![]() Since talking to you I have changed the Doug to fit closer to the image I had in 1995 in Hungary when I was homesick for my forests in Oregon. I am the designer of the Cascadian flag called the Doug. Several years ago I created a yahoo group to explore what Cascadia could be and what it is: Cascadian_Bioregionalism. My first version was posted on my website in 1997. I came up with it when I was living in Hungary and was homesick for Cascadia in 1994. It is a simple flag of tree colors (blue, white and green) with a conifer tree in the middle. ![]() I have been meaning to submit my version of a Cascadian flag for several years. I have seen some four or five different proposals for a Cascadia flag (each linked to a different concept of Cascadia, at least detail-wise). The concept of Cascadia has been around for a few years, but only so far as an idea for engendering cross-border co-operation, not as a sovereignist movement. ![]() Keywords: united states | independence | cascadia | washington | oregon |Ĭascadia, an area that slops over the Canadian border into British Columbia and beyond in some definitions, has several competing flags. We are all the Cascadian, and together, we are the Cascadia movement.This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website Cascadia We encourage every community, business, organization and individual to modify it for their own eco-region or cause, to help share the idea, around the common principles and values laid out in our Theory of Change. It is a grassroots, and people powered brand for every person interested in protecting our bioregion, improving our livelihood, and helping make the world a better place. Symbols pervade our life at every level that we do, and it’s more important than ever that we also share some symbols into the world that are able to represent our values and principles. The Doug flag is an open source, not for profit symbol for the Cascadia bioregion, and the Cascadia movement. The Cascadia Doug Flag is a symbol that represents our bioregion and movement. With so many brands now being manufactured for our consumption, with global climate crises, and a rise of intolerance, now, more than ever, it is important that as citizens of this world, we have also have our own community inspired and created symbols, that can support the issues and causes we need, around the shared values and principles laid out here, that are driven by a love of place and our neighbors – something authentic, rather than rooted in a profit basis. Much like the Rainbow Flag, or the Occupy Fist, symbols can be an incredibly potent means for making a public and visible statement about the values and principles that we share and identify with. It is a gateway movement, that was created by people who live here, are from here, and both inspires those born here to protect what we love, and allows those moving here to hook in with something real, authentic and fun. We hope that as an open source symbol, every community, ecoregion, watershed, business and cause will adopt and adapt the Doug Flag to their own purposes.īy using the Doug Flag, and the green white and blue, we show a shared regional identity, and that we share common beliefs, dreams and principles. Cascadia is a movement that was born in the northwest throughout the 1980’s. It is not ‘the Cascadia flag’ but rather, one of thousands. All these symbols come together to symbolize what being Cascadian is all about. The lone-standing Douglas Fir symbolizes endurance, defiance, and resilience. The white represents snow and clouds, and the green represents the evergreen forests and fields of the Pacific Northwest. Our home is a place of continuous cascading waters flowing from the Pacific to the western slopes of the Rockies and Cascades where water cycles back to the Pacific. The Cascadia Doug flag is a symbol for our landscape and is a direct representation of the bioregion, and for our movement. Designed in 1994 by Portland native Alexander Baretich, the blue of the flag represents the moisture-rich sky above, and the Pacific Ocean, along with the Salish Sea, lakes, and inland waters. ![]()
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