*Kits Village March Potluck + Neighbourhood Small Grants, Community Gardening/Permaculture and Pollinator opportunities at Kits, near beach
March 8, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm
Vancouver's Leader in Transition toward Strong, Resilient, Complete Communities
VV Newsletter
The Transition Movement
Village Vancouver is part of a global movement and integrated network in 45 countries of:
- 472 official Transition Town Initiatives in 23 countries
- 32 official initiatives in Canada, including 10 in BC
- ...and over 700 "mullers", including 57 in Canada and 14 in BC. (Click on the map.)
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, Networks, and Projects -- including Neighbourhood Food Networks -- 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.)
Connect
Join Village Vancouver Transition Society
General Inquiries : info@villagevancouver.ca
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Volunteer with Village Vancouver
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Two easy ways you can help reduce waste...
West End Food Scrap Drop Spots
3x/week: Tuesday, Feb 3 -- Saturday, Feb 28
and
next Recycling Depot Thursday, Feb 19th
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Apps for Nutritious Organic Food Gardening
January 31, 2015 from 10am to 12:30pm – VanDusen Botanical Garden
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*Kits Village Dinner Group #2 February Gathering
February 1, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm – Kits
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Sauerkraut Fermentation
February 4, 2015 from 6pm to 9pm – Britannia Community Centre
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Healthy Soils, Healthy Humans
February 11, 2015 at 6pm to February 18, 2015 at 8:30pm – VanDusen Botanical Garden
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Canning for Beginners
February 18, 2015 from 6pm to 9pm – britannia Community Centre
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*Kits Village February Plastic Recycling Depot
February 19, 2015 from 6pm to 7pm – TBD
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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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Ross Moster posted an event*Kits Village Drop-in "Spaghetti" Night near Cornwall and Maple at Kits, near Cornwall and Maple
February 28, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm
Ongoing Courses/Activties
Winter 2015 Cultivating Food, Cultivating Community Series January 29 to March 26.
Drop-in "Spaghetti" Nights are back! Spaghetti nights resume in January.
Gaiacraft: Low-cost, flexible Permaculture Design Courses December 14, 2014 to November 17, 2015
Permaculture for Parents and Educators November 6, 2014 to June 27, 2015
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