Community leaders, regenerative practitioners, and change makers in landscapes across Cascadia have the opportunity to host a Community Invitation—a short, one-day event designed to engage with the local community, in order to begin the work of identifying the projects and people who would like to work with Regenerate Cascadia moving forward. Eugene is doing that this weekend, November 16th, 2024.
Part of Regenerate Cascadia’s vision is to support a mycelial network of Bioregional Regeneration Teams in every watershed, that can connect, visualize, and support regenerative work already happening in that landscape. Thus, identifying local landscape core design challenges, identifying portfolios of projects that are part of a long-term and whole system vision for what regeneration means in that place, – all whilst weaving relationships that help to bridge existing silos, has been identified as the support needed for a bioregional regeneration strategy that makes it possible to achieve these goals. Additionally, in the backend, Regenerate Cascadia is working to connect these efforts as part of a coherent bioregional vision and to create a bioregional financing facility tied to local funding ecosystems that are part of the bioregional learning process, in order to flow funding into the landscape.
On Saturday, November 16, Brandon Letsinger and Clare Attwell from Regenerate Cascadia will introduce local community groups from Eugene, Oregon, to the support processes Regenerate Cascadia is developing in order to facilitate effective place based organization. This will include an introduction to the concept of Bioregional Financing Facilities, as well as a more in-depth discussion on the need to develop local funding ecosystems alongside the community processes that will involve bioregional mapping and developing story of place. (learn more here – regeneratecascadia.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCMUxRv0dkE)
Brandon and Clare will present for about 40 minutes.
Willamette Valley organizations (listed below) will then discuss the possibilities this might present for the local Willamette Valley watershed.
Themes to be discussed:
Round 1) At the highest level, what do you do and what do you need from others
Round 2) What synergies do you see?
Round 3) What could we do if 10 million dollars were invested into the south Willamette Valley
regeneration?
Round 4) What do we need to do to be able to utilize that kind of investment equitably?
Invited discussants include:
• Lost Valley Education Center
• Center for Rural Living/COAD
• Hummingbird Wholesale
• Growers Market Building
• Willamette Farm and Food
• Willamette River Keepers
• Seed Guild and Permaculture Guild
• Community Driven Transition
• ThePivot.Earth
For more information, please email clarestrawn@gmail.com
