Tools for a more resilient Cascadia.
The future will not be like the past. Challenges are here, and they will only increase in severity, frequency, and complexity. It's going to be rough either way, but we'll fare better if we face it head on.
The Pacific Northwest has organizations doing excellent work on energy policy, disaster preparedness, and community resilience, but there are substantial gaps between them. The earthquake preparedness people and the clean energy people live in separate worlds. Utility regulatory processes shape what communities pay and what gets built, but those processes are nearly impossible to follow from the outside. The people doing the hardest work on the ground, many of them for decades, don't have the tools they need to engage with the systems that govern their communities.
We are not re-inventing the wheel. We are equipping the people in the trenches with what they need for a new era of change.
We build tools that make it possible to understand the systems shaping our region. We work at the intersections between think tanks, advocacy groups, and communities on the ground, connecting people and sharpening the tools they need to navigate a landscape that's changing faster than anyone planned for.
A comprehensive analysis of three interlocking crises facing the Pacific Northwest electricity system: demand growth, institutional fragmentation, and the clean energy transition.
Learn moreA four-day gathering at River Farm, 80 acres east of Bellingham. ~60 people working on climate and societal change. Futures exercises, Cascadia-specific sessions, and time in the woods.
Learn moreA tabletop game that turns disaster preparedness into something you do with your neighbors, not a checklist you dread. PNW-grounded scenarios help communities discover the resilience skills they already have.
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