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Have a desire to advance ecological sustainability, community resiliency & 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? Share a meal with neighbours? Participate in a more localized economy?
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 the Village Vancouver Transition Society and get involved. Don't wait for an invitation; find people on your own and "grab the reins."
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Robin Surcess replied to Cindi Keep's discussion Looking for pullets in the group North Shore Chickens
Stephanie Imhoff replied to Cindi Keep's discussion Looking for pullets in the group North Shore ChickensClick 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.
Gaiacraft: Low-cost, flexible Permaculture Design Course Feb-Apr 2013
Monday, May 27
6 to 8 pm
West End Community Centre
970 Denman
Share some good food and conversation w/your neighbours. Bring something yummy to share. (and a cup, bowl, spoon, etc. if you can.)
Free. Everyone welcome. (You don't have to live in the West End.)
RSVP here or to Ross at ross@villagevancouver.ca or to WE Community Centre (45809.20)
This week the carbon dioxide level in our atmosphere passed 400 parts per million (ppm). The movement 350.org was set up to reinforce a broad scientific understanding that 350 ppm was the absolute ceiling level of carbon, a relative "safe zone" in James Hansen's words, beyond which human life on earth would be increasingly untenable. So, now we've hit 400, and among other things we've now lost most of our arctic ice. According to Grist magazine, US carbon emissions have fallen 13% over the past 7 years--evidence that there may be hope?!--but global emissions are still 58% over 1990 levels (the Kyoto ceiling).
So what does 400 really mean? The number itself is irrelevant; the important message is that it is still rising, and we still have a lot of work to do. Read more here.
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Announcing the May edition of the Village Vancouver Newsletter and Calendar of Events!
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March 7, 2013 at 6:30pm to September 21, 2013 at 12pm – various venues in Vancouver
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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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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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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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