Vancouver's Leader in Transition toward Strong, Resilient, Complete Communities
Village engages individuals, neighbourhoods & organizations to take actions that build sustainable communities & have fun doing it. Join us!
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Regular activities:
Interested in participating in a VV garden? We have collaborative gardens/garden spaces in 5 neighbourhoods. Contact us at gardening@villagevancouver.ca. Gardening now in progress. New gardeners welcome (space allowing).
Kits Village Recycling Depot (Kits Community Centre) Next depot: Thursday, June 15th
Main St. Village monthly gatherings (1st Tuesdays Little Mountain Neighbourhood House) Currently on hold due to COVID
Permaculture Vancouver Meetups (3rd Wednesdays VV McBride Park Fieldhouse (sometimes elsewhere) Next meetup: Special date Thursday, July 29th
West End Community Potluck/WE Urban Garden Club (3rd Sundays West End Community Centre, in July and August 4th Thursdays - July 22nd and August 26th.
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So we meet again!
Democracy is a consociational reality whereby many open, social and political organizations vie for authority and agenda-setting to direct public policy. In Vancouver, we are 600,000 atoms in Brownian motion with no fact-based policy discussion and no competitive contention for leadership.
What we are creating here must also be created for NSV, a vibrant ferment of ideas and actions. While VV is grassroots, NSV is inter-associational. Both are enormously important in the democratic development of Vancouver, and BC. Both are also critical for sustainable development.
Consider what you see and learn here as a model for a very different sort of organizational association into which NSV could evolve.
Open and transparent, crowd-sourced, greater than the sum of its parts, and a political force that cannot be bought, co-opted, or derailed...easily.
A true democracy has many such touchpoints for people to engage and develop common bonds, a culture of trust, sharing synergies, and shared sacrifices.
It is going to take a while, but this is the only path to a healthy future.
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