Who We Are

Sustainable Cascadia is a bioregional initiative to achieve sustainability in one generation. Sustainable Cascadia stewards a collaborative process of change among the bioregional hubs over several years where we share strategies, leverage resources, plan and implement actions, learn, and share what's working.

Sustainable Cascadia invites an alliance of cities, communities and organizations to co-create an ongoing action agenda to address the critical sustainability issue most affecting our common future. We are priveledged to share a common region of the web of life – the Cascadia Bioregion. Our local initiatives and solutions serve as models that easily travel and are implemented in other cities/surrounding areas. Sustainable Cascadia offers a series of Cascadia Convergence events. These "World's Fairs on sustainability" recognize cities that are already leaders by inviting them to host an event, starting with Seattle in October 2007.

Each year, the Cascadia Convergence will identify 1-2 key issues that need to be acted upon now, and develop the best collective strategy for doing so. Sustainable Cascadia supports the ongoing action agenda by inviting a new city to host the next event and planning process. This encourages local hubs to offer their own distinct competence and issue focus, weaving over time the multiple issue threads of an interconnected sustainability agenda.

Over time, with repeated annual cycles of planning, convening, and implementing solutions, we will catalyze critical shifts in our rate of progress and help more and more people adopt a cultural ethos of sustainability. We are at a time of critical mass, when sustainability values, ideas and products can virally spread through the mainstream culture. The big dream of Sustainable Cascadia is to spur a 2nd Renaissance that regenerates society and the natural world.