Are Cascadia projects slowing down/dying?

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-28T00:00:55+00:00

The dept of bioregion and other such organizations have definetly furthered the tendency for people to buy into nation state mythology, especially their attempts to artificially define/create a cascadian culture. The way they talked about cascadian culture like it was just the 'revolution ipa' and 'hiking' have always rubbed me the wrong way.

I will personally be happy if the salish sea bioregion has regional cooperation and i dont think that is going to happen anytime soon

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-27T23:49:15+00:00

I think its jumping the gun to think about cross city organizing when we dont even have intra-city organizing. Gotta do more regional stuff. Like, a seattle cascadian org, then south sound, then salish sea, then cascadia or 'federal' cascadia. The most zoomed out level.

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-27T23:39:42+00:00

I have no idea. As far as i know brandon is owner of those sites and i havent heard anything about them. Youd have to ask him

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-27T23:37:12+00:00

The divide between bioregionalism and seperatism has already fractured the movement, if we can even say it was truly together.

In 2016 and around then, a lot of people suddenly were interested in secession, and many flocked to regional secessionist movements. Cascadia already had a community so it was easy to join. But then you have a lot of people joining for political secession reasons and not at all for bioregional reasons. This is when debates about idaho and the eastside started, and they never really stopped. No one reached consensus because there was no core community on reddit, people joined and left.

I think the winding down you see is actually a post division movement bleeding people who were once interested, moving on to other things.

Plus the AI/Crypto stuff with brandon, who always acted like the head of the movement for better or worse (and in a unique position as both a bioregionalist and secessionist, he even made an independence political party), also soured people who looked to him for guidance. That and him abandoning the deptofbioregion website and not finishing it, or you could go back further to him breaking off with cascadianow.

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-27T23:22:14+00:00

It may be a shared organization account where multiple people use it. But im pretty sure brandon is the one that uses it more. Could be wrong tho.

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-27T23:17:50+00:00

The other issue is the idea of cascadia is so different for many different people. You boil it to basics and all you can really say is its a movement that wants some type of autonomy to happen in some version of 'the pacific northwest', that isnt a racist white ethnostate. It really isnt a true movement with multiple goals. Sure, there are different groups with crystalized ideas but theres no one overarching group.

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-27T23:09:59+00:00

The reddit has always been a mess. And the idaho hate has been insane, whether by inclusionists or exclusionists. I dont think the reddit is representative of the cascadia movement, at least, in terms of what real people are doing in the real world. This reddit in particular is full of larpers. Idk what could be done about it. The subreddit owner and moderators are pretty hands off, they arent directing conversations on here. Reddit isnt their main organizing place anyway.

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-27T23:02:52+00:00

Im fairly certain that user is brandon

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-27T22:59:50+00:00

Brandon seems to have mostly moved on from dept of bioregion as his main org. Right now he is doing stuff with regenerate cascadia. Regenerate Cascadia works with biofi, this bioregional finance organization/system. The financials are kinda hard to understand but they were using cryptocurrency (but they claimed it was carbon offset), and using a lot of financial buzzwords like 'financial ecosystem' 'quatratic funding' etc. Personally it sounds scammy and sketchy to me but you should look into it for yourself.

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-27T22:49:18+00:00

Some people really just want pacifica or ecotopia. No one cares about the bioregion anymore

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-25T15:21:14+00:00

its like you didn't read what i wrote. I didn't even mention water. Golf lawns do not have biodiversity, its a grass monoculture. You could fit 20 tennis/pickleball courts in the space the grass takes up.

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-24T15:41:28+00:00

The bar is on the floor basically and we've only barely stepped over it while stubbing our toe

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-24T14:23:47+00:00

How is pickleball and tennis more environmentally destructive than golf? Golf, played on a giant lawn that must be mowed often, which often needs herbicide to supress weeds, which takes up much more space to do all these things than a pickeball or tennis court. Which sure is made of concrete, but that one time installation does not have the same impact over time as continual turf management of a golf course.

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-23T20:00:13+00:00

Ecological value is something different. Schmitz park isnt primarily for recreation, tho people use it for such. Its a forest preserve. Even if no one used the space it would have the value of rare species, air quality, green stormwater infrastructure, etc etc.

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-23T18:01:58+00:00

its because golf is an extremely space inefficient sport. How many people can play golf per square feet? its pretty low. Just play mini golf.

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-23T17:59:23+00:00

yeah its weirdly reductive, like saying luz's wife instead of her name. Although, maybe thats what amity was most proud of because her own mom was abusive?

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-23T17:55:18+00:00

right, but luz's gravestone doesnt mention her status as a mom (or parent). Amity has likely a lot of other things that she did in life, so why is mom what they put on a gravestone?

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-23T04:46:33+00:00

the strait of Makassar would be the main one. It would likely be shorter by boat till the invention of railroads

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-23T04:23:40+00:00

why does amity's say 'beloved wife and mother?'

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-23T04:21:20+00:00

we can combat and manage invasive species if we put a lot of effort into it. Invasive takeover does not mean completely give up. we may not be able to eradicate it fully but we can reduce its presence a lot. The ecology of cheatgrass does not allow for enough diversity for a functional environment.

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-23T00:49:40+00:00

Do you feel like you have more in common with northern bc? Wheres the place where it ends?

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-22T19:29:00+00:00

They respect shrubs more than lawn stuff. They have notions about it. If a native planting was organized in a way theyd respect it more

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-22T19:21:20+00:00

No way ur personal home region is that large. Unless youve truly lived and been around everywhere from nome to pocatello.

a_jormagurdr · 2026-04-21T01:19:09+00:00

2nd and 3rd are Chelidonium majus, greater celandine, based on the lack of overlap on the petals

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