Welcome to Cascadia. Know your home.

The Cascadia Education Project (CEP) is a 501c3 nonprofit based out of Portland, Oregon that works to build and strengthen the connections between the different people who live here, between culture and landscape, and between groups that work to create a deeper understanding of how the land here connects us in countless ways. Through our projects and programs we offer educational, participatory, and collaborative opportunities to all who wish to foster a local culture and ecology that will serve as foundations for a sustainable and holistic reinhabitation of the bioregion.

Our Latest News:

Commoner – A Film by Carolina Pfister

Commoner is a feature film in the making, currently in script revision phase. Inspired by the director’s own immigration journey and life-long interest in civic engagement and community building, as well as the seminal utopian-dystopian book Ecotopia. Read more…

Mother Earth School

We’ve begun fiscally sponsoring Mother Earth School. Mother Earth School enlivens education through deep nature connection for children, families and educators to inspire social and ecological renewal. Read more…

Soil Building using the Lasagna Method

See how we transformed a 12x15ft area of backyard grass into a thriving garden plot using the lasagna garden method. Collaboration between several CEP projects and neighborhood stores yielded. Read more…

Alley Allies Toolkit Now Available

Are you a resident with an interest in improving an alley or other public space? Foster Green Ecodistrict has put together a step-by-step guide for completing your own alley project with strategies to help you meet your goals for your project, information about grants, templates and other resources. Read more…

Our Newest Projects:

Prayer Walk for the Wolf

An Indigenous-led walk from Portland to Boise sending prayers and raising awareness for the wolf in Cascadia.

Facilitating the making of a city that meets the needs of everyone within it, and which heals the earth as well —

using open-source GIS.

Providing cr eative change-makers with a high integrity, high accountability environment to launch self-directed projects through residency and coaching.

A powerful calendaring tool has arrived for community building. Every ActivateHub has a participatory list of Events, Organizations, Venues, and the ability to merge pre-existing calendars.

Interested? We’re looking for volunteers to help us. Learn more.

We’re looking for projects to support. Learn more.

What We Do:

Networking and Funding for Collaboration:

How do we build an interconnected and resilient bioregion? Through a watershed-based approach, CEP interfaces projects, communities, and watershed organizations to identify collaborative opportunities and resources for their startup and development.