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Welcome to Cascadia Commons. We, the members of Cascadia Commons, hereby form this friendly-society to represent the Cascadian Commons, otherwise known as the Cascadian Bioregion. What is a Commons? Commons [kom-uh ns] /ˈkɒm ənz/, noun. - belonging equally to, or shared alike by, two or more or all in question: common property; common interests.
- pertaining or belonging equally to an entire community, nation, or culture; public: a common language or history; a common water-supply system.
- a tract of land owned or used jointly by the residents of a community, usually a central square or park in a city or town.
- joint; united: a common defense.
- the community, the public or the common people.
Cascadia Commons is an umbrella organization seeking to network with businesses, governments, and non-profit organizations bringing sustainability to the region. We seek to form a bioregional congress that supports life-place living, neighborhood revitalization projects, improving the capacity of local co-housing and cooperative businesses, developing a bioregional food network, support efforts encouraging communities and individuals to utilize innovative and sustainable technologies, restore watersheds, and create the Cascadian Commons, a community land trust that will ensure the survival of our great region and maintain Cascadia as one of the greatest places on Earth. To learn more about our organization, please visit the following links to organizations that are inspiring our efforts: - http://www.nrp.org. City of Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Project is an alternative means to improve urban neighborhoods other than the traditional top-down, poverty decentralizing system used by most municipal planning agencies. The Minneapolis NRP is an inspirational model for Cascadia Commons.
- http://www.minnpost.com/. The Minnpost is a Minnesotan non-profit online news media source providing the latest news, sports and weather to its members. The Cascadian will follow a similar model, but will include a networking site for professionals involved in the sustainability movement of the Pacific Northwest.
- http://www.friendlysocieties.co.uk/ Friendly societies were once a popular form of local government that predates the welfare/nation-state. There are still a few friendly societies in existence in the UK and Friendly Societies.uk is a reference guide to friendly societies in the United Kingdom. The friendly society model is also another inspiration model to Cascadia Commons.
- http://www.bioregional-congress.org/. Another goal of Cascadia Commons is to be the Cascadian representative for the Bioregional Congress. The Congress convened in Cascadia/British Columbia in 1988.
- http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_society. A society where a combination of social and media networks shape its prime mode of organization.
- http://www.gprc.org/buffalocommons.html. The Buffalo Commons is a sustainability and economy restoration effort, as well as an effort to re-establish and re-connect prairie wildland reserves and ecological corridors large enough for bison and all other native prairie wildlife to survive and roam freely, over great, connected distances, while simultaneously restoring the health and sustainability of local communities.
- http://openmoney.org/top/introduction.html. Open Money is a mean of exchange freely available to all, and its purpose is to bring together and organize people and resources in a more equitable and communicative manner. Cascadia Commons is participating in a local Community Way program to raise funds for programs and charities dedicated to sustainability in the Cascadian Bioregion.
- http://www.communityprosper.org/. Community Way connects local businesses, charitable organizations (COs), and individuals in a mutually beneficial three-way partnership. Community Way allows local businesses to attract the loyalty of people who support COs without any up-front cash costs, provides COs with a powerful fundraising tool, and makes it easy for citizens to support COs without losing any of their buying power. The Community Prosper website will also serve as a new social networking website, which will be unveiled July 27th, 2008.
CASCADIA COMMONS WILL DISPLAY TO THE WORLD THAT CASCADIA IS THE LEADER IN THE SUSTAINABILITY MOVEMENT. JOIN US. NEXT GENERAL MEETING: JULY 29th, 2008 AT 7 PM AT MADISON'S GRILL 1109 SE MADISON AVE., PORTLAND, OR 97214.If you cannot attend in person, please send an email to
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