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By Chuck Collins



06 October, 2010

YES! Magazine

via countercurrents.org



How can Transition Towns and Common Security Clubs help us navigate a changing economy and environment?



“It is hard to imagine facing the future without my gang of neighbors,” said Laura Dudley, a member of a common security club in the Detroit area. “The whole media culture is telling us to keep… Continue

Added by David Allan on October 6, 2010 at 9:00am — 2 Comments

The problem of 'growth'

One minute video with David Suzuki:

http://interactive.nfb.ca/#/testtube

Added by David Allan on October 4, 2010 at 10:26am — No Comments

EcoNews by Guy Dauncey: SUSTAINABILITY - A NEW RENAISSANCE

When you hear the word “sustainability” being used on the bus, you know something’s happening.…

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Added by Village Vancouver on October 3, 2010 at 1:05pm — No Comments

Rookie Vegetable Gardner

Need some help in getting started. Any advice would be great. If anyone doesn't mind in coming over to my place to help get me started, that would be great. I could visit established gardens, etc. I live in Dunbar 604-228-1599 or cell 778-231-4014. I'd be able to help out with any 'community gardening' going on. I recently retired in June (high school teacher) and have time to get involved. Again I know very little, but bit by bit I'm turning into my father! Bill Magee in… Continue

Added by Bill Magee on October 3, 2010 at 9:22am — 2 Comments

Vancouver Tool Library

Hello everyone,





I'm currently in the process of creating the Vancouver Tool Library.



The Vancouver Tool Library (VTL) is a community resource dedicated to…

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Added by Chris Diplock on September 28, 2010 at 3:45pm — 2 Comments

Leading the Way to a Smarter Future

via otherwords.org (cc)



By Janet Redman

Moments of crisis offer two options: You can respond out of fear by hunkering down, arming yourself, and planning to shoot anyone that comes near your end-of-days outpost. Or you can embrace a smarter option by banding together and taking creative action toward a positive transition.



As our nation grapples with chronic unemployment and the growing negative effects of climate change, the good news is that the transition approach… Continue

Added by David Allan on September 28, 2010 at 12:31pm — No Comments

Skill Up, Party Down

via commondreams.org



Skill Up, Party Down: Transition Towns in a Changing World

Transition Towns plan a gentle descent from oil dependence—and have a blast in the process.



by Mason Inman

Ciaran Mundy, a successful high-tech entrepreneur with a Ph.D. in soil ecology, started a website to update people on all the “terrible news about climate change.” But after a while, he felt it wasn’t working—that it would never work. “It took me years to realize there’s no point… Continue

Added by David Allan on September 24, 2010 at 12:28pm — No Comments

Chickens Love Coffee Chaff

I sent an email to Maynard of Southland Farms and he suggested I join and speak to all the backyard chicken owners on this site.…



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Added by Suzie Lynne Ambrose on August 5, 2010 at 8:38am — 5 Comments

Farmers on 57th: growing living food

Gardens are a natural way for a community to come together: at the farmer’s garden on 57 and Cambie, people come to picnic, exercise, commune with the stars,

learn about gardening, sit in the garden, suntan and even the coyotes

drop in at dusk. Gardens are a dimension of our lives that affirm

life for all things.

Read more…

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Added by Kathie Wallace on July 16, 2010 at 3:42pm — No Comments

How Vancouver reclaimed the 2010 Olympics from IOC's dominator energy

International Olympic Committee (IOC), as a controlling dominator energy, cast a dark shadow over Vancouver during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. This third article on the topic explores

IOC’s attempt to manipulate and control the people and their Olympic

stories. http://ow.ly/2aORe…



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Added by Kathie Wallace on July 13, 2010 at 8:53am — No Comments

The Walk Away Movement





Join the walk away movement & dance …into the green beautiful. - Part 1/9



It’s simple: sing reciprocity of joy, gratitude, and beauty.



May we all bless-ed be! http://ow.ly/26Qg0 Please spread widely.…

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Added by Kathie Wallace on July 6, 2010 at 6:06pm — No Comments

Oh Canada! Canada Day

Canada

Day 2010 saw Vancouverites doing what we love to do: coming together to play

and celebrate being a community. Community celebrations like Canada Day are one

example of what Mark Lakeman of City Repair

in Portland, Oregon calls “placemaking” where people

claim their space in their community. Read more http://ow.ly/26qUQ…

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Added by Kathie Wallace on July 2, 2010 at 1:38pm — 1 Comment

Canopy helps re-claim caribou’s forest home: 170 million acres

This Agreement is the largest conservation initiative in the world at a time when less than 1/4 of the world’s original forests remain in the large tracts necessary to maintain the critical diversity of a functioning
forest. Read more http://ow.ly/26iFY

Added by Kathie Wallace on July 2, 2010 at 8:07am — No Comments

How we enter the new world



…no dominator energy allowed…just joy


Added by Kathie Wallace on June 30, 2010 at 8:03am — No Comments

Running the dominator energy off planet-first step is naming it





At Vanc Olys and TO #G20 we claimed our space: Canada, land of the free, saying “no” to the dominator energy Oh Canada! Yes to

life! Thanks to our youth.



IOC's false patriotism and disrespect of indigenous peoples http://ow.ly/24crX…



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Added by Kathie Wallace on June 28, 2010 at 8:54am — No Comments

Let’s Move Beyond Oil-Hands across the Sand







On June 26th please join thousands across the world to draw a line in the sand against offshore oil drilling. The image is powerful, the message is simple. NO to Offshore Oil Drilling, YES to Clean Energy.



Hands Across the Sand is a movement made of people of all walks of life and crosses political affiliations. This movement is not about politics; it is about protection of our coastal economies,…

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Added by Kathie Wallace on June 26, 2010 at 8:35am — No Comments

Magnificent Human

http://ow.ly/1Qp80


Added by Kathie Wallace on June 24, 2010 at 9:43am — No Comments

Vancouver’s First Nations’ DTES smudge ceremony

Vancouver’s First Nations peoples have always held ceremonies calling all people to come together to connect with themselves, each other, Mother Earth and the Great Spirit.


Read more http://ow.ly/20RRi



Added by Kathie Wallace on June 20, 2010 at 9:46am — No Comments

Thank you!


I want to thank all my Village Vancouver friends and allies for reading my posts.
May we all bless-ed be!
Dancing in the new world
in joy
Kathie Wallace

Added by Kathie Wallace on June 20, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Who's really to blame for the oil spill in the Gulf?

I'm so sick and tired of hearing about how evil BP is. Blame, blame, blame, blame. "Make them pay.... blah blah blah." This is like people who smoke and get lung cancer suing the tobacco manufacturers... or the fat guy who sues MacDonalds. I hope anyone who is pinning all the blame for this disaster on BP isn't driving a fossil fuel guzzling vehicle to the lynching. BP is in the Gulf because we keep buying their products. We are ALL responsible for this environmental clustercluck and the sooner… Continue

Added by Julia Smith on June 16, 2010 at 10:30pm — 1 Comment

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