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

The Cascadian Sustainability Passport project had it's kickoff on 6/27/2009 and is building steam. Please visit the website to find out more.

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

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

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

Cascadia Convergence 2007 took place in October at the Seattle Center. The theme was ‘Climate Action and Citizen Engagement' in concert with Mayor Greg Nickels' Climate Action Summit. These two events and all the others in GreenOctober combined to make a local, regional and national statement of high visibility about the urgency of climate change and sustainability.