n", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectTwitter": "cascadiadept"}