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Tipping Point Action Proposal in Contest at MIT Climate CoLab Crowdsourcing Platform
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"…
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Big empty swimming pool turned into abundant food garden
Love this idea! There's an inspiring short video: http://ow.ly/rjj1q
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New Approach to Collaborative Problem Solving and Citizen Peacebuilding
New Approach to Collaborative Problem Solving and Citizen Peacebuilding
(being introduced by two companion websites and four key documents)
The websites, the documents, and the approach
We are in uncharted territory, for there is no culture or association of societies that ever existed on planet Earth which has had to resolve the kind of challenges the next few generations of people will have to resolve [see “A List of Ten Critical Challenges” (also accessible from the…
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New currency hits the streets of Nelson
A new currency hit the streets of Nelson Wednesday, one with more bang for its buck than the sinking Euro.
Columbia Community Dollars, a community initiative two years in the making, represents a growing trend of communities finding their own solutions to ailing economies.
"Creating community currencies is perfectly legal," said Michael Sheely, coordinator for the community dollars said in a written email release.
"Probably because it seems too good to be true is why…
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Dirk Becker's Comments on the Occupy Movement - November 2
It all started with an email.
On July 13, 2011 Adbusters magazine sent out a call to its 90,000-strong list proclaiming a Twitter hashtag, #OccupyWallStreet, and a date, September 17. It quickly spread among the mostly young, tech-savvy radical set, along…
Added by Randy Chatterjee on November 10, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments
Our Most Basic Right -- To Choose What we Eat -- Denied in Canada
Some of you may have been following the case of Michael Schmidt, biodynamic farmer in Ontario who is currently on a hunger strike. I think it is day 19 now....
What is he protesting? Our very basic right to decide for ourselves what we put into our own bodies.
In both the US and Canada, judges have ruled that we can't drink milk right from our own cows. Canada and the US are marching in-step towards a future where our food is completely controlled by…
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VV Events posted eventsPainting Fall with Watercolour September 17 to October 15
Flexible, low cost, Permaculture Design Certificate August 9, 2015 to March 20, 2016
Drop-in "Spaghetti" Nights are back! Village Burnaby -- Friday, June 12th
Langara College Permaculture Design Certificate Course April 25, 2015 to March 19, 2016
Flexible, low cost, Permaculture Design Certificate March 13 to December 14
Gaiacraft: Low-cost, flexible Permaculture Design Courses December 14, 2014 to November 17, 2015
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