About us
Extending from southeast Alaska to northern California, and representing 75 "ecoregions," Cascadia is named for the waters which pours from the region's many mountains.
An "ecoregion" is another way of saying a "regional ecological system," calibrated to a contiguous watershed, and it's our aspiration to help Cascadia's residents calibrate their economic footprint to their respective ecoregion.
We are residents, natives, skaters, hackers, parents, and activists from the Cascadia region.
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We have a practical plan for building our solution from the bottom, rather than rely upon large institutional partners - a plan that funds itself using money that ordinarily goes towards enriching large corporations located outside the Cascadia region.
Fees which are ordinarily paid to expensive marketplaces are kept by the "watershed marketplace," and how fees are reinvested are voted upon by the community itself.
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The tip of the spear is simple: help individuals increase their household income, making it as easy to launch a home-based business as creating a marketplace listing, and reward them for buying and selling with others from within their ecoregion.
Ordinarily, expensive transaction fees leave the ecoregion, never to return, but our approach retains those fees in an ecoregional community account.
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Verified members of each ecoregion are then called upon to vote upon how these funds are reinvested back into their respective community.