Vancouver's Leader in Transition toward Strong, Resilient, Complete Communities
Want a quick peak into a bible of Transition, The Transition Companion?
Click on this image to open the book and you'll be able to read several chapters.
Get involved
Have a desire to advance ecological sustainability, community resiliency, regeneration & self-reliance, and social well-being in Vancouver? To connect with others in your community to create positive local responses to things like climate disruption, depletion of natural assets and economic instability and inequity? Grow more food? Learn how to fix your bike or prepare for an emergency? Get your Permaculture Design Certificate? Share a meal or swap stuff with your neighbours? Save heritage seeds? Engage in placemaking in your neighbourhood ? Participate in a more localized economy and consume less? Bioremediate your community?
Check out our Villages, Groups and Networks, including Neighbourhood Food, and Projects -- VV's centres of creativity where constructive dialogue leads to connection, collaboration, and inspired action in fun and satisfying ways!
We run on people power - join our website and/or the Village Vancouver Transition Society and get involved. Don't wait for an invitation; find folks on your own and "grab the reins." (We can help! - contact projects@villagevancouver.ca.)
Village Vancouver is part of a global movement and integrated network of:
- 475+ official Transition Town Initiatives
- in 43 countries
- 69 initiatives in Canada
- 22 in BC
- ...and over 600 more in the works! (Click the map)
Ongoing Courses/Events
Click on a listing for more information, including how to contact the instructor to ask to visit a single session or find out when the next similar course is offered.
*Drop-in "Spaghetti" Nights are back! Spaghetti nights resume in May.
*VV Spring 2014 Cultivating Food, Cultivating Community Series April 10 - May 13.
Gaiacraft: Low-cost, flexible Permaculture Design Courses May 2014 to December 2014.
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News from Chelsea Green
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Special Announcements
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To find previous News Blasts and Special Announcements, go to this page.
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Westside Community Food Market
July 3, 2014 at 3pm to September 25, 2014 at 7pm – 8th and Vine
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An Intertidal Wonderland
August 9, 2014 from 10:30am to 12:30pm – Meet at Stanley Park Pavilion
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Adaptation and Evolution in the Park
August 17, 2014 from 1:30pm to 3:30pm – Stanley Park Nature House on Lost Lagoon
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August 19
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Harvest Canning Workshop
August 19, 2014 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm – Trout Lake Community Centre
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August 24
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Homemade Yogurt & Kefir Making
August 24, 2014 from 2pm to 4pm – Britannia Community Centre
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Rainforest Café
September 7, 2014 from 1:30pm to 3:30pm – Meet at Stanley Park Nature House on Lost Lagoon
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September 21
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Fraser Valley Food Show
October 3, 2014 at 2pm to October 5, 2014 at 5pm – Tradex Exhibition Centre
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November 21
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Village engages individuals, neighbourhoods & organizations to take actions that build sustainable communities & have fun doing it. Join us!
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Join Village Vancouver Transition Society
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Volunteer Opportunities
Village Vancouver is a volunteer-driven organization, so if you want to change the world, roll up your sleeves and volunteer with us!
Newsletter Deadline
is the 24th of the month preceding the publication month. (e.g. April 24th for the May issue.) Submissions welcome. Send to Newsletter Team at newsletter@villagevancouver.ca
Events posted in "Events" on the website by the 25th will generally be listed in the Newsletter Calendar.
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Forum
Food
Local, organic, rural, and/or urban, food production is a mainstay of life, and doing it well leads to wellness. From farm to kitchen, discussions relating to food--and the community arising around it--belong here.
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Transportation
If you have to leave your village, how will you get where you want to go? By car? Preferably not, both for your wallet and the earth’s sake. This category is for all discussions relating to how we all get around.
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Housing
A human right? After food, most feel shelter is the most important necessity. A place of shelter is also the start of a community. This category is for all things relating to shelter, housing, affordable housing, homes, renewable heating systems, green buildings, heritage, and our built environment in general.
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