Replicable & Scalable Ideas

Creating new narratives for how to live well in Salmon Nation

Determined People, Inspired Stories

Coastal Communities/Marine, Indigenous

June 3, 2025

Hundreds gathered at Qualicum Bay, on Vancouver Island, to fight to remove open-net fish farms from the coastal waters of British Columbia.

Collective Learning, Indigenous

May 31, 2025

With public programming on the chopping block, here are our favorite PBS-supported films about Indigenous communities, situated in Salmon Nation.

Indigenous, Salmon

April 1, 2025

Last year, tribal nations in Oregon and California won a decades-long fight for the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story.

What Works, Housing, Indigenous

May 9, 2025

An ingenious collaboration by shíshálh Nation and Renewal Development shows what can be done.

Coastal Communities/Marine

April 15, 2025

Enjoy these 7-minute audio portals to science and mystery in Southeast Alaska.

From Magic Canoe

Sparrowhawk Native Plants helps gardeners build backyard habitats, while helping local partners flourish, too.

By Griffin O’Neill

Discover Ideas/The Tyee

From Alaska to California, people are creating successful enterprises that are low carbon, attuned to the ecology, and locally rooted. They’re employing, training, producing, and sustaining. Here you’ll find regular reports on what works for the bioregional economy we need.

Resources

A section devoted to relevant books, podcasts, films, documentaries, reports, and other resources, recommended items that help us make sense of our bioregion and the world. It’s stuff we like and hope you will, too.

Upcoming Events

Change comes through connection. On the ground. In person. Together. Take a look at our list of local events and join us to celebrate and co-create lasting solutions within Salmon Nation.

Events

July 18, 2025
– July 20, 2025

Enjoy three days of song and dance, culminating in a walasit service and Friendship feast in Wallowa country.

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