An Evening at the Steam Plant: What's in your Bioregion?

Join us for an evening of strategy and bioregional visioning with Brandon Letsinger—longtime champion of Cascadia and founder of Cascadia Now!, Department of Bioregion, and co-convener of Regenerate Cascadia—a growing network of movements working to reimagine governance, finance, and economy from the bioregional scale.

Set inside the historic Georgetown Steam Plant—a relic of our fossil-fueled past and a community hub evolving toward reimagined futures—this gathering will follow Brandon’s nearly two-decade journey of grassroots organizing and systems thinking to build a movement grounded in the Cascadia bioregion.

Building on this year’s Science Fair theme, “Break the System,” we’ll explore the personal, political, and collective paths of bioregional movement-building—from early activism to the rise of translocal networks and a multi-year mobilization effort. Brandon will share key lessons, challenges, and the bold vision behind one of the most ambitious efforts to reshape how we relate to place, community, and the planet.

In a time of ecological crisis and economic uncertainty, bioregional finance offers a powerful alternative to centralized, extractive systems.

Rather than fueling global supply chains and pollution-intensive industries, bioregional finance aligns money with ecology—mobilizing resources to heal land, support local communities, and build regenerative, circular economies from the ground up.

At the same time, watershed regeneration offers a living blueprint for how we might restore our relationship with land, water, and one another. Watersheds are more than geographic units—they are ecological communities, cultural landscapes, and ancestral territories. Regenerating them means reviving the forests, wetlands, rivers, and soils that sustain life.

If you're new to Cascadia or have long been part of the movement, this evening is an invitation to come together and explore the ecological and cultural foundations of this place we call home: the Cascadia Bioregion.

Some of the questions we'll explore:

• What does it mean to live bioregionally in a time of ecological and societal transformation?
• How do we build coalitions across borders, identities, and belief systems?
• What comes after extractive economies, centralized power, and broken systems?

The Department of Bioregion and Regenerate Cascadia will be sharing their work at the this year's Science Fair on September 20-21, 2025. To learn more about this year's Science Fair, please visit: https://www.georgetownsteamplant.org/2025

To learn more about the Cascadia Bioregion, please visit: https://cascadiabioregion.org

To learn more about Regenerate Cascadia, please vist: https://regeneratecascadia.org