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Chronological media list for the Cascadia bioregion and movement. Reverse chronological. Entry format: Title – Outlet – Date, followed by a short description. Titles link to sources where available.

2026

Cascadia shines for the World Cup – Cascadia Journal – Jun 25, 2026. Essay framing Seattle and Vancouver’s hosting of 2026 FIFA World Cup matches as a global showcase for Cascadia, citing Sports Illustrated ranking Vancouver and Seattle the top two host cities and linking the tournament to the CONIFA Cascadia team and bioregional identity.
Independent Cascadia? Questions to be Asked, Reasons to be Skeptical – CounterPunch – Jun 23, 2026. Patrick Mazza essay responding to the New York Times Cascadia coverage, arguing that while independence could theoretically benefit the Pacific Northwest it is currently unachievable and could undermine broader progressive coalitions. Syndicated via Radio Free and other aggregators.
Informe: Crece separatismo en EEUU y Canadá; Trump implicado – HispanTV – Jun 15, 2026. Spanish-language report on growing separatism in the United States and Canada featuring Seattle-based Cascadia Democratic Action preparing referendum campaigns in Washington and Oregon toward an ecological nation by 2028.
¿Estados Desunidos?: Crece una ola separatista que sacude a varios estados – RT en Español – Jun 14, 2026. Spanish-language roundup of US separatist movements describing Cascadia as a proposed ecological and progressive nation from northern California through Oregon and Washington into British Columbia, with supporters aiming for 2028 referendums.
Independent Cascadia? Greater Idaho? Disunited states look toward divorce – The New York Times – Jun 13, 2026. Anna Griffin feature profiling Cascadia Democratic Action and US independence movements, opening at a Cascadia Day poetry event in Seattle and contrasting the progressive Cascadia push with the Greater Idaho border movement. Quotes Andrew Engelson, political scientist Ryan Griffiths, Hugh Spitzer, and Greater Idaho’s Matt McCaw. Syndicated by the Philadelphia Inquirer, San Juan Daily Star, and GV Wire.
Separation Anxiety – Eugene Weekly – May 28, 2026. Eve Weston feature on Cascadia Democratic Action’s nonviolent push toward autonomy and possible secession votes by 2028 for an independent bioregion of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Quotes organizer Andrew Engelson and retired UW law professor Hugh Spitzer, and cites the roughly $36 billion the region sends annually to federal coffers.
Portland leaders push Oregon to back Cascadia high-speed rail as economic strategy – KPTV – May 15, 2026. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson, the Portland Metro Chamber, and a coalition of business and community leaders urged the Oregon Prosperity Council to make Cascadia high-speed rail a cornerstone of the state’s long-term economic development strategy, citing $55 million in existing planning funds.
Ready to start your own PNW nation? Vermillion hosts Cascadia Day Poetry Explosion – Capitol Hill Seattle Blog – May 2026. Preview of a Cascadia Day poetry event at Vermillion in Seattle tied to Cascadia Democratic Action’s organizing, the gathering later described in the New York Times profile of the movement.
2026 FIFA World Cup framed as a Cascadia event (Seattle and Vancouver) – Cascadia Daily News / Travel and Tour World – May 6, 2026. With Seattle and Vancouver BC jointly hosting 13 matches of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in June and July 2026, regional media and tourism coverage framed the corridor explicitly as Cascadia, including a Cascadia Daily News guide to World Cup festivities and trade coverage of cross-border cooperation between the two host cities.
Cascadia and San Andreas linked-rupture study (Geosphere) – Geosphere / Oregon State University / ScienceDaily – May 2, 2026. An Oregon State University team led by marine geologist Chris Goldfinger reported deep-sea sediment core evidence that the Cascadia Subduction Zone and the northern San Andreas fault have ruptured within minutes to hours of each other at least three times in the past 1,500 years, most recently in 1700. Wide spring 2026 coverage framed the finding as a possible simultaneous multi-city disaster scenario from San Francisco to Vancouver.
MÄS chef Josh Dorcak in the James Beard Awards (2024-2026) – Ashland News / Rogue Valley Times – 2024-2026. Josh Dorcak of MÄS, the Ashland, Oregon restaurant serving self-described Cascadian cuisine, has recurred in James Beard Award coverage for Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific, named a semifinalist in 2024 and advancing to finalist, and named a 2026 finalist for a third consecutive finalist year, keeping his Cascadian cuisine in national awards coverage. Bridgetown Bites listed the full Oregon finalist slate on Mar 31, 2026.
11% of Northwest Residents Live in Fire Country; 100% Pay the Price – Sightline Institute – Feb 26, 2026. Installment of Sightline’s Envisioning Cascadia’s Wildfire Future series framing wildfire and smoke seasons as a Cascadia-wide condition.
Cascadia movement has roots in the past, but does B.C. separatism have a future? – The Canadian Press – Feb 8, 2026. Wolfgang Depner feature tracing the Cascadia movement’s history and assessing BC separatism’s prospects, quoting former Cascadia Party of British Columbia candidate Cory Pahl and citing a January 2026 Pollara Strategic Insights poll finding 11 percent of British Columbians likely to support secession. Syndicated across the Times Colonist, National Observer, CFJC Today, Coast Reporter, and other Canadian outlets.
The Cascadia Bioregion: Organizations and Resources in the Pacific Northwest – Resilience.org – Jan 22, 2026. Survey article cataloguing organizations and resources of the Cascadia bioregional movement in the Pacific Northwest.
Conservation groups challenge BLM’s 42 Divide logging plan in western Oregon – Cascadia Wildlands – Jan 21, 2026. Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wild, Umpqua Watersheds, and Crag Law Center sued the BLM over the 42 Divide Forest Management Plan near Camas Valley in Douglas County, arguing logging in late-successional reserves violates federal law and increases fire hazard in habitat for spotted owls, marbled murrelets, and coho salmon.
Turtle Island Bioregional Congress 11 (TIBC11) – Turtle Island Bioregional Congress / Cascadia Department of Bioregion – Sep 14-20, 2026. The eleventh Turtle Island Bioregional Congress, scheduled for September 14 to 20, 2026 near Port Townsend, Washington on S’Klallam and Coast Salish lands. It revives a continental gathering tradition that held ten congresses between 1984 and 2009 and is returning for the first time in over a decade, hosted this time in the Cascadia bioregion. Framed as a living experiment in bioregional self-governance and a cohering point for the renewed bioregional movement.

2025

Interview: David McCloskey, founder of the Cascadia Institute – Posit – Dec 8, 2025. Email interview with David McCloskey, the retired Seattle University professor who named and mapped the Cascadia bioregion. McCloskey discusses bioregional boundaries as emergent and self-defined, the physical geography of Cascadia from coast to continental divide, and the movement’s intersection with new technologies and bioregional finance. One of the most substantive recent profiles of the “father of Cascadia.”
Inside Bioregionalism’s Tech-Driven Revival – NOEMA Magazine – Dec 4, 2025. Doug Bierend feature on the resurgence of bioregionalism and its embrace of finance and technology, covering the BioFi Project and Bioregional Financing Facilities, Regenerate Cascadia (co-founded by Brandon Letsinger, Clare Attwell, and Taya Seidler), Salmon Returns led by Cheryl Chen, and the Kwiakah First Nation’s Kwaxala and Centree token.
WSDOT Cascadia High-Speed Rail Corridor Identification and Development Program report – WSDOT – Dec 2025. Agency report to the legislature summarizing Corridor ID progress under the $49.7 million grant, following a June 2025 project status update; the 2026 phase begins options analysis for preliminary routes and service against the draft purpose and need statement.
Cascadia Forges Ahead on High-Speed Rail Despite Headwinds – The Urbanist – Nov 10, 2025. Report on the Cascadia high-speed rail program continuing despite Trump administration cuts to transit grants and tariffs complicating cross-border collaboration with British Columbia.
British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon sign agreement to strengthen partnership across Cascadia – Shoreline Area News / BC Government – Oct 30, 2025. Report on the Memorandum of Reaffirmation signed by BC Premier David Eby, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson, and Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek at the Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference, renewing the 2016 and 2018 BC-Washington MOUs and formally adding Oregon for the first time. Covers innovation, housing, sustainability, high-speed rail, and economic development, signed amid the US-Canada tariff war.
Slowly but surely, high-speed rail backers believe Cascadia mega-project will become a reality – GeekWire – Oct 30, 2025. Former US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told the Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference that attendees likely will not live to ride the line but urged starting now; WSDOT’s timeline targets 2028 for the service development plan.
Cascadia Innovation Corridor Unveils Bold Vision for Global AI Leadership – Cascadia Innovation Corridor – Oct 28, 2025. The tenth anniversary conference in Seattle (Oct 28-29, 2025) set an agenda around AI partnership, the housing crisis, talent pipeline, and energy infrastructure for the megaregion.
Cascadia Innovation Corridor (annual conferences 2018-2025) – Cascadia Innovation Corridor / Cascadia Department of Bioregion – Oct 28, 2025. The corridor initiative has continued annual binational conferences since 2016, including the third in Vancouver Oct 9-10, 2018, the fifth Nov 16-17, 2021 in Vancouver, the eighth on housing Oct 28-29, 2024 in Seattle, and the 2025 conference Oct 28-29, 2025 at the Sheraton Grand Seattle featuring the new Cascadia on the Move high-speed rail convening backed by $54.5 million in federal and state planning funds. In September 2025 the Cascadia Department of Bioregion published a response urging the corridor to embed bioregional, place-based values, arguing innovation must serve life, not just markets.
The ‘enormous barrier’ that threatens economic growth in the Pacific Northwest – GeekWire – Oct 2025. At the Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference in Seattle, Brad Smith cited housing costs as a top threat to the megaregion, noting Vancouver’s cost-to-income ratio is among the worst in the world and Seattle home prices relative to wages have doubled in 15 years.
Cherry Point Amendments face first real test – Cascadia Daily News – Oct 12, 2025. Report on the first substantive test of Whatcom County’s 2021 Cherry Point Amendments, the landmark local ban on new fossil fuel infrastructure that anchors the Thin Green Line’s legal legacy.
Whitecaps take Cascadia Cup in draw with Sounders – Prost International – Sep 28, 2025. Vancouver secured the 2025 Cascadia Cup with a 2-2 draw against Seattle at Lumen Field on Sep 27, 2025, a record eighth title for the Whitecaps in the supporter-created competition.
Cascadia and soft secession – Cascadia Journal – Sep 26, 2025. Andrew Engelson essay describing “soft secession”: blue West Coast states testing the limits of autonomy through regional health alliances, sanctuary laws, and financial reserves, and framing this as a path for Cascadia.
How Cascadia Can Maintain Its Heat Pump Momentum – Sightline Institute – Sep 2, 2025. Analysis of cooling and heat-pump adoption across Cascadia as a continuing adaptation response to the region’s hotter, drier summers. Follow-on to Sightline’s 2022 heat pump analysis, with explicit Cascadia framing.
A Decade of Rediscovery: Cascadia Art Museum’s Tenth Anniversary – Cascadia Art Museum / My Edmonds News – Aug 27, 2025. Tenth anniversary exhibition at Cascadia Art Museum, Edmonds WA, Aug 27 to Nov 23, 2025. Presented artworks donated or promised to the permanent collection in painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, ceramics, and design, alongside a Walker Gallery retrospective of ten years of exhibition posters documenting the museum’s recovery of the region’s lost art history.
Bioregioning Is Our Future – Resilience.org – Aug 27, 2025. Essay arguing that bioregioning, the active practice of organizing life around bioregions, is central to a regenerative future, part of a wave of 2025 movement writing on the topic.
Concert Review: Agalloch (reunion shows) – Spectrum Culture / New Noise Magazine – Aug 18, 2025. Coverage of Portland Cascadian black metal pioneers Agalloch returning to the stage in 2025 after reforming in 2023, including the Aug 16, 2025 Revolution Hall performance, with a companion New Noise gallery of the Crystal Ballroom reunion show. The band, formed in 1995, blends black metal, neofolk, and post-rock; its live shows are staged with wood, incense, and Pacific Northwest imagery.
Cascadia International Wine Competition (2019-2025 continuations) – Great Northwest Wine – 2019-2025. The Cascadia International Wine Competition, judging wines from Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, Idaho, and Montana, has continued annually since its founding editions. Best of Show winners included Coyote Canyon Winery of Prosser, Washington (2019), Wild Goose Vineyards of British Columbia (2020), Boise-area Telaya Wine Co. (2021), Idaho’s 3100 Cellars with the first sparkling wine ever to take the top award (2022), and Veer Wine Project of Idaho for a third straight Idaho win (2023). In 2025 the Maryhill Winery 2022 Proprietor’s Reserve Grenache was voted No. 1 wine at the 13th annual competition at the Walter Clore Wine and Culinary Center in Prosser, the first time in five years the top wine was not from Idaho, with Telaya Wine Co. taking best Cabernet Sauvignon.
Bioregionalism: A Return to Source – Center for Earth Ethics – Aug 6, 2025. Essay tracing bioregionalism’s roots and its contemporary revival as a framework for reconnecting people to place and ecological systems.
Thorns 4-2 over Reign in 43rd NWSL Cascadia derby – Prost International – Aug 11, 2025. Portland’s 4-2 win over Seattle in the 43rd NWSL Cascadia Derby before 21,811 fans at Providence Park in near 100-degree heat, the biggest NWSL crowd of the 2025 season.
“The Really Big One” tenth anniversary retrospectives – Willamette Week – Jul 14, 2025. Interview with Kathryn Schulz on the tenth anniversary of her Pulitzer Prize-winning 2015 New Yorker article “The Really Big One,” assessing a mixed decade of Pacific Northwest preparedness: a stalled Burnside Bridge replacement and ended mandatory URM retrofits in Portland, but a passed 2025 Portland schools seismic bond. Other outlets published similar ten-years-later assessments in July 2025.
L’ambassadeur américain explique pourquoi Trump trouve le Canada « désagréable » – La Presse Canadienne via Le Devoir, La Presse, Radio-Canada, L’actualité, Acadie Nouvelle – Jul 21, 2025. French-language Canadian Press story on US ambassador Pete Hoekstra’s remarks at the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region summit in Bellevue amid the 2025 tariff tensions. Hoekstra posted that he had spoken about “l’importance du corridor de la Cascadie pour les États-Unis et le Canada,” putting the Cascadia corridor framing into wide French-Canadian circulation.
Cascadia BioFi Conference – Regenerate Cascadia – May 16, 2025. Inaugural bioregional finance conference held May 16-18, 2025 at the Georgetown Steam Plant in Seattle’s Duwamish River Valley, convened by Regenerate Cascadia and partners. More than 250 organizers, funders, artists, and technologists gathered to co-create pathways for bioregional funding ecosystems in Cascadia, including an introduction to Regenerate Cascadia’s Bioregional Financing Facility and models such as Salmon Returns and Kinship Earth flow funding. Included a Cascadia Day BBQ, elders panel, and poetry reading on May 17.
Cascadia could be an economic powerhouse – The Seattle Times – May 2, 2025. Jon Talton business column arguing that an independent or integrated Cascadia of Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia would rank among the world’s top-twenty economies, written against the backdrop of Trump tariffs alienating Canada from the Cascadian economy.
Gary Snyder at 95: birthday retrospectives and Library of America Essential Prose – Library of America / Allen Ginsberg Project – May 8, 2025. For Gary Snyder’s 95th birthday, Library of America published Essential Prose, edited by Jack Shoemaker with an introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson, gathering seventy years of his prose including the foundational bioregional essays. Tributes described Snyder as the poet laureate of deep ecology.
Cascadia earthquake subsidence and flood exposure study (PNAS) – PNAS / Virginia Tech / NBC News – Apr 28, 2025. Study led by Virginia Tech coastal geologist Tina Dura found the next great Cascadia earthquake could drop the coastline by up to 2 meters, roughly doubling flood exposure for residents, structures, and roads, and more than tripling it when combined with sea-level rise. One of the most widely covered Cascadia studies of the period, picked up by NBC News, CNN, and many others.
Earth Day rally in Roseburg against BLM old-growth timber auction – Cascadia Wildlands – Apr 22, 2025. As the BLM auctioned old-growth timber from the Umpqua River watershed on Earth Day, Cascadia Wildlands and Umpqua Watersheds organized a nonviolent rally in Roseburg opposing the sale.
Northwest Masterworks: The Garvey Family Collection (Cascadia Art Museum gift) – Seattle magazine – Mar 20, 2025. Mike and Lynn Garvey gave Cascadia Art Museum more than 75 rare early Northwest paintings, described as the largest private collection of early Northwest paintings ever gifted to a museum. The gift produced the two-part Northwest Masterworks exhibitions and the dedication of the permanent Garvey Family Gallery.
Tilt (novel by Emma Pattee) – Marysue Rucci Books / Simon & Schuster – Mar 25, 2025. Debut novel by Portland writer Emma Pattee following Annie, 37 weeks pregnant, walking across Portland after the Cascadia megaquake strikes while she shops at IKEA. Pattee had seismic engineers and geologists verify the destruction depicted on real streets. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, USA Today bestseller, longlisted for the Carnegie Medal, and named among Time’s 100 must-read books of 2025.
MÄS creator plans 2 new additions to the Ashland culinary landscape – Rogue Valley Times / Mail Tribune – Feb 28, 2025. Josh Dorcak, creator of Cascadian-cuisine restaurant MÄS and izakaya NAMA, announced two new Ashland ventures, the Kando lounge and the Good Juice wine and sake shop, expanding his Cascadian-cuisine footprint. MÄS, built on foraged Pacific Northwest ingredients, had earlier been named by The New York Times one of the 50 best restaurants in the United States in 2022.
Cascadia Digital – Dire Wolf Digital – Feb 19, 2025. Official digital adaptation of the board game Cascadia. Entered Steam Early Access in November 2024 and fully released on Steam, iOS, and Android on Feb 19, 2025, with online crossplay, 15 solo scenarios, challenges, and daily trek modes set in the Pacific Northwest.
YouGov poll: Do Americans and Canadians want California, Oregon, and Washington to join Canada? – YouGov – Feb 14, 2025. National poll conducted after the Trump annexation talk and Elizabeth May’s remarks found 23 percent of Americans and 35 percent of Canadians supported the three Pacific states joining Canada, with support highest in the three states themselves (29 percent) and in British Columbia (43 percent). Ties the question to the longstanding movement to unite the western parts of the two countries.
Hate in the Cascade States: Extremism and Antisemitism in Oregon and Washington – ADL Center on Extremism – Feb 3, 2025. Survey of nearly two years of extremist activity across Oregon and Washington, documenting white supremacist networking including the Active Club scene and anti-government movements. Notable for framing the two states as the “Cascade States.” Documentation of activity the bioregional movement opposes.
325th anniversary of the 1700 Cascadia earthquake – KOIN / Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center – Jan 26, 2025. Jan 26, 2025 marked 325 years since the magnitude 8.7-9.2 Cascadia megathrust earthquake of 1700, drawing regional anniversary features, commemorative programming, and documentary screenings across the Pacific Northwest. Coverage revisited how Japanese tsunami records and Indigenous oral histories fixed the date of the quake.
The Basics of Bioregioning: Three Videos for Your Watch List – CounterPunch – Jan 24, 2025. Article surveying introductory video resources on bioregioning, reflecting the practice’s mainstreaming in the mid-2020s bioregional revival.
Washington joining Canada? Don’t bet your Timbits – Cascadia Daily News – Jan 10, 2025. Annie Todd analysis on Elizabeth May’s provinces offer, quoting her “maybe California would like to be the 11th province” line and situating the moment in the longer history of the Cascadia independence movement.
Canadian lawmaker offers to take Washington, Oregon, California as new provinces – KIRO 7 – Jan 2025. Coverage of Elizabeth May’s offer to accept Washington, Oregon, and California as Canadian provinces as a rejoinder to Trump’s annexation talk. Syndicated to MyNorthwest and Yahoo News.
Canadian leader proposes Oregon, Washington become provinces amid Trump threats – KOIN – Jan 2025. Report on Elizabeth May’s proposal that Oregon and Washington become Canadian provinces amid Trump’s 51st state rhetoric.
Canadian Politician Elizabeth May Shades Trump With New Plan to Take Three U.S. States – The Daily Beast – Jan 2025. National coverage of Elizabeth May’s counter-offer to Trump, proposing California, Oregon, and Washington join Canada.
Canadian politician suggests Oregon join Canada – Central Oregon Daily – Jan 2025. Coverage of Elizabeth May’s invitation for Oregon to become a Canadian province amid Trump annexation threats.
Elizabeth May claps back at Trump: offers making California 11th province – CHEK News – Jan 2025. Victoria report on Green Party leader Elizabeth May’s early January 2025 response to Donald Trump’s 51st state remarks, inviting Washington, Oregon, and California to join Canada instead and citing universal health care, abortion access, and gun laws. Widely read as a mainstream airing of the Cascadia idea.
Elizabeth May invites Washington, Oregon, and California to join Canada – KIRO 7 / Central Oregon Daily / Cascadia Daily News – Jan 3, 2025. In a Jan 3, 2025 press conference responding to Trump’s 51st state remarks, Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May jokingly offered to accept Washington, Oregon, and California as Canadian provinces, an exchange widely covered as an echo of the Cascadia idea.
Canada or Cascadia? British Columbians divided on identity – Business in Vancouver / Glacier Media – Jan 2025 (survey Jan 10-12, 2025). Mario Canseco column on a Research Co. survey of 800 BC adults. Sixty percent said they have more in common with Seattle and Portland than with Toronto or Montreal, 28 percent thought BC would be better off as its own country, and 62 percent still identified as Canadians first. Ran on Castanet, Richmond News, Squamish Chief, and other Glacier titles.
Oregon executive order on seismic building safety (Gov. Kotek) – KOIN – 2025. Ahead of the 325th anniversary of the 1700 Cascadia earthquake, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed an executive order on building safety aimed at improving state seismic resilience for a Cascadia Subduction Zone event.
Festival Review: Cascadian Midsummer Festival 2025 in Pe Ell, WA – New Noise Magazine – 2025. Photo-heavy festival review of the Cascadian Midsummer solstice festival at Red Hawk Avalon in Pe Ell, Washington, covering its black metal and dark folk lineup and Cascadian animist framing.
Cascadia NW Arts & Music Festival Celebrates 10 Years with New Nonprofit Status and Scenic Venue – Allied Arts – 2025. Preview of the festival’s tenth annual edition (Jun 20-22, 2025) at Darrington Bluegrass Music Park, noting its transition to nonprofit status under the Department of Bioregion and its village model including Technosis, Mythica, Ecotopia, and Q Camp.
Bioregioning: the defining practice of regenerative cultures – Resilience.org – Sep 25, 2025. Essay framing bioregioning as the defining practice of regenerative cultures, continuing the 2025 series of movement commentary on bioregional practice.

2024

WSDOT Wins $50 Million Grant for Cascadia High-Speed Rail Planning – The Urbanist – Dec 19, 2024. The Federal Railroad Administration awarded WSDOT $49.7 million through the Corridor ID program to develop a service development plan, joined by $5.5 million in Washington state match for a total of about $55.2 million, secured in the final weeks of the Biden administration.
Cascadia High-Speed Rail project receives $55M for planning – Cascadia Daily News – Dec 23, 2024. Bellingham-area coverage of the combined $55.2 million federal and state planning package, including implications for potential intermediate stops such as Bellingham.
$49.7 million federal grant will fund Cascadia high-speed rail line study – KGW / KING 5 – Dec 2024. Broadcast coverage of the FRA grant funding the next phase of Cascadia high-speed rail planning across Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia.
Cascadia HSR: $55.2MM for Planning – Railway Age – Dec 2024. Trade press coverage of the FRA award and state match funding the Cascadia service development plan (also covered by Trains News Wire, Planetizen, and Urbanize Seattle the same month).
High-Speed Rail Plan Pushed For Pacific Northwest – Newsweek – Nov 20, 2024. Microsoft President Brad Smith advocated for Portland-to-Vancouver high-speed rail at the Cascadia Innovation Corridor’s Housing for Tomorrow’s Cascadia conference (Portland, Nov 18-19, 2024), framing rail as a response to the region’s housing affordability crisis.
RECAP: Portland Timbers claim Cascadia Cup with 1-1 draw against Seattle Sounders FC – Timbers.com – Oct 19, 2024. Portland clinched the 2024 Cascadia Cup with a 1-1 draw at Lumen Field after all three Cascadia clubs finished level on 8 points; the Timbers won on the goals-scored tiebreaker for their sixth title.
Earth Regeneration Fund (Regenerate Cascadia) – Regenerate Cascadia – Oct 7, 2024. A funding vehicle launched by Regenerate Cascadia to channel philanthropic and investment capital to decentralized, place-based regeneration projects across the Cascadia bioregion, part of its bioregional finance work connected to the broader BioFi movement.
Conservation groups sue BLM over Blue and Gold old-growth logging project – Oregon Wild / Cascadia Wildlands – Sep 2024. Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wild, and allied groups filed suit against the Bureau of Land Management over the Blue and Gold logging project targeting older forests in the Oregon Coast Range.
Cascadia Bioregional Summit (2024) – Cascadia Department of Bioregion – Sep to Nov 2024. The first-ever Cascadia bioregional summit, a hybrid gathering held over roughly ten days throughout Salmon Nation in fall 2024. The opening gathering in September 2024 featured Skagit Elder Jay Bowen, with a keynote by Joe Brewer on Nov 4 and a Cascadia UnConference on Nov 10 and 11. It marked the formal launch of the Regenerate Cascadia program.
Cascadia and the Global Resurgence of Bioregional Activism – Bollier.org / Frontiers of Commoning – Sep 1, 2024. David Bollier blog and Frontiers of Commoning podcast (episode 54) essay on the bioregional renaissance centered on Cascadia, featuring Brandon Letsinger of CascadiaNow! and the Cascadia Department of Bioregion, Joe Brewer, and Isabel Carlisle of the Bioregional Learning Centre UK. Discusses bioregional mapping, including the Islands in the Salish Sea community atlas.
Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet (book) – The BioFi Project / Dark Matter Labs / Buckminster Fuller Institute – Jun 20, 2024. Book co-authored by Samantha Power (The BioFi Project) and Leon Seefeld (Dark Matter Labs), published on the June 2024 solstice. It presents the design, governance, and capitalization of Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs), with templates for a Bioregional Trust, Venture Studio, Investment Company, and Bank, plus twelve global case studies. Became an international bestseller and was translated into Spanish.
Cascadia Center for Sustainable Design and Construction (Bullitt Center): Bullitt Foundation sunset – Bullitt Foundation / Seattle Times – 2024. The Bullitt Foundation, builder of the Bullitt Center, announced in June 2019 that it would sunset its grantmaking, and spent down its endowment by April 2024 after granting more than $200 million since 1992 under Earth Day organizer Denis Hayes. The Bullitt Center continues as a gift to the Pacific Northwest environmental community, leasing below-market office space to regional environmental groups in perpetuity.
Ninth Circuit blocks old-growth clearcut at Benson Ridge in Elliott State Forest – Cascadia Wildlands / Missoula Current – Jun 26, 2024. The Ninth Circuit affirmed an injunction stopping Scott Timber Company from clearcutting the 355-acre Benson Ridge parcel in Oregon’s Elliott State Forest, finding the logging would harm threatened marbled murrelets; Cascadia Wildlands, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Bird Alliance of Oregon called it the first ESA accountability ruling against a private timber company in Oregon.
Cascadia fault imaging study (CASIE21, Science Advances) – Science Advances / Columbia Climate School / KOIN – Jun 7, 2024. A study led by Suzanne Carbotte of Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory produced the first comprehensive subsurface map of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, using about 5,500 km of seismic reflection data from the 2021 CASIE21 cruise. It found the megathrust is divided into at least four segments, with a flat smooth segment off Washington posing elevated hazard. Wide national and regional coverage.
Cascadia ultra high-speed rail project inches forward – The Center Square – May 2024. Status report on the Corridor ID planning phase and the pending application for a larger federal service development grant.
Kwaxala / Kwiakah First Nation bioregional finance – Kwaxala / Kwiakah First Nation – May 2024. The Kwiakah First Nation in British Columbia announced the M̓ac̓inuxʷ Special Forest Management Area, roughly 140,000 acres secured by converting logging rights from extraction to regeneration. Its Kwaxala initiative plans an eco-credit cryptocurrency token called Centree, issued for every 100 acres protected, to release upfront capital for regenerative development. Cited as a flagship example of the bioregional finance movement.
PREVIEW: Cascadia Rivalry (WPSL) – Women’s Premier Soccer League – May 17, 2024. The WPSL previewed the first WPSL edition of the Cascadia Rivalry after Portland Thorns FC II and Seattle Reign FC II joined the league’s Northwest Conference for 2024, with matches on May 19 and May 25, 2024. The league called Cascadia one of the best rivalries in women’s sports.
Fallout Cascadia, DLC-Sized Expansion Mod for Fallout 4, Gets New Showcase Trailer – DSOGaming – Apr 10, 2024. The Seattle-set Fallout Cascadia mod released a Spring 2024 environmental showcase trailer, its first significant public update in nearly six years, with no release date announced; similar coverage ran at Wccftech.
The Quiet Resilience of the Black IPA – All About Beer – Feb 22, 2024. Em Sauter and Don Tse report that the black IPA, also called Cascadian dark ale, fell to relative obscurity in the 2020s but survives at breweries including Oregon Coast newcomer Beachcrest Brewing.
Cascadia 9.0 (video game) – Seattle Met – Feb 2024. Earthquake-preparedness video game built around a magnitude 9.0 Cascadia Subduction Zone scenario, profiled by Seattle Met in “Can a Video Game Prepare Us for the Big One?” The project uses gameplay to rehearse disaster response decisions for Pacific Northwest residents.
Rétroviseur: vive la Cascadie… libre! – L’actualité – Feb 11, 2024. L’actualité’s weekly Rétroviseur archive feature republished and recontextualized the 2009 “Bienvenue en Cascadie” report on the Cascadia idea for contemporary readers, in the period of renewed US-Canada annexation discourse.
Rencontres internationales du biorégionalisme (Luttes locales, espérance globale), Paris – Institut Momentum / Topophile – Jan 20-21, 2024. International bioregionalism meetings held in Paris, co-organized by the Institut Momentum and the revue Topophile under the title Luttes locales, espérance globale. A visible convening milestone of the francophone bioregional wave.
Rumblings: Preparing for Cascadia (documentary) – Oregon Department of Emergency Management / Portland Film Festival – 2024. A 56-minute documentary directed by Brian Landon and produced with the Oregon Department of Emergency Management, exploring the science of the coming Cascadia megathrust earthquake and community preparedness in Oregon. Premiered at the Portland Film Festival in 2024, with screenings across the Northwest including a Pacific Northwest Seismic Network event on the 325th anniversary, Jan 26, 2025.
El Gran Movimiento de Idaho: La Profunda División de los estadounidenses – UY Press (Uruguay) – Jul 4, 2024. Spanish-language column by Michael Mansilla on the Greater Idaho movement that presents Cascadia as the counter-response: a geographic and cultural region spanning Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia, with movements like CascadiaNow envisioning a utopian nation based on ecological values and respect for Indigenous cultures.

2023

Dubiau, Antoine. 2023. Writing the Intellectual History of Bioregionalism – Metropolitics / Métropolitiques – Dec 22, 2023. English translation by Oliver Waine of the Métropolitiques essay Faire l’histoire intellectuelle du biorégionalisme. Maps the movement’s American origins with Berg and Dasmann, the Italian territorialist reworking by Magnaghi, and the recent French reception through collapsology. One of the few English-language essays introducing the European bioregion wave to North American readers.
Envisioning Cascadia’s Wildfire Future (Sightline series) – Sightline Institute – anchored May 24, 2023. Article series explicitly framing wildfire and smoke seasons as a Cascadia-wide condition. Collects roughly ten pieces from 2019 through 2026, including “We’re Stuck on a Wildfire Treadmill” (May 24, 2023), “Uncontainable Wildfires Are Inevitable. Community Destruction Is Not.” (Nov 16, 2022), and “11% of Northwest Residents Live in Fire Country; 100% Pay the Price” (Feb 26, 2026). Argues Cascadia must learn to live with recurring smoke and extreme fire.
Thinking globally, acting locally and bioregionally – Victoria Times Colonist – 2023. Trevor Hancock opinion column introducing bioregionalism and bioregional thinking to a general readership, part of a series that also profiled Joe Brewer’s regeneration work.
Feds Grant $1 Million to Study Cascadia High-Speed Rail and Amtrak Cascades Upgrades – The Urbanist – Dec 9, 2023. The FRA selected the Cascadia ultra-high-speed corridor and Amtrak Cascades for its Corridor Identification and Development program, granting $500,000 each and unlocking Washington’s allocated state matching funds.
Cascadia bullet train stuck at the station as feds dole out big bucks for rail – Washington State Standard / OPB – Dec 8, 2023 (republished by OPB Dec 17, 2023). Analysis of the project’s slow pace as the FRA distributed major passenger rail funding nationally.
Alberto Magnaghi, founder of the territorialist school and urban bioregion concept, dies at 82 – Società dei territorialisti / il manifesto / gonews.it – Sep 21, 2023. Italian architect and urbanist Alberto Magnaghi, founder of the territorialist school and originator of the urban bioregion concept, died Sep 21, 2023 in Bra, Italy at 82. He founded the Società dei territorialisti in 2011 and coordinated the Urban Bioregion Project research unit at the University of Florence; his final book Ecoterritorialismo appeared in 2023. Tributes ran in il manifesto, La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, and La Nazione.
CRESCENT (Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center) – National Science Foundation / University of Oregon – Sep 2023. The nation’s first subduction zone earthquake hazards research center, established September 2023 with a five-year, $15 million National Science Foundation grant. Based at the University of Oregon and led by geoscientist Diego Melgar, it coordinates researchers at 14 institutions studying the Cascadia Subduction Zone and connecting the science to emergency managers and policymakers.
Regenerate Cascadia – Regenerate Cascadia / BioregionalEarth – 2023. Bioregional regeneration program and nonprofit initiative founded in 2023, co-founded by Brandon Letsinger, Clare Attwell, and Taya Seidler after they met at the first Salmon Nation Edge Prize in April 2023. It works with on-the-ground communities to design frameworks of governance, ecology, and economy for the Cascadia bioregion. A partnership between the Cascadia Department of Bioregion, the Design School for Regenerating Earth, and the Regenerative Communities Network; launched publicly through the 2023 Bioregional Activation Tour.
Bioregional Activation Tour (Regenerate Cascadia) – Regenerate Cascadia / Sustainable Connections – Oct 2023. A month-long tour that traveled to fourteen communities across Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, asking how to regenerate the Cascadia bioregion. More than a thousand people participated, including Indigenous knowledge keepers, regenerative leaders, and elders. Co-facilitated with Joe Brewer and Penny Heiple of the Design School for Regenerating Earth; launched the Regenerate Cascadia program.
Joe Brewer, cultural evolution and bioregional regeneration – Victoria Times Colonist – Oct 15, 2023. Opinion column by Trevor Hancock profiling Joe Brewer’s critique of institutions and his book The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth, framing bioregionalism as a route to cultural evolution and regeneration. Syndicated in the North Shore News and Richmond News.
Cascadia Bioregion Rife With Energy, Environment Troubles To Report in 2023 – Society of Environmental Journalists (TipSheet) – Feb 1, 2023. Robert McClure TipSheet organizing the year’s environmental story lines around the Cascadia bioregion, explicitly defined by the Fraser and Columbia watersheds, covering wildfire smoke, salmon decline, energy transition, and Indigenous treaty rights.
Lawmakers introduce bill that would require ultra-high-speed rail project to extend to Eugene – OPB – Feb 25, 2023. Oregon legislators proposed requiring the Cascadia bullet train project to extend south from Portland to Eugene.
Back to the future with a new bioregional journal – Resilience.org – Jan 4, 2023. Coverage of the launch of the Cascadia SPOKE, the Department of Bioregion’s new print bioregional journal, situating it in the lineage of Planet Drum’s Raise the Stakes and decades of bioregional publications.
Brothers Cascadia Brewing – Washington Beer Blog / Brewpublic – May 8, 2023. The Vancouver, Washington brewery announced it would open a second location, Brothers Cascadia Evergreen Pub, at 108 W Evergreen Boulevard in downtown Vancouver, a space that previously housed Salmon Creek Brewery and Old Ivy Brewery. The original Hazel Dell taproom continues to operate; both locations remain open as of 2026.
Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB) – New School Beer + Cider / Brewpublic / Oregon Business – Mar 2023. At its 15th anniversary the Portland brewery dropped “Urban” from its name and rebranded as Hopworks Brewery. It remains the first Certified B Corporation brewery in the Pacific Northwest, and its Secession Cascadian Dark Ale continues as a returning seasonal release. Hopworks closed its Vancouver, Washington pub on Aug 9, 2025 to refocus on the Powell Boulevard flagship in Portland.

2022

Forest Service withdraws Flat Country timber sale – Eugene Weekly / McKenzie River Reflections – Dec 20, 2022. The US Forest Service withdrew the Flat Country timber sale in the McKenzie watershed, which would have clearcut about 1,000 acres of mature and old-growth Douglas fir, after tree-sits by Cascadia Forest Defenders, litigation threats from Cascadia Wildlands, and a Biden old-growth executive order.
Joe Brewer’s Bold Quest to Help Restore a Bioregion – Resilience.org – Dec 8, 2022. Profile of Joe Brewer’s work relocating to and organizing the regeneration of the Barichara bioregion in Colombia, and his broader vision of a planetary network of bioregional learning centers, situating his Design Pathway framework within the emerging bioregional movement.
Les biorégions : une géographie alternative plus respectueuse du Vivant – La Relève et La Peste (France) – Aug 10, 2022. French independent media feature by Laurie Debove on bioregions as an alternative geography, crediting Peter Berg and Raymond Dasmann as founders and discussing Cascadia at length as the most accomplished bioregional experiment to date, spanning the Pacific Northwest with some 15 million inhabitants.
Dubiau, Antoine. 2022. Faire l’histoire intellectuelle du biorégionalisme – Métropolitiques (France) – Feb 28, 2022. French review essay tracing the intellectual history of bioregionalism from Peter Berg and Raymond Dasmann through Alberto Magnaghi’s Italian territorialist school to the recent French reception via Wildproject and collapsology. Calls Cascadia the principal bioregional experimentation and the in vivo laboratory of bioregionalist thought.
Metro Council will hear plan for ‘ultra’ high speed rail – BikePortland – Dec 5, 2022. Portland’s Metro regional government took up the Cascadia ultra-high-speed rail planning effort, marking Oregon-side institutional engagement.
Bill Yake, Cascadia nature poet and environmental scientist, dies at 75 – Poets & Writers / Empty Bowl Press – Dec 12, 2022. Bill Yake, Olympia-based poet and retired Washington Department of Ecology environmental scientist, died Dec 12, 2022 at 75 after a brief illness. His collections include This Old Riddle: Cormorants and Rain and the career retrospective Waymaking by Moonlight (Empty Bowl Press, 2020). A fixture of the Cascadia-region poetry community, which held SpeakEasy tribute readings.
Superabundant dispatch: New Cascadian cuisine and the pursuit of a perfect pear – OPB – Oct 21, 2022. Installment of OPB’s Superabundant food newsletter and video series, written by culinary historian Heather Arndt Anderson, examining the emergence of a New Cascadian cuisine alongside regional pear stories. The series covers the Pacific Northwest food ecosystem.
New Video Game Helps Young Adults Prepare for Earthquakes – Business Wire – Oct 17, 2022. Lewis & Clark College researchers launched Cascadia 9.0, a free video game teaching young adults to survive a Cascadia Subduction Zone megaquake; also covered by the Seattle Times and Government Technology.
Cascadia 9.0 (video game series) – Lewis & Clark College / Seattle Times / Portland Monthly – Oct 17, 2022. Free earthquake-preparedness video game series (Cascadia 9.0, 9.1, 9.2) launched October 2022 by a Lewis & Clark College research team led by geoscientist Liz Safran, with computer scientist Peter Drake and colleagues. Players navigate a Portland devastated by a magnitude 9 Cascadia quake, learning survival skills such as water purification and sanitation.
Big Cascadia climate action ideas, meet small business – Cascadia Daily News – Sep 21, 2022. Follow-up on the Blaine conference examining how the corridor’s climate action agenda intersects with small business interests in Whatcom County.
Cascadia 2050 Vision conference brings together international leaders – Cascadia Daily News – Sep 14, 2022. Coverage of the sixth Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference in Blaine, Washington, focused on climate action across the megaregion.
Cascadia 2050 Vision: Moving to Climate Action (report) – Challenge Seattle / Cascadia Innovation Corridor – Sep 12, 2022. Follow-up report to Cascadia Vision 2050 released for the sixth annual Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference, held Sep 12-13, 2022 in Blaine, Washington. Outlines 14 public-private partnership opportunities for regional climate action; conference participants included Jay Inslee, John Horgan, Kate Brown, and Gavin Newsom.
Shoalwater Bay tsunami vertical evacuation tower dedication – Washington State Military Department – Aug 5, 2022. The Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe dedicated the nation’s first standalone tsunami vertical evacuation tower in Tokeland, Washington. The 50-foot tower holds more than 400 people and was built for the tsunami expected to follow a Cascadia Subduction Zone rupture, serving tribal members and the wider community.
Are Black IPAs Back from the Brink of Oblivion? – Hop Culture – Jul 19, 2022. Grace Lee-Weitz documents the style’s resurgence, including Firestone Walker’s 2021 return of Wookey Jack selling out within days and Stone’s most-requested-beer revival, noting the style is also called Cascadian Dark Ale.
Cascadia wins Spiel des Jahres 2022 – Spiel des Jahres / GamesRadar+ – Jul 17, 2022. Jury announcement naming the Pacific Northwest tile-laying game Cascadia by Randy Flynn (Flatout Games/AEG/Kosmos) Game of the Year, the board game industry’s most prestigious award; covered by GamesRadar+ and other outlets in July 2022.
Bioregional Post-nationalism Vs. The World (Baretich interview) – David Nwaeze (Substack) – Jul 10, 2022. Newsletter essay by movement journalist David Nwaeze built on an interview with Doug flag designer Alexander Baretich, mapping the internal tension between bioregionalists seeking ecological social transformation and territorialists pursuing conventional secession.
Heat Pumps a Win-Win for Cascadia’s Now Hotter, Drier Summers – Sightline Institute – Jun 30, 2022. Published on the first anniversary of the 2021 heat dome, arguing heat pumps are the key adaptation for Cascadia’s hotter summers; an example of heat dome coverage using explicit Cascadia framing.
Cascadia Rising (2022 exercise) – Washington State Military Department / FEMA – Jun 13, 2022. FEMA and Washington, Oregon, and Idaho ran Cascadia Rising 2022 (CR22) Jun 13-17, 2022, the second national-level exercise simulating a magnitude 9.0 Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and tsunami. Built on lessons from the 2016 exercise; more than 600 participants from tribal nations, state and federal agencies, private sector, and nonprofits took part in a largely virtual, discussion-based format focused on critical transportation and mass care.
First Foods: How Native people are preserving the natural nourishment of the Pacific Northwest – The Seattle Times – Jul 10, 2022. Multimedia project by Lynda V. Mapes and Erika J. Schultz documenting Indigenous food sovereignty across the region, from salmon and Celilo Falls to camas prairie harvests and shellfish, framing traditional foods as central to tribal health, treaty rights, and cultural identity.
Elliott State Research Forest created, ending decades-long logging fight – Cascadia Wildlands – Mar 2022. The Oregon legislature passed SB 1546 creating the 82,500-acre Elliott State Research Forest, decoupling it from the Common School Fund and protecting 93 percent of its remaining mature and old-growth stands; Cascadia Wildlands, a lead litigant for over 20 years, declared victory.
Washington State approves $150 million to plan Vancouver-Seattle high-speed rail – Daily Hive – Mar 2022. The Move Ahead Washington transportation package allocated $4 million for expanded high-speed rail framework analysis and $150 million in matching funds to leverage federal grants over six years.
Back to Black IPAs: Are Cascadian Dark Ales making a return? – Beer Dabbler – Jan 7, 2022. Loren Green feature asking whether malt-forward Cascadian dark ales are returning, citing seasonal CDA and black IPA releases including Town Hall Brewery’s Cascadian Dark Ale and Stone’s Sublimely Self-Righteous.
Blueprint for a Resilient Cascadia – University of Washington Climate Impacts Group – 2022. Winter 2022 report from the UW Climate Impacts Group and partners identifying priority climate adaptation actions coordinated across the political boundaries of the Cascadia region, produced through the Cascadia Climate Adaptation Strategy project.

2021

Cascadia’s Chance for a Zero-Carbon Future: What We Learned – The Tyee / InvestigateWest / Crosscut – Dec 15, 2021. Year-end synthesis of the Decarbonizing Cascadia series on the region’s path to zero carbon; companion pieces ran as “How Cascadia Can Prevent Another Lost Decade” (InvestigateWest) and “How Cascadia can fight climate change in 2022” (Crosscut).
How Cascadia can prevent another ‘lost decade’ in the fight against climate change – Jefferson Public Radio – Dec 11, 2021. Explicitly Cascadia-framed analysis of regional climate action following the 2021 heat dome year, produced within the InvestigateWest, Grist, Crosscut, JPR, The Tyee, South Seattle Emerald, and Evergrey collaboration.
Reward tops $36,000 in fatal poisoning of eight Oregon wolves – KTVZ / Defenders of Wildlife – Dec 6, 2021. A coalition including Cascadia Wildlands built a reward fund for information on the poisoning of eight gray wolves, including the entire Catherine Pack, in Union County, Oregon during 2021; the fund later grew toward $50,000.
Jordan Cove LNG terminal and Pacific Connector pipeline abandoned – OPB – Dec 1, 2021. Pembina asked federal regulators to withdraw authorizations for the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal at Coos Bay and its feeder pipeline, ending a 17-year fight led by tribes, landowners, fishermen, and climate groups; widely counted as the final major Thin Green Line victory of the era.
Washington State proposes $150 million for Vancouver-Seattle high-speed rail planning – Daily Hive – Dec 2021. Governor Inslee’s supplemental transportation budget proposed $150 million toward Cascadia high-speed rail planning and federal match positioning.
Cascadia Forest Defenders occupy road into Breitenbush watershed timber sale – Double Sided Media – Nov 16-18, 2021. Beginning Nov 16, 2021, Cascadia Forest Defenders occupied a road leading to public forest slated for post-fire clearcutting in the Breitenbush watershed of the Willamette National Forest, alongside a campus demonstration in Eugene.
Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia sign high-speed rail MOU – GeekWire – Nov 16, 2021. At the 2021 corridor conference in Vancouver, Governor Jay Inslee, Governor Kate Brown, and Premier John Horgan signed a memorandum of understanding to advance ultra-high-speed ground transportation, creating a joint policy committee to coordinate planning and pursue funding.
An Introduction to Cascadia Psych – Bandcamp Daily – Nov 8, 2021. Scene report by Katie Kurtz defining a Cascadia psych sound rooted in the bioregion, explicitly framing Cascadia as a bioregion from the Copper River to Cape Mendocino and noting the independence movement and Cascadia flags; highlights Plankton Wat, Rose City Band, Midday Veil, Shabazz Palaces, and others.
Lee Maracle, leading voice in Indigenous literature, dies at 71 – Global News / CBC Books – Nov 11, 2021. Sto:lo author, poet, and activist Lee Maracle died Nov 11, 2021 in Vancouver at 71. Maracle was a contributor to the anthology Cascadia: The Life and Breath of the World and the granddaughter of Tsleil-Waututh Chief Dan George, another anthology contributor.
Cascadia Forest Defenders tree-sit against Flat Country timber sale – KLCC / Eugene Weekly / McKenzie River Reflections – Sep 15, 2021. Up to ten Cascadia Forest Defenders occupied platforms 113 feet up in old growth to block the Flat Country timber sale in the McKenzie River watershed of the Willamette National Forest, while Cascadia Wildlands pursued legal challenges.
The Pacific Northwest, strong and free: On the inevitable rise of Cascadia – The Globe and Mail – Sep 17, 2021. Christopher Pollon opinion essay arguing that BC, Washington, and Oregon share landscapes, progressive politics, and environmental and economic challenges that will bind them closer together as Cascadia, whatever formal borders do.
Whatcom County bans new fossil fuel infrastructure at Cherry Point – KNKX / Salish Current / RE Sources – Jul 27, 2021. The Whatcom County Council voted unanimously for permanent land-use rules banning new refineries, coal plants, piers, and transshipment facilities at Cherry Point, making it the first US refinery community to enact such a ban; celebrated as a landmark Thin Green Line victory protecting the Salish Sea.
Bright Line Watch surveys measure Pacific-region secession support – Bright Line Watch – 2021 (reports February and July). Bright Line Watch and YouGov surveyed Americans in early 2021 and again in June 2021 on willingness to secede as part of regional blocs, with West Coast respondents asked about a Pacific union of Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, and Hawaii. By the June 26 to July 2, 2021 wave, 47 percent of Pacific-region Democrats expressed support, and overall willingness reached 37 percent. The Pacific bloc question was widely read against the Cascadia idea.
A Distant Fire: Alda’s Deep Forest Emergence – Invisible Oranges – 2021. Interview feature on Tacoma’s Alda around the release of A Distant Fire, discussing the band’s Cascadian black metal framing and Pacific Northwest roots.
A Key Step in Decarbonizing Cascadia: Cleaning Up What Can’t Plug In – Jefferson Public Radio / InvestigateWest – May 22, 2021. Decarbonizing Cascadia series installment on cleaning up sectors that cannot be electrified, such as heavy transport and industry, across the Cascadia region.
Le biorégionalisme, le monde d’après ? (Revue Silence no. 496 special issue) – Revue Silence (France) – Feb 2021. Special issue of the French ecology magazine Silence devoted to bioregionalism as a post-pandemic territorial proposition, with articles including “Qu’est-ce que le biorégionalisme ?”, “Les différentes couleurs du biorégionalisme”, and “Pour un biorégionalisme émancipateur.” Documents the French debate over the movement’s libertarian and emancipatory currents.
Vancouver, Seattle, Portland mega-region concept lives on – RENX – May 3, 2021. Kerry Gold report on a real estate industry panel debate on whether high-speed rail and the Cascadia megaregion concept would deliver economic growth for BC.
Fighting Cascadia’s Final Mega-Pipelines to the Last Mile – Jefferson Public Radio / Crosscut / InvestigateWest – Mar 11, 2021. Reports on Indigenous-led resistance to the Trans Mountain expansion and Coastal GasLink, including the Tsleil-Waututh watch house and a treehouse camp by the salmon-bearing Brunette River, framed as Cascadia’s last mega-pipeline fights.
Cascadia mapping shows communities most vulnerable to effects of climate change – OPB – Feb 25, 2021. Reports on cross-border mapping identifying which Cascadia communities are most vulnerable to climate-fueled wildfire, flood, and heat, part of the Decarbonizing Cascadia series.
A Thin Green Line with Global Impact – InvestigateWest / Crosscut / Grist / Jefferson Public Radio – Jan 17, 2021. Robert McClure documents how activist coalitions blocked fossil-fuel export proposals equal to five Keystone XL pipelines through Cascadia’s ports between 2004 and 2017; republished as “How Cascadia’s climate activists fought off fossil fuels and succeeded” (Crosscut) and by Grist and JPR.
Washington denies key permit for Kalama methanol refinery; project dies – Washington Department of Ecology / OPB / Seattle Times – Jan 19-20, 2021. Washington’s Department of Ecology denied shoreline permits for the Northwest Innovation Works fracked-gas-to-methanol refinery at Kalama on the Columbia River, a long-running Thin Green Line fight; the developer terminated its lease in June 2021, ending the project.
Broken promises: Cascadia region not on track to cut carbon emissions – OPB / InvestigateWest / Crosscut – Jan 12, 2021. Series-opening investigation showing greenhouse gas emissions rose across Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia from 2012 to 2018 despite the region’s climate-leader reputation; also ran as “How Cascadia has faltered in addressing climate change” at Crosscut.
Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia (journalism series) – InvestigateWest with Grist, Crosscut, The Tyee, South Seattle Emerald, The Evergrey, Jefferson Public Radio – 2021. Yearlong cross-border reporting initiative led by InvestigateWest examining why British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon, framed explicitly as Cascadia, were failing to meet carbon goals and how the region could decarbonize. Included data analysis, animation, and a theater production; reporters interviewed more than 200 sources.
Remembering Jerry Gorsline, environmental champion and bioregional editor – Port Townsend Leader / Rainshadow Journal / Olympic Forest Coalition – Mar 29, 2021. Jeremiah “Jerry” Gorsline, naturalist, conservationist, and early participant in the Planet Drum Foundation, died Mar 29, 2021 at his Discovery Bay, Washington home at 80. Gorsline co-edited the Empty Bowl bioregional classic Working the Woods, Working the Sea with Finn Wilcox and was a longtime forest ecology and Northwest history advocate on the Olympic Peninsula.

2020

Barry Lopez, Oregon nature writer and Cascadia anthology contributor, dies at 75 – Willamette Week / OPB / Literary Arts / Seattle Times – Dec 25, 2020. National Book Award-winning nature writer Barry Lopez, author of Arctic Dreams and a contributor to the anthology Cascadia: The Life and Breath of the World, died Dec 25, 2020 at 75 at his longtime home on the McKenzie River in Oregon; his home and archive had burned in the September 2020 Holiday Farm Fire. Obituaries were regionally framed around his decades living and writing along the McKenzie. A posthumous essay collection, Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World, followed in 2022.
Report Lays Out Framework for a Cascadia High-Speed Rail Authority – The Urbanist – Dec 17, 2020. WSDOT’s Framework for the Future report to the legislature, prepared by WSP, recommended a cross-border coordinating entity and laid out governance, engagement, and funding steps for the corridor.
Cascadia High Speed Rail proposed 12 daily Seattle-to-Portland trips – ClarkCountyToday.com – Dec 14, 2020. Coverage of the Framework for the Future planning work, including 12 proposed daily Portland-Seattle round trips, roughly 3 million annual passengers by 2055, and $24-42 billion estimated cost.
Cascadia Data Alliance receives $1.2M for cancer research – Cascadia Innovation Corridor – Nov 13, 2020. The Cascadia Data Alliance, the corridor’s cross-border health-data collaboration, received $1.2 million to support shared cancer research across Washington and British Columbia institutions.
Secession Movements Are Thriving In The NW – Jefferson Public Radio (from OPB) – Oct 13, 2020. Republication of Anna Griffin’s OPB reporting on Pacific Northwest secession movements, covering the State of Jefferson, Greater Idaho, and Cascadia, with CascadiaNow! founder Brandon Letsinger describing the bioregional approach.
Cascadia Vision 2050 Report Argues Hub-Cities Can Solve Affordability and Sustainability Challenges – The Urbanist – Oct 6, 2020. Analysis of the BCG-backed Cascadia Vision 2050 hub-cities proposal for the megaregion.
Cascadia Vision 2050 (report) – Challenge Seattle / Cascadia Innovation Corridor – Sep 21, 2020. Report released by the Cascadia Innovation Corridor with Boston Consulting Group analysis, proposing that Cascadia become the world’s first sustainable megaregion by 2050. It recommends building new hub cities of up to 400,000 people on underdeveloped land between Vancouver BC, Seattle, and Portland, connected by high-speed transit, to absorb projected growth to 12 million residents.
Gary Snyder at 90: birthday tributes – UC Davis Library / Allen Ginsberg Project – May 8, 2020. Gary Snyder, a founding intellectual figure of bioregionalism and originator of the reinhabitation concept, turned 90 on May 8, 2020. UC Davis Library, which holds his archive, published a tribute, and readers worldwide posted readings under #GarySnyder90. Retrospectives framed him as a central architect of bioregional thought and deep ecology.
The Making of the ‘Thin Green Line’ – PBS Peril & Promise – Apr 2020. Feature on how the Pacific Northwest’s coordinated resistance to fossil fuel export infrastructure came to be known as the Thin Green Line.
Poll results underline B.C.’s proud, independent streak – Business in Vancouver / Glacier Media – Jul 2020. Mario Canseco column on a Research Co. survey of 800 BC adults conducted Jul 22 to 24, 2020. Support for BC as a standalone country rose to 27 percent from 17 percent in 2018 and 2019, and majorities across all age groups said they feel more in common with Seattle and Portland than with Toronto or Montreal, with Cascadia affinity strongest among those aged 18 to 34.
A Win Over Petrochemicals in Anacortes – Sightline Institute – Jan 27, 2020. Reports the Marathon refinery at Anacortes formally withdrew its xylene petrochemical production plan in December 2019, counted as another Thin Green Line victory for the region.
The Climate Clock Is Running Out – Sightline Institute – Jan 31, 2020. Essay by founder Alan Durning arguing that “We Cascadians are unprepared for our role as a climate refuge for our continent and beyond.” Projects that the Eugene-to-Vancouver BC metropolitan strip of 10 million people will grow by millions more as climate disruption drives migration to Cascadia, and that the region has no plans to accommodate the arrivals.
Seattle Sounders FC Forever Green Kit (Doug flag jersey) – Seattle Sounders FC / Football Fashion / MLSsoccer.com – Feb 6, 2020. Seattle Sounders FC unveiled its 2020-2021 adidas home kit, the Forever Green kit, with the Cascadia Doug flag rendered at the back neckline. The club worked directly with flag designer Alexander Baretich for permission to include the flag, citing its passion for the region. The kit put the bioregional flag on a major-league professional sports uniform worn through the 2020 and 2021 MLS seasons.
The Cascadia Flag: Symbol of a Bioregion – Portland Tribune – Mar 23, 2020. Shelley McFarland explainer on the Cascadia flag as the unofficial symbol of the bioregion, walking through the blue, white, and green symbolism and the Douglas fir as an emblem of regional resilience, and noting Portland’s Elmer’s Flag and Banner as a retail source.
Longterm vision for Seattle-Portland-Vancouver mega-region will require a ‘consensus on growth’ – GeekWire – 2020. Coverage of the Cascadia Vision 2050 report and the virtual forum series that replaced the 2020 in-person conference during the pandemic.
Cascadia mega-region should build hub cities for smart growth: report – Daily Hive – 2020. Vancouver coverage of the Cascadia Vision 2050 hub-cities recommendation and its growth and congestion projections.

2019

Cascadia’s Courtship of High-Speed Rail – The Urbanist – Nov 22, 2019. Report from the Cascadia Rail Summit at Microsoft on governance, financing, and next steps for the corridor.
The Case for Portland-to-Vancouver High-Speed Rail – Bloomberg CityLab – Dec 4, 2019. National coverage making the case for the Cascadia megaregion rail link following the business case and rail summit.
Cascadia dreaming: plans for an ultra-high-speed rail link in the Pacific Northwest – Future Rail / Railway Technology – Dec 2019. Feature on the Cascadia ultra-high-speed rail proposal, its studies, and cross-border politics.
Does Cascadia High-Speed Rail have a future after Initiative 976? – Crosscut / Cascade PBS – Nov 2019. Examined whether passage of Tim Eyman’s car-tab measure I-976 threatened Washington’s funding commitment to Cascadia high-speed rail planning.
Cascadia Rail Summit – Daily Hive / Global News / GeekWire – Nov 6, 2019. Summit hosted at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Nov 6-8, 2019, convening officials, business leaders, and rail experts from Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia to build momentum for Vancouver-Seattle-Portland high-speed rail following the July 2019 business case. Speakers included Christine Gregoire and Microsoft government affairs staff.
Mourning Tom Jay: ‘watershed shaman,’ poet, bronze artist – Port Townsend Leader / Peninsula Daily News / Olympic Peninsula Environmental News – Nov 10, 2019. Tom Jay, Port Townsend area sculptor, poet, and co-founder with Sara Johani of Wild Olympic Salmon, died Nov 10, 2019 at 76. Jay led the successful restoration of summer chum salmon to Chimacum Creek and made salmon his totem in decades of bioregional art, essays, and bronze work; the Port Townsend Leader memorialized him as a “watershed shaman.”
Richard Nelson, Sitka writer and ‘Encounters’ radio host, dies at 77 – KCAW / Alaska Public Media / Sitka Conservation Society – Nov 4, 2019. Cultural anthropologist and nature writer Richard “Nels” Nelson, author of The Island Within (John Burroughs Medal, 1991) and host of the syndicated nature radio program Encounters, died Nov 4, 2019 at 77. Nelson served four decades on the Sitka Conservation Society board and wrote place-immersed accounts of the Southeast Alaska rainforest coast, the northern edge of McCloskey’s Cascadia.
Holding the Thin Green Line (audio documentary) – KBOO / Sightline Institute – Oct 15, 2019. Audio documentary by Portland producer Barbara Bernstein, aired on KBOO and highlighted by Sightline Institute. Chronicles the Pacific Northwest communities that fought off coal, oil, and gas export terminals along the Thin Green Line.
David McCloskey presents ‘The Ish-River-Lillooet Country and the Salish Sea’ map at Seattle University – Cascadia Department of Bioregion – Oct 17, 2019. David McCloskey of the Cascadia Institute presented his map “The Ish-River-Lillooet Country and the Salish Sea” at Wyckoff Auditorium, Seattle University, announced by the Cascadia Department of Bioregion as “Coming Home: A New Map Telling a New Story of this Place.”
Cascadia Innovation Corridor Pursues Bold Vision for the Future – PR Newswire / Cascadia Innovation Corridor – Oct 2019. Press release for the fourth annual Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference, held Oct 2-3, 2019 in Seattle under the theme Inventing Tomorrow Together.
Salmon Nation (a nature state) – Salmon Nation Trust / Ecotrust – Oct 2019. Relaunch of Ecotrust’s Salmon Nation concept as an independent venture by Spencer Beebe, Ian Gill, Chris Brookfield, and Cheryl Chen, framing the bioregion from the Sacramento River to the Yukon as a nature state rather than a nation state. Its territory follows the historical range of Pacific salmon, and it held a founding gathering in Sitka in October 2019 with a network of place-based investors and Ravens. It later spawned a bioregional finance arm, Salmon Returns, led by CEO Cheryl Chen.
Protectors of the Salish Sea – KUOW / The Seattle Times – Sep 24, 2019. Indigenous-led organization founded by Saanich Nation member Paul Chiyokten Wagner working to end the fossil fuel era in the Salish Sea. After a 40-mile, four-day walk, the group erected tarpee structures on the Washington State Capitol steps demanding Governor Inslee declare a climate emergency; police in riot gear cleared the encampment the next morning.
Pourquoi s’installer sur la côte ouest ? – Radio-Canada – Aug 31, 2019. French-language feature by Alexandre Milette-Gagnon on west coast identity and migration that includes a section on the historical Cascadia independence proposals uniting British Columbia with Washington and Oregon, and on Ernest Callenbach’s 1975 novel Ecotopia as the idea’s modern popularizer.
Said the Whale Cascadia Cookbook – Exclaim! – Aug 26, 2019. Vancouver band Said the Whale released an 80-page Cascadia Cookbook pairing a Pacific Northwest recipe with each song on their 2019 album Cascadia, with recipes by keyboardist Jaycelyn Brown and locally sourced and foraged ingredients championed by vocalist Ben Worcester. Sold on their Canadian tour and online.
The Pacific’s Cascadia to play Darfur United in first all-CONIFA men’s soccer match in North America – Darfur United – Jun 2019. Darfur United announced a Jul 27, 2019 friendly against Cascadia at French Field in Kent, Washington, billed as the first all-CONIFA men’s soccer match played in North America. Cascadia won its first home match 8-1 before 152 spectators.
Cascadia High-Speed Rail: Climate Implications Makes Business Case Even Stronger – The Urbanist – Jul 17, 2019. Analysis of the 2019 business case arguing climate benefits strengthen the argument for Cascadia high-speed rail.
The business case for high speed rail – Seattle Transit Blog – Jul 15, 2019. Coverage of the WSDOT business case release, summarizing ridership, revenue, and cost findings for the Cascadia corridor.
WSDOT Ultra-High-Speed Ground Transportation Business Case Analysis released – Washington State Department of Transportation – Jul 15, 2019. The 400-page business case for 220 mph service linking Vancouver BC, Seattle, and Portland projected up to 3 million annual trips and $250 million in annual revenue by 2040, roughly $24-42 billion in capital costs, operating surplus by mid-century, and about 160,000 additional permanent jobs across the Cascadia megaregion. Funded by Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, and Microsoft.
High-speed rail connecting Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland worth the cost: report – Daily Hive – Jul 2019. Vancouver-side coverage of the WSDOT business case, highlighting sub-one-hour segment travel times, 1.7 to 3 million annual trips by 2040, and $24-42 billion capital cost.
Vancouver-Seattle-Portland high speed rail study – Railway Gazette International – Jul 2019. Trade press coverage of the Cascadia ultra-high-speed ground transportation business case analysis.
Washington Policy Center critique of the UHSGT Business Case – Washington Policy Center – 2019. The free-market think tank argued the WSDOT Ultra High-Speed Ground Transportation business case was promotional and contained errors and misstatements, representing the main published opposition to the study.
High-speed rail linking Vancouver-Seattle-Portland zips closer to reality – Vancouver Courier / Vancouver Is Awesome – 2019. Coverage of the business case findings and cross-border political momentum from the BC side.
British Columbians identify more with people in Washington than Alberta – Daily Hive / Angus Reid Institute – Jan 2019. Coverage of an Angus Reid Institute western identity study finding 54 percent of British Columbians feel they have the most in common with Washington state, versus 15 percent choosing Alberta. Echoes a 1991 Angus Reid finding of about 50 percent. Widely read as evidence of a cross-border Cascadian identity; also covered by Vancouver Is Awesome.
Linda Garcia wins Goldman Environmental Prize for defending the Thin Green Line – Sierra (Sierra Club magazine) – Apr 29, 2019. Vancouver, Washington community organizer Linda Garcia received the Goldman Environmental Prize for leading the campaign that stopped the Tesoro Savage crude-by-rail terminal, the largest proposed oil train depot in North America, framed as defense of the Thin Green Line.
Cascadia Forest Defenders and Extinction Rebellion tree-sit at University of Oregon – KLCC – Apr 16, 2019. Cascadia Forest Defenders and Extinction Rebellion launched a 70-foot tree-sit at the University of Oregon in Eugene protesting climate change and the Thurston Hills logging project.
Jay Inslee Steps to the Front of the Thin Green Line – Sightline Institute – May 9, 2019. Analysis of Governor Jay Inslee’s presidential-campaign climate positioning as leadership of Cascadia’s Thin Green Line against fossil fuel infrastructure.
Northwest Wine: Taste of Cascadia returns to Lodge at Columbia Point – The Spokesman-Review – May 15, 2019. Preview of the second annual Taste of Cascadia consumer tasting at the Lodge at Columbia Point in Richland, Washington, pouring award winners from that spring’s Cascadia International Wine Competition.
A Magazine to Capture the ‘Shared Culture’ of Cascadia – The Tyee – Mar 26, 2019. Profile of Cascadia Magazine and publisher Andrew Engelson on covering the shared cross-border culture of the Cascadia bioregion.
Washington House Democrats Propose Funding To Study High-Speed Rail, Other Critical Transportation Issues – The Urbanist – Mar 26, 2019. House transportation budget writers proposed continued funding for Cascadia ultra-high-speed ground transportation planning in the 2019 session.
Cascadian Black Metal legends Fauna sign to Lupus Lounge/Prophecy Productions – Ripple Music / Kronos Mortus News – Mar 6, 2019. Olympia’s Fauna, framed in the announcement as Cascadian black metal originators, sign to Lupus Lounge/Prophecy Productions and announce a European tour.
Transportation Appropriations Bill Kickstarts Cascadia High-Speed Rail Authority – The Urbanist – May 3, 2019. Washington’s final 2019 transportation budget authorized up to $895,000 for high-speed rail authority development, with $224,000 in direct state appropriations and the remainder expected from British Columbia, Oregon, and business partners, tasking WSDOT with a cross-border governance framework.
Said the Whale: Cascadia (album review) – Exclaim! – Feb 2019. Review coverage of the Vancouver band’s sixth album Cascadia (Arts & Crafts), named for the bioregion and drawing on coastal British Columbia imagery; additional reviews ran in Under the Radar and Canadian Beats.
Cascadia Interstate High-Speed Rail Authority Chugging Toward Legislative Approval – The Urbanist – Jan 16, 2019. Governor Inslee’s legislation proposed up to $3.25 million in biennial appropriations to establish an interstate high-speed rail authority in partnership with Oregon and British Columbia.
Cascadia Grains Conference this weekend in Olympia – Washington Beer Blog – Jan 16, 2019. Preview of the 7th annual Cascadia Grains Conference at South Puget Sound Community College, describing the WSU project’s mission to revitalize the regional grain economy. Notes that Fremont Brewing brewed a special Grains of Cascadia Single Farm Pale Ale for the conference.

2018 (new additions; baseline 2018 coverage continues in the section below)

Cascadia Playbook (Version 3.0) – Oregon Office of Emergency Management / KOIN / US News – Dec 2018. Oregon’s Office of Emergency Management released Version 3.0 of the Cascadia Playbook in late 2018, a roughly 100-page reorganization of the state’s earthquake and tsunami response plan. The update restructured each play around specific time frames (first hour, first six hours, first 12 hours and beyond) for the two weeks after a Cascadia Subduction Zone rupture. Covered by KOIN and KGW in December 2018 and by a US News commentary in January 2019.
Companies blocked from using West Coast ports to export fossil fuels keep seeking workarounds – The Conversation – Nov 28, 2018. Researchers Shawn Olson Hazboun and Hilary Boudet analyze how energy companies sought workarounds after Pacific Northwest communities built a “thin green line” of resistance that blocked coal, oil, and gas export terminals.
Microsoft, Oregon, and B.C. kick in $750K for new study of high-speed rail in the Pacific Northwest – GeekWire – Oct 2018. At the third Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference in Vancouver (Oct 9-10, 2018), Microsoft, the BC government, and ODOT added $750,000 to Washington’s $750,000 to fund WSDOT’s business case analysis of a 250 mph Vancouver-Seattle-Portland line, bringing study funding to about $1.5 million.
Freeman House, Influential Restorationist, Dies at 80 – North Coast Journal / Mattole Restoration Council – Jun 27, 2018. Freeman House, author of Totem Salmon and co-founder of the Mattole Restoration Council, died Jun 23, 2018 at age 80. The obituary credits him and his cohort with the first community-based restoration effort in California, organized around bioregionalism in the Mattole watershed. The Mattole Restoration Council published “Remembering Freeman House” on Aug 28, 2018.
Cascadia’s quest for CONIFA World Football Cup glory sets up quarter-final showdown with Karpatalya – AFTN – Jun 2018. Coverage of Cascadia’s group-stage run at the 2018 CONIFA World Football Cup in London and its quarterfinal against eventual champion Karpatalya. Cascadia finished the tournament sixth.
James Riley: From MLS to the CONIFA World Football Cup with Cascadia – MLSsoccer.com – 2018. Profile of former MLS defender James Riley joining the Cascadia team for the 2018 CONIFA World Football Cup, bringing league-level attention to the bioregional side.
La Coupe du monde des peuples sans État – Radio-Canada Sports – Jun 7, 2018. French-language feature by Robert Frosi on the 2018 CONIFA World Football Cup for stateless peoples, presenting Cascadia, described as a region on the west coast of the United States and Canada, among the unrecognized nations competing alongside Tibet, Abkhazia, and Kurdish territories.
Fallout: Cascadia Fan Project Looks To Bring Nature Back To The Wasteland – Kotaku – May 25, 2018. Profile of the fan-made Fallout Cascadia mod recreating Seattle with a nature-reclaimed post-apocalyptic landscape across an 80 square kilometer map.
New Vancouver-Seattle seaplane service announced – Cascadia Innovation Corridor – Apr 5, 2018. Direct Vancouver-Seattle seaplane service by Harbour Air and Kenmore Air was announced as a corridor connectivity milestone and launched later that month.
Sam Hamill, poet and Copper Canyon Press co-founder, dies at 74 – Poetry Foundation / Peninsula Daily News / Publishers Weekly – Apr 14, 2018. Sam Hamill, poet, translator, co-founder of Port Townsend’s Copper Canyon Press, and founder of Poets Against War, died Apr 14, 2018 at his home in Anacortes, Washington at 74. A central elder of the Cascadia poetry community; the Cascadia Poetics LAB circle published his official obituary and later produced the tribute anthology Samthology.
Ursula K. Le Guin dies in Portland; Oregon tributes – Portland Monthly / Literary Arts / OPB – Jan 22, 2018. Ursula K. Le Guin, author of Always Coming Home, died Jan 22, 2018 at her Portland home at 88. Oregon coverage was strongly regional, with Portland Monthly collecting tributes and Literary Arts hosting a public memorial in Portland on Jun 13, 2018. Always Coming Home is a foundational bioregional novel in the Bioregional Reader baseline.
Talking with Andrew Engelson, the publisher of the brand-new Cascadia Magazine – Seattle Review of Books – Jan 24, 2018. Launch interview with Andrew Engelson on founding Cascadia Magazine as an online publication for journalism, fiction, and poetry from the Cascadia bioregion.
Cascadia Times (2018 Kickstarter revival) – Portland Tribune / Cascadia Underground – Jan 30, 2018. Co-founder Paul Koberstein launched a Kickstarter on Jan 28, 2018 seeking $15,000 to revive Cascadia Times, the environmental journal founded 1995 and largely on hiatus since 2009, covering the Cascadia bioregion defined as the range of Pacific salmon and temperate rainforest. Coverage ran in the Portland Tribune and Cascadia Underground. The publication resumed online at times.org. Koberstein later co-authored Canopy of Titans (2023).

Earlier gap-fills (pre-2018 items absent from the baseline)

Critique : Dark Thoughts, The Shivas – Le Devoir – Nov 14, 2019. Music review of Portland band The Shivas’ album Dark Thoughts that situates the record in a west coast lineage it names as the birthplace of the Beach Boys, the Cascadia independence movement, Nirvana, and Twin Peaks.
Alda’s Passage: Music and environment, Cascadian style – People’s World – c. 2015. Feature on Alda’s album Passage treating the band’s music as an expression of Cascadian environmental identity. An older item the baseline missed.
Climate refugees are coming to the Pacific Northwest (and Part 2: the real Cascadia answer) – Crosscut – Sep 2014. Two-part Knute Berger Mossback column predicting a climate refugee boom in the Pacific Northwest and asking, in explicitly Cascadian terms, how the region should respond, including growth management and regional identity questions.
Cascadia, la república del Pacífico – Documentalium (Spanish-language blog) – Mar 2016. Spanish-language explainer on Cascadia as a proposed Pacific republic covering the bioregion, the Doug flag, and the independence movement.
Colombie-Britannique : Bienvenue en Cascadie ! – L’actualité (Quebec) – Nov 17, 2009. French-language feature by Jonathan Trudel (December 2009 issue), written ahead of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Introduces francophone readers to Cascadia as a bioregion and hypothetical state formed by British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon, tracing the concept to Callenbach’s Ecotopia and Garreau’s Nine Nations of North America. Fills the French-coverage gap.

The sections below are the CURRENT BASELINE (previously ending at April-July 2018). Formatting normalized; no baseline entry dropped.

2018 (baseline coverage)

BC wine tops Cascadia Wine Competition – Spokesman-Review – Apr 17, 2018
Cascadia Announced Major Breakthrough in Blockchain Industry – Business Wire – Jan 15, 2018. Cascadia Consumer Electronics brand-name use.
Taste of Cascadia (20 NW wineries) – Tri-City Herald – Jun 26, 2018
Cascadia Rail pushes for PNW bullet train – KOIN – Feb 12, 2018
CASCADIA International Women’s Film Festival – WhatcomTalk – Mar 13, 2018
Northwest artists share travels, Cascadia Art Museum – Daily Herald – Apr 5, 2018
High-speed rail enthusiasts push to connect Cascadia – CTV News – Jun 9, 2018
High speed rail could link Spokane to Cascadia – Spokesman-Review – Jan 22, 2018
Cascadia Cave archaeology – OregonLive – May 13, 2018
Mr Nude Cascadia – Advocate.com – May 5, 2018
Small Homes, Big Climate Dividends for Cascadia – Sightline Daily Score – Jul 18, 2018
Anthony Gill: High-speed rail would transform our state – Spokesman-Review – Mar 3, 2018
Kalama methanol refinery – Sightline Daily Score – Jul 2, 2018
Tommy Orange review – Cascadia Weekly – Jul 17, 2018
“Cascadia: Where Oregon Meets” photo exhibit at OSU – Corvallis Gazette Times – Jun 28, 2018
Trans-Cascadia 2018 race dates – Pinkbike – Jan 16, 2018
Cascadia Rail interest group forms – KIRO – Feb 16, 2018
“Cascadia” Team Competes in Alternative World Cup (ConIFA) – AMI Newswire – Jun 21, 2018

2017

Suction dredge mining lawsuit (Cascadia Wildlands) – CBD – Jan 10, 2017
UW Bothell + Cascadia College hate-free pledge – Bothell-Kenmore Reporter – Jan 18, 2017
Cascadia Composers concerts – Oregon ArtsWatch – Jan 20, 2017
Seattle protest signs (Cascadia Now) – Seattle Globalist – Jan 20, 2017
Into the Heart of Cascadia – Powder Magazine – Feb 21, 2017
UW/UBC Cascadia Urban Analytics Cooperative + Microsoft $1M – UW Today / Seattle Times – Feb 23, 2017
Canada to Cascadia – Source Weekly – Mar 29, 2017
The Road to Cascadia – American Culture magazine – Apr 13, 2017
Secession movements thriving – OPB – Mar 23, 2017
Cascadia bikeways comparison – Sightline – May 1, 2017
Four Secession Concepts – Willamette Week – May 17, 2017
Brad Smith on Cascadia Innovation Corridor + life sciences – GeekWire – May 23, 2017
WSDOT bullet train feasibility study – KUOW – Jul 26, 2017
Cascadia bullet train, This Week in Seattle – GeekWire – Aug 5, 2017
Cascadia tech leaders + mixed reality – Business in Vancouver – Sep 12, 2017
Microsoft backs Seattle-Vancouver high-speed rail study – GeekWire – Sep 12, 2017
Cascadia Innovation Corridor new partnerships – Canada NewsWire – Sep 12, 2017
Polytechnics join Cascadia Corridor workforce effort – Aviation Today – Sep 13, 2017
Cascadia Films (Sequim) – Peninsula Daily News – Sep 24, 2017
Wolf-killing protocol lawsuit (Cascadia Wildlands) – CBD – Sep 25, 2017
Cascadia CleanTech Accelerator federal grant – Xconomy – Sep 26, 2017
Catalonia to Cascadia – LA Progressive – Oct 4, 2017
Cascadia fans 24-hour game-a-thon charity – MLSsoccer.com – Nov 1, 2017
Cascadia Herbals tincture – Portland Mercury – Nov 1, 2017
Cascadia Now defends ‘the Doug’ – CHS Blog – Nov 4, 2017
Finn Wilcox review – Cascadia Weekly – Nov 7, 2017
Meet Cascadia Underground – GeekWire – Dec 5, 2017
Cascadia Venture Acceleration Network MOU – GlobeNewswire – Dec 8, 2017
Cascadia rising: new group to rival Silicon Valley – GeekWire – Dec 8, 2017
Amtrak DuPont derailment and Cascadia high-speed rail – Next City – Dec 21, 2017

2016

A Bioregional Declaration of Interdependence (Yes Cascadia) – Seattle Weekly – Nov 16, 2016
#CalExit gets Northwesterners dreaming of Cascadia – GeekWire – Nov 15, 2016
Oregon residents launch independence bid – The Independent – Nov 11, 2016
BC + WA create Cascadia Innovation Corridor MOU – Access Washington – Sep 20, 2016
Gates, Nadella tout corridor – Seattle Times / CBC / GeekWire – Sep 20, 2016
Pulitzer for Kathryn Schulz Cascadia fault piece – Washington Post – Apr 18, 2016
Cascadia or Canada? – SeattlePI – Nov 15, 2016
Fallout Cascadia mod – PCGamesN – May 24, 2016
Is this booming NW land a paradise or disaster waiting – LA Times – Jun 6, 2016
Cascadia: The Other Lost Continent I & II – Ancient Origins – Aug 25, 2016
Cascadia Candle Co lidar candles – Digital Trends – Jun 28, 2016
Car-sharing in Cascadia – Sightline – May 10, 2016
Five myths about the Pacific Rim – Sacramento Bee – Apr 29, 2016
Cascadia Art Museum – Seattle DJC – Nov 7, 2016
How the West Coast Could Dump Trump – OZY – Nov 13, 2016
Inslee Resilient Washington subcabinet (Cascadia Rising) – Access Washington – Nov 4, 2016
Cascadia Unite! Trudeau and Gates – KUOW – Sep 19, 2016
Cascadia: A sanctuary – Crosscut – Nov 21, 2016
Word Nerd: Cascadia – Coast Weekend – Sep 1, 2016
Vancouver and Seattle seek to come closer – The Economist – Oct 13, 2016
Trans-Cascadia Experience – Pinkbike – Nov 19, 2016
Cascadia Mushrooms – WhatcomTalk – Jun 7, 2016
6 maps of West Coast secession – OregonLive – Nov 10, 2016
Whatcom County planning – Cascadia Weekly – Jan 19, 2016
Next Big Tech Corridor? – New York Times – Oct 2, 2016
Should CA/OR/WA join Canada? – Seattle Times – Nov 15, 2016
SoulFood Coffeehouse Yes Cascadia event – Redmond Reporter – Dec 2, 2016

2015

Oil export change stirs concerns – Cascadia Weekly – Jan 5, 2016
FBI harassing activists in Cascadia (megaloads) – Earth Island Journal – Jan 19, 2015
High Speed Train Portland-Vancouver – HuffPost Canada – Jan 22, 2015
Cascadia secession not as easy as it sounds – SF Chronicle – Feb 13, 2015
Whale action, Cascadia Research Cooperative – Chinook Observer – Apr 13, 2015
Meet ‘The Dougie’ coin – News1130 – Apr 29, 2015
Cascadia poetry anthology – Vancouver Sun – May 29, 2015
Cascadia NW Arts & Music Fest – The Stranger – Jul 30, 2015
Timbers-Sounders rivalry – Sounder At Heart – Aug 28, 2015
Cascadia: state of mind, bioregion of beer – The Province – Sep 29, 2015
Lummi Youth kayaktivists – Cascadia Weekly – Oct 27, 2015
Cascadia Art Museum opens – LA Times – Nov 3, 2015
Cascadia flag on IOOF building – La Grande Observer – Nov 11, 2015
Mitkof Island timber sale canceled (Cascadia Wildlands) – SitNews – Nov 20, 2015
Refillable containers in Cascadia – Sightline – Dec 3, 2015
Danny MacAskill “Cascadia” video – Bicycling – Dec 11, 2015

2014

Denis Hayes and Cascadia Sustainability – Triple Pundit – Feb 2, 2014
Is Cascadia the new Quebec? – Seattle Globalist – Feb 21, 2014
Democracy or Corporatocracy (Cascadian Farm mention) – The Ecologist – Feb 25, 2014
What Is Cascadia, Anyway? – HuffPost Canada – Mar 12, 2014
Burn, destroy, wreck, kill (soccer) – SB Nation – Mar 26, 2014
Tilikum Crossing name chosen over Cascadia Crossing – KPTV – Apr 16, 2014
Reset of Imperialist Borders – News Junkie Post – May 5, 2014
Jewels in the Cascadia Crown – Black And Red United – May 7, 2014
Fashioning Cascadia Sold Out – Portland Mercury – May 28, 2014
Elliott State Forest privatization – The Oregonian – May 16, 2014
Soccer as Spectacle – New York Times – May 20, 2014
Agalloch Reluctant Kings (Cascadian black metal) – Exclaim! – May 23, 2014
Cascadia Clip thermal break – Treehugger – Jun 27, 2014
World Cup for Countries That Don’t Exist – The Atlantic – Jun 27, 2014
Seneca Jones protest (Cascadia Forest Defenders) – Coos Bay World – Jul 8, 2014
Cascadia teams PDL championship – Tucson Sentinel – Jul 23, 2014
Noe Venable “Cascadia” album – SFGate – Jul 23, 2014
BLM timber (Cascadia Wildlands) – KUOW – Jul 29, 2014
Cascadia Dirt Cup rounds 2-4 + finale – Pinkbike – Aug-Oct 2014
Washington State Flag Sucks (Doug flag) – Seattle Weekly – Aug 26, 2014
Huckleberry Wolf Pack – CBD – Aug 28, 2014
American separatists on Scotland – Business Insider – Sep 17, 2014
Alaskan Nationalist on Scotland – Slate – Sep 17, 2014
From Scotland to Cascadia – Humanosphere – Sep 18, 2014
Ethel Lane House (Cascadia Green Building Council) – Daily Courier – Oct 7, 2014
Cascadian Farm Bee Friendlier – New York Times – Oct 12, 2014
GPS poll Cascadian Divide – OregonLive – Aug 26, 2014
Black IPA / Cascadian dark ale – San Diego Reader – Oct 29, 2014
People Who Wouldn’t Mind PNW as Own Country (Rainingman) – Vice – Sep 3, 2014
Americans for independence from America – USA Today – Nov 4, 2014
Secessionist Movements Refuse to Die – HuffPost – Nov 6, 2014
Americans for Independence – NPR – Nov 15, 2014
Cascadia Summit at Startup Week – Business in Vancouver – Nov 17, 2014
Cascadia Forest Defenders capitol protest – Statesman Journal – Dec 9, 2014

2013

Cascadia: The Life and Breath of the World – Univ. of Hawaii – Jul 2013
New Cascadian National Soccer Team / VIVA Cup – Seattle Weekly – Jul 29, 2013
Towards Cascadian Food – Olympia Times – Jul 18, 2013
Camp Cascadia civil disobedience – Portland Mercury – Jul 15, 2013
Cascadia: Uncle Sam Joins Socialists for Soccer? – American Thinker – Jul 2013
Cascadia’s Appalachian Roots – Olympia Times – Jul 8, 2013
O’ Cascadia: Forget the Fourth, Fly the Fir – Seattle Weekly – Jul 3, 2013
My Return to Cascadia – Brewpublic – Jun 10, 2013
Cascadian Calm / Seattle Freeze – Olympia Times – Jun 6, 2013
The Cascadiad – J.D. Mitchell – Jun 2, 2013
Cascadian Cuisine Initiative – World Travel Association – May 7, 2013
Cascadia – Dan Roberts – Apr 26, 2013
Cascadia Calls (poem) – Michael Quigg – Apr 26, 2013
Whom do you Hang with Map – NPR – Apr 17, 2013
Cascadia’s Bumpy Recovery – Seattle Times – Apr 6, 2013
CDP: A Cascadia Dark Poem – Screaming Robots – Apr 4, 2013
Dollar bill flow map – Fast Co.Exist – Mar 18, 2013
Buzzword of the Month: Cascadia – BC Business – Mar 4, 2013
In the 18: Cascadia Pride (CAFF NF-Board application) – GoalWA – Feb 21, 2013
Honesty Required in Cascadia Cup Discussions – Forbes – Jan 24, 2013
Cascadia Exhibit at Reach Gallery – US Consulate – Jan 22, 2013
Cascadia and Coal – Vancouver Sun – Jan 21, 2013

2012

Explorations of Cascadian Cartography video – Pretty Good Guy Productions – Dec 10, 2012
Decolonizing Cascadia 7th conference – UBC – Nov 16-17, 2012
Welcome to Cascadia – Rebecca Bollwitt – Aug 24, 2012
Cascadia Rising! – Portland Monthly – Jul 2012
BBC day in images (Timbers fan) – BBC – Jul 4, 2012
10 Movements to Secede – io9 – Jul 4, 2012
Portland Giant Tifo – Guardian UK – Jun 28, 2012
Cascadia: United under a Symbol – MLS Reserves – Jun 27, 2012
Cascadia Now! advocates culture shift – Seattle Times – May 24, 2012
The Cascadia Cup: On the CNMT – 79 Forever – 2012
Washington Rules – Joe Korbuszewski – Feb 9, 2012
Ecolopolis 5: High Speed Rail in Cascadia – PSU – 2012

2011

The Connected States of America – New York Times – Jul 2, 2011
Citizen’s Guide to Seattle Beer: Republic of Cascadia – Seattle Met – May 2011
The Republic of Cascadia (#8 aspiring nations) – TIME – Jan 10, 2011
Secession Digression – Willamette Week – Jan 5, 2011
History Makes Cascadia Cup Unique – Sounder At Heart – Jan 1, 2011

2010

Modern Day Secessionists map – Mother Jones – Nov 8, 2010
Investing in Cascadia – The Daily Profit – Nov 30, 2010
Cascadia: The New Frontier – BC Business – 2010
Dreams of Unified Northwest Halted at Border – New York Times – 2010
A Vision for Cascadia – America 2050 – 2010
Hopworks Secession Black IPA – Beernews – Feb 17, 2010
A World away from Texas – The Guardian – Feb 28, 2010
Cascadia, Where Moral Hand-Wringing is an Olympic Sport – Crosscut – Mar 1, 2010

2009

Colombie-Britannique : Bienvenue en Cascadie ! – L’actualité – Nov 17, 2009. (See French-coverage gap-fill above.)
Urban Cascadia goes to China – Crosscut – 2009
The Cascadian Dream – Crosscut – 2009
Fleece to the Opera – Vancouver Sun – 2009
Utopia: Are we there yet? – Crosscut – 2009
Envisioning Cascadia PAFAC – Jul-Nov 2009
Is Cascadia’s Train Coming In? – Crosscut – May 19, 2009
Ecolopolis 4.0 – PSU – 2009

2008

Cascadian Independence Project – Seattle Sinner – 2008
Ecolopolis 3.0 – PSU – 2008
Cascadia: The Elusive Utopia (book) – Douglas Todd – 2008
Pacific Coast Leaders Regional Collaboration – WA Governor’s Office – 2008
The American Secessionist Streak – LA Times – Sep 2008
Cascadia Series 1-3 – Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun – May 6-8, 2008
Annals of Pacific Northwest Secession – Crosscut – May 6, 2008
Venting Nickels Suggests Secession – Seattle Times – Apr 18, 2008
Super Natural Northern Cascadia? – Times Colonist – Feb 18, 2008
Most Likely to Secede – Good Magazine – Jan 2008
Choose where you Live Carefully – Seattle Times – 2008
Branding Cascadia (PDF) – P.J. Smith, SFU – 2008

2006-2007

Cascadia: More than a Dream – Vancouver Sun – 2007
NGO Transborder Organizations (PDF) – Frontera Norte – 2007
Cascadia and the End of the Nation-State – Sparke, UW – 2007
Cascadia Ecolopolis 2.0 (PDF) – Ethan Seltzer – 2006
Divided we Stand – CounterPunch – Dec 20, 2006
Welcome to the Evergreen Revolution – The Martlet – Nov 9, 2006
Coming together to Ponder Pulling Apart – Philadelphia Inquirer – Nov 2006
Free Cascadia – Eugene Weekly – Sep 9, 2006
Cascadia Rising – Vancouver Review – 2006

2001-2005

Reading the Region: Aggressive Regionalism – UW CSPN – ~2006
Cascadian Adventures (book chapter) – Alan Artibise – 2005
Time to Revive Cascadia – The Tyee – 2005
The Man who Invented Ecotopia (Callenbach interview) – Seattle Weekly – 2005
Eco-Cult: Revisiting Ecotopia 30 Years Later – Pat Joseph – Jun 2005
Cascadia: Getting to Know your Bioregion (PDF) – Step Back Collective – 2005
Welcome to Cascadia – The Oregonian – Nov 14, 2004
Republic, Bioregion, Utopia or Commonwealth? – Republic of Cascadia site – ~2004
What or where is Cascadia? – Republic of Cascadia site – ~2004
Western Regionalism: Views on Cascadia – Canada-US Law Journal – 2004
Cascading Concepts of Cascadia – Patrick J. Smith – 2002

1996-2000

The Politics of Resentment (book) – Philip Resnick, UBC Press – 2000
Of Poetry and Plumbing – Papademetriou & Meyers – 2000
Baseball Season Sets off Cascadia Dreams – Vancouver Sun – Aug 3, 1999
Emerging Cascadia – Christian Science Monitor – Jul 26, 1999
Bioregional Basis of Forest Certification – David Simpson – Oct 7, 1998
Vancouver and Cascadia – Robert Kaplan, Atlantic Monthly – 1998
Connecting Cascadia’s Communities – Seattle Times – Jul 14, 1998
Trans-State Entities – Relyea, Geopolitics – 1998
The Rain Forests of Home – Island Press – 1997
Cascadia: An Emerging Regional Model (book chapter) – Artibise, Moudon, Seltzer – 1997
Politicians a Missing Cascadian Link – Puget Sound Business Journal – 1997
Metropolis Unbound – The American Prospect – 1997
America’s Crackup – National Review – Jul 28, 1997
Cascadia and WestCan – Independence Now! – Bob Orrick – ~1996
The Idea of Cascadia (PDF) – Donald K. Alper, Journal of Borderlands Studies – Fall 1996
Cascadian Adventures manuscript – Artibise – 1996

Up to 1995

The Cascadian Flag: It Flows as it Flies – David McCloskey – 1995
Achieving Sustainability in Cascadia – Artibise – 1995
Cascadia: The New Binationalism – Schell and Hamer – 1995
Toward Sustainable Urbanization on Mainstreet Cascadia – UW – 1996
Trade, Investment and the New Regionalism – David Edgington – 1995
BC’s future may not lie with ‘Old Canada’ – WSJ – Jun 9, 1995
Welcome to Cascadia – The Economist – May 21, 1994
Northwest’s Economy Defies Borders – Chicago Tribune – Aug 1, 1994
Cascadia – Janet Johnson, Seattle University News – Spring 1994
Cascadia: A Great Green Land – David McCloskey – 1994
The New Pacific journal + flag contest – 1993
“Cascadia” Borders on Future – Karl Schoenberger, LA Times – 1993
Cascadia: A state of (various) mind(s) – William Henkel, Chicago Review – 1993
What is the Future of Cascadia? – Schell and Hamer, Discovery Institute – 1993
PNWER multi-state approach – Alan Bluechel – Winter 1993
Cascadia: The North Pacific West – Paul Schell – 1992
We’re outta here – Common Cause Magazine – Winter 1992
A Green Island in a Sea of Envy – Ian Gill, Georgia Straight – Jun 1992
Et In Cascadia, Ego – The Economist – Feb 29, 1992
Welcome to the Republic of Pacifica – Vancouver Sun – Mar 7, 1991
Cascadia – Eileen Quigley, The New Pacific – Winter-Spring 1990
Nine Nations of North America – Joel Garreau – 1981
Ecotopia / Ecotopia Emerging – Ernest Callenbach – 1975/1981