CarFree Day this Sunday the 16th!

There is no better place to be than CarFree Vancouver Day this Fathers' Day, June 16th.  On Commercial Drive (Venables to North Grandview), Denman Street (Robson to Davie) downtown, all over Kitsilano (block parties Saturday and Sunday), and Main Street (from Broadway to 30th Ave--20+ blocks!), the streets will come alive with literally hundreds of thousands of engaged and happy people.

The Village will be not just on Main Street at the intersection of 13th Avenue, BUT WE WILL BE THE INTERSECTION!  Our close to 20 tent Demonstration Sustainable Transition Village will include our extensive library, music, movies, chicken coops, bees, solar panels, homesteading resources, seed libraries, neighbourhood food networks, gardening, permaculture, emergency preparedness, a plastic-free zero waste kitchen display, visioning, kid-oriented carpentry and painting activities, refreshments, community groups like SPEC, False Creek Watershed Society, and Cottonwood Community Garden, and SO MUCH MORE. In other words, imagine your ideal neighbourhood!

Read an article here about the festival, featuring Village Founder Ross Moster, and watch a short movie here to see how it is organized and view what it looked like on its first year on Main Street.

Be there, be part of the largest CarFree Day exhibitor, and enjoy the spirit of safe, open streets, Transition-style!

If you would like to volunteer to help with setup (10 am-noon), at a Village info table (between noon and 7 pm), or with breakdown, or have tables, chairs or tents we can borrow (currently looking for 3-6 more tents) OR if you would like to promote/display a community project, group, or activity you're involved in, please contact volunteer@villagevancouver.ca. (If the link isn't working properly, just cut and paste.) 

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Announcing the June edition of the Village Vancouver Newsletter and Calendar of Events!

In this month's newsletter:

• The world stands up to Monsanto
• Join Village Vancouver at Car Free Day!
• From Here to There: Stories of Food, Energy and Transitioning to Sustainable Communities.
• Transition School at Langara College
• Earthwalks back by popular demand
• Permaculture guru Toby Hemenway comes to Vancouver
• Woodland Community Garden breaks ground
• Film Fundraiser for Woodland Community Garden
• Commercial Drive workshop and potluck: Backyard Chickens
• Kits Eco-Àrts events
• Learn to sew at Carnegie Community Centre
• Permaculture course at UBC Farm
• The most important tar sands case you've never heard of
• And more!

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Catch the Village in the Media Coop in an article by Kerry Hall!  Click here.

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From Here to There 3: Stories of Food, Energy, and Transitioning to Resilient Communities

June 19th at MOV

Details here.

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Toby Hemenway Needs Your Ideas

"Calling all permaculturists who live in a city, suburb, or town: I’m writing a book on urban permaculture, to be published by Chelsea Green, and I’m looking for case studies, innovations, and inspirations for the book. It’s got chapters on home and community-style gardens, energy, water, shelter and building, community, livelihood and economics, and designing for disaster/first responders. I want to tell the stories of people and organizations who have applied permaculture design in any of those areas to solve the challenges of living in towns. If you have a cool urban gardening technique, a way of working with your personal or community’s energy or water needs, a permaculture design for a building in a town, a business or livelihood that’s designed along permaculture principles, have been involved in a permaculture disaster-relief or aid project for an urban area, I’d like to hear from you with an eye toward including your project or technique in the book. Anything from a unique urban graywater setup to a guild of businesses and non-profits. I’m also looking for photos and drawings of same. You can write me at this address."

-- Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

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