Replicable & Scalable Ideas

Creating new narratives for how to live well in Salmon Nation

Determined People, Inspired Stories

What Works, Local Economies

July 10, 2025

This BC-based vertical farm is growing fast. One reason: tariff and sovereignty threats to Canada.

Indigenous, Salmon

June 26, 2025

The over 47,000 acres of ancestral lands double Yurok’s land holdings and includes the Blue Creek Salmon Sanctuary.

Local Economies, From Magic Canoe

June 24, 2025

Seattle hosted the first-ever bioregional finance conference (BioFi), to strategize ways of moving money toward efforts regenerating the environment. Here’s what happened.

What Works, Indigenous

June 12, 2025

How Sisters Sage brings activism, entrepreneurship, and First Nations plant medicine into the bath.

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.

From Magic Canoe

This year, Kh’asheechtlaa, Louise Brady, a Tlingit matriarch, along with residents of Sitka, watched the extraordinary return of the herring, an abundance that once sustained Indigenous people for millennia.

By Spencer B. Beebe

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.

Events

July 31, 2025
– August 5, 2025

The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is the proud host of the Annual Tribal Canoe Journeys for 2025, and they are ramping up to welcome everyone to this celebration and Potlatch.

We're inviting you to join the Journey

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