BOB BENSON © 1977 Binda Colebrook Page 54 RAIN Spring 1986 Pacific Cascadia Bioregion Report On a rare iay cfpartiaC clearing clouds separate to reveal the Maritime Northwest. On the east, the Cascade Range protects itfront the thirsty Plateau. On the west is the Pacific. it/ A, __ ytA'. '^Of'U •fp I c S !Ur> /V '/V/i ' Southward the Si5fei}/ous ami Trinity A^s palisade the Maritime Northwest against the hare Brown hills and Burning plains of California. Northward, though maritime ciimote persists; agriculture ceases, turned Back hy mountains tfiot rise from the “Bioregion—a continuous geographic area seen in terms of similarities of plant and animal life and climatic and geological characteristics ... and a terrain of consciousness—a place and the ideas that have developed about how to live in that place." —^Peter Berg The Pacific Cascadia bioregion is that continuous geographic area roughly bounded by the Pacific Ocean and the Cascade mountains, from southwest Oregon to southwest British Columbia. The Pacific Cascadia Bioregion Report is our attempt to help further the "terrain of consciousness" in this place by tracking community-based efforts to enhance citizen participation, self- reliance, social justice, and ecological sustainability throughout the region. We hope the information provided here can serve both to increase networking within the region, and to provide useful models for those living in other bioregions. If you would like to report on a worthy project in your neck of the woods, please write to us. —FLS Manetary Peace Pedagogy The study of global problems has gradually begun to find its way into our institutions of higher learning in the last two decades, but there are still not many formal programs within universities with a planetary focus. Western Washington University in Bellingham has taken a step to advance this important area of study by establishing a Center for Global and Peace Education within the School of Education. The center does not receive direct funding from the university, but is seeking financial support from private donations and foundation grants. The center is currently pursuing three primary goals: 1) development and dissemination of curriculum and teaching models; 2) publication of an international journal on global and peace education studies; and 3) staging of an international conference to explore and promote peace and global awareness in education. The conference is planned for August of this year, to coincide with Expo '86 in Vancouver, B.C. As part of its effort to develop global curricula, the center has published a book called Global Mandate: Pedagogy for Peace, a collection of writings on human rights, the limits of technology, telecommunications, global economics, the environment, the arms race, and nuclear war. The book was edited by the directors of the center. Dr. Philip Vander Velde and Dr. Robert Hyung- Chan Kim, and is available from the center for $25.50. For more information, contact the Center for Global and Peace Education, School of Education, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225. Chinook Conference Sparks Green Activity “For the Life of the Earth,” a conference about the Green movement, was held last November at the Chinook Learning Center on Whidbey Island, Washington. The conference featured David Haenke, convenor of the first North American Bioregional Congress, Charlene Spretnak, co-author of Green Politics, and Thomas Berry, ecological
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