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July 7, 2012 at 9:30am to July 13, 2012 at 5pm – Langara College Langara College's Sustainable Communities Summer School Join us to learn skills, gain knowledge, develop strategies, and create visions for creating sustainable communities rooted in social and envir… Organized by Village Vancouver, Ross Moster, Sarah St. John | Type: workshop, sustainability, community, food, gardening
July 9, 2012 at 9am to July 27, 2012 at 3pm – West 57th & East Blvd, Vancouver Passport to Permaculture: An Urban Ag Summer Camp 2012 July 9-13 or July 23-27 9am-3pm @ The World In A Garden West 57th & East Blvd, Vancouver For Ages 6-12 $245 with t-shirt / $225 without t-sh… Organized by The World In A Garden | Type: kerrisdale, summer camp
July 9, 2012 from 10am to 5pm – Room B149, Langara College Explore the cultural and economic causes of the social, economic and ecological crises facing us today. We will investigate key underlying western values, beliefs and institutions in order to better… Organized by Village Vancouver, Kathyrn Chollette, Ross Moster, Sarah St. John | Type: workshop, ecology, social-change
July 9, 2012 from 5pm to 6pm – Room C509, Langara College In this course we will look at the fundamentals of composting and what factors to watch for when designing and maintaining your system. What are the pros and cons of vermicompost? Do those black plas… Organized by Village Vancouver, Grant Watson, Ross Moster, Sarah St. John | Type: workshop, compost, garden
July 9, 2012 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm – Room C509, Langara College Want to grow food but you live in an apartment? In this course we will cover the techniques and challenges specific to gardening indoors and on balconies in containers. We'll look at soil, fertilizin… Organized by Village Vancouver, Grant Watson, Ross Moster, Sarah St. John | Type: gardening, workshop, food
July 9, 2012 from 6:30pm to 9:30pm – Langara Community College, Room A229 An intensive half-day intro to Bioremedial practices. Learn about pragmatic arts-based practices of rehabbing damaged sites, wetlands, and waterways. Bioremedial Ecoart practice: IntroMonday July… Organized by Beth Carruthers (instructor) | Type: everywhere, you, want, to, revive, a, greener, city
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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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