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The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative provides research for critical challenge alerts, and support for collaborative problem solving and community education initiatives which seek to maximize citizen participation, and accelerate solution-oriented activity.

The CPCS Initiative is now making accessible an 82 page paper which summarizes work by its predecessor [The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative (from…

Hi all

I attended a fantastic VV water kefir class recently and am now enjoying healthy delicious probiotics 6 days/week (you're supposed to allow one day/week without any)... after the class, I bought additional scoby and it's grown so much that I now have a lot of excess. Folks on Craigslist are selling theirs for $5/TBSP which I am too, but! For my VV community, I'll give you 2TBSP for $5. A great deal. My scoby has only been fed organic cane sugar etc. It's very healthy. If you're…

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I have 3 laying chickens and their coop that I need to find a new home for. We're moving and unfortunately were not able to find another landlord that would allow us to keep our chickens. Sadly, the house we are in is going to be demolished in a few months, so we find ourselves in this situation.

The coop is large, so would probably need to be dissassembled, but anyone with a truck who is handy could do it. And it's free - also wired for a light in the winter. This is a…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Press Release in “Letter to the Editor” format)

May 16, 2015

Contact: Stefan Pasti

Cell: (703) 209-2093 (US)

[email protected]

(511 words)

Proposal for new section in small to mid-sized town newspapers: the Neighbor to Neighbor Community Education (NTNCE) Project

I am writing to share information and resources with you about a proposal for a new section in local newspapers, especially newspapers…

Hello Villagers,

I am brand new to backyard beekeeping (so new my bees haven't even arrived yet) and thought I would keep a record of my experiences to share with others. I have no prior experience and don't know anyone with experience to help me...so I'm winging it. My hopes in starting the page are to help spread interest in bees, help others learn from my mistakes and successes, encourage others who may be interested in urban beekeeping but may be reluctant to jump in due to lack…

" On 18 April 2015, I was privileged to be one of the participants to the first event of the 2015-2017…

I now have a service to offer Vancouver and Greater Vancouver: custom made Greenhouse/Solarium Fabrication and Installation. These greenhouses are locally made and installed.

Want to reduce carbon emissions? The highest energy return on energy invested of any human endeavour is the greenhouse where you can assist nature in growing food. Whether you rent or own your yard and would like to have a greenhouse to grow food or want a solarium for your hot tub? We offer installed…

Anyone interested in getting together on this in Burnaby?

This is mirrored from Jak King's blog here:

I just finished reading “Plastic Ocean” by Capt. Charles Moore and Cassandra Phillips. Hard to say much else but that this should be the “Silent Spring” of our generation.

Moore is a seaman who has become an oceanographer and environmentalist. It was his voyages that focused attention on the huge amounts of pollution — mostly…

This “Now Seeking Collaborators” outreach message includes the following sections:

Introduction

Details about the Survey Design

The Three Most Important Goals of The ROMC Survey Project

Why The ROMC Survey Project Could Make Especially Valuable Contributions

What the ROMC Survey Project is Currently Seeking

ROMC Survey Project Documents

Concluding Comments

Introduction

The ROMC Survey Project is seeking advisors and collaborators for a…

read about the generosity of some women who have donated to the downtown eastside chindi nation sewing group who meet at carnegie community center.

http://needleworkdesign.blogspot.ca/

read about the generosity of some women who have donated to the downtown eastside chindi nation sewing group who meet at carnegie community center.

http://needleworkdesign.blogspot.ca/

The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative now has a new website (www.cpcs.co ).

Here is a summary of the projects, documents and resources which can be accessed at The CPCS Initiative website:

1) The Tipping Point Action Campaign (“Tipping Point Action: Citizen Participation in Times of Unprecedented Challenges”) advocates for creating 1000 Community Visioning Initiatives as a way of maximizing citizen…

The Tipping Point Action Campaign and Ten Steps for Long Term Culture Change: proposals comprehensive enough to keep momentum on the side of “We can do it”

Does anyone know the best place to get earth for my garden? I thought the vancouver landfill would have the best priced and generally best earth but recently I was told that the landfill earth is full of nasty weed seeds. Does vancouver landfill practices of hot compost not kill them? Do food scraps get turned to earth in the time vancouver landfill holds that kind of waste? Any reviews or where I could find reviews?

Thank you for your help. I do have my own two compost bins but these…

Hi all,

Every year I buy a bunch of tickets from the Rogue Folk Club at a member discount and make them available at cost to friends and fellow music lovers.

This year tickets are $130. (Tickets are currently $155 thru the Folk Fest.) At the moment, I have 3 tickets left on a 1st come, 1st serve basis.

"folk fest tix" [email protected]

Cheers,

Ross

P.S. Anyone who's interested is welcome to join us on VV's tarp. We post our location every day…

Hello we're Karen and Michael,

About Us: We are a mature couple who want to enjoy a rural lifestyle without cutting ourselves off completely from our working and social relationships in Vancouver. Karen is a conscious parenting guide and music educator who enjoys playing her piano at home. She's in her late forties and is now focused on building her conscious parenting practice. Michael is a wholistic educator whose core work is helping himself and others live in…

The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative (www.cpcsc.info) now has a proposal ("Tipping Point Action: Citizen Participation in Times of Unprecedented Challenges") in a contest at the MIT Climate CoLab Platform. The Tipping Point Action Proposal is entered in the "Shifting Behavior for a Changing Climate" contest.

There are opportunities to comment on the Tipping Point Action proposal--and to give it a "thumbs up"…

Press Kit for Tipping Point Action Campaign

Citizen Participation in Times of Unprecedented Challenges

[a campaign of The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative]

(www.cpcsc.info)

Contact: Stefan Pasti, Campaign Coordinator

Cell: (703) 209-2093

Email: [email protected]

Note: a February 14, 2014 Press Release, and the full text (with resource links, etc) of…