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February 2011 Blog Posts (21)
Re: KTV Visioning Session - Song
I wanted to thank you and Rin and everyone who participated in the KTV visioning session for
a rich community seed sowing experience. In the spirit of this movement and this moment...
I wanted to share this song, I just came across (for the soulfully inclined) with everyone who
attended the visioning session - called: "Everybody" by Raul Midon.…
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Added by Joey Rae on February 27, 2011 at 6:30pm — No Comments
So Much Magnificence
We are free-flowing energy being and patterning along a magnificently diverse spectrum of existence moving as successive iterations of fractalized existence into one. http://ow.ly/44j92…
ContinueAdded by Kathie Wallace on February 27, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments
Kits Village Calendar (Feb-Apr)
Sun Feb 27 Movie Night: In Transition (about the worldwide Transition Town movement) @ Pia & Hart's POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS (Movie reschedued to next movie night on March 27)
Tue Mar 8 Soup & Share nights @ Laura Lee & Ross's …
ContinueAdded by Ross Moster on February 26, 2011 at 7:30pm — No Comments
The task is not to bring it all together...
...is not to bring it
all together,
but to make places
and find ways
to keep the fabric,
the visions of hope
moving on,
fluid, dynamic,
without domination,
with all the…
ContinueAdded by Kathie Wallace on February 26, 2011 at 3:02pm — No Comments
The people’s aspirations:
...a level playing field & freedom for all http://tumblr.com/xgo1me3poz #AJEnglish #Wisconsin #India…
ContinueAdded by Kathie Wallace on February 26, 2011 at 3:01pm — No Comments
honey
Added by petra hartt on February 24, 2011 at 3:44pm — 3 Comments
…soon, one voice…
Michael Franti Say Hey I Love You http://kathiewallace.tumblr.com/
http://ow.ly/41iqn #Egypt #AJEnglish #Tunisia #Libya and Ohio, Wisconsin...…
Added by Kathie Wallace on February 22, 2011 at 11:56am — No Comments
Interview with Michael Brownlee
follow the link for audio version.
Alex Smith : The Transition movement has spread from the United Kingdom to North America. Michael Brownlee is a gateway for many people discovering this new vision of living and community building. Brownlee co-founded Transition Colorado.
Michael, welcome to Radio Ecoshock.
Michael Brownlee : Thanks Alex, glad to be… Continue
Added by David Allan on February 21, 2011 at 4:06pm — No Comments
Today's Thought
Added by David Allan on February 20, 2011 at 9:23am — No Comments
Help plan future Kits Transition Village activities and direction
Hey all!
Interested in helping plan future Kits Village activities and direction?
Good things are cooking in our village -- figuratively, as well as literally! Currently, activities include monthly potlucks/garden parties, movie nights, and dropin spaghetti nights.
Last year we gardened collaboratively at Kits House and this year we're looking to start a new garden at Billy Bishop Legion Hall -- and perhaps in other locations as well.
We just had our 1st Soup…
ContinueAdded by Ross Moster on February 17, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments
Kits Transition Village Visioning meeting and potluck
@ Ross and Laura Lee's
Share some good food and conversation with members of Kitsilano Transition Village.
What would a more sustainable and resilient Kitsilano look like? How can we take steps towards this?
There will be plenty of time in this visioning session to meet other…
ContinueAdded by Ross Moster on February 17, 2011 at 11:30am — No Comments
Fighting to Farm in BC
Added by Karen Elaine Gilchrist on February 17, 2011 at 12:47am — No Comments
Gateway Program’s blacktop politics pushed back in New Westminster
Work is continuing on the $3-billion Highway 1 widening, which
includes the replacement for the Port Mann Bridge, slated to be
Canada's widest bridge. Despite legal action by the Burns Bog
Conservation Society, logging for the $2-billion South Fraser
Perimeter Road freeway continues in Surrey and Delta.
But the Gateway Program…
Added by Eric Doherty on February 15, 2011 at 6:01pm — No Comments
Summer Course in Italy, Switzerland and Lopez Island, WA about Food (& Slow Food Movement)
Hi, I am posting this link because I've taken several courses from one of the main instructors, Gigi Beradi, and she's a wonderful teacher. I am betting this will be a great course. Gigi has been immersed in the agro-ecology movement for decades and is well connected in the start, continuation, growth and critique of the Slow Food Movement. The link to the course is below the description.
Study…
ContinueAdded by Jamie D on February 12, 2011 at 5:37pm — No Comments
11:11 2:11:2011
Mother Earth’s reset button http://tumblr.com/xgo1htliz0 #Egypt #Cairo #Jan25 http://ow.ly/3TgER…
ContinueAdded by Kathie Wallace on February 12, 2011 at 10:14am — No Comments
Suffer the children…
Added by Kathie Wallace on February 12, 2011 at 10:12am — No Comments
Course on Sustainable Food starting Feb 10 at UBC Continuing Studies
Hello Villagers and Food Fans,
If you'd like to explore global and local food issues, and get an overview of the major challenges in food sustainability today, consider signing up for my course which begins Feb 10, for 5 consecutive Thursday evenings, 6:30-9:30 pm, at Robson Square. Called Sustainable Food Systems: Issues and Implications, it is part of UBC's sustainability management certificate program, but is also open to anyone who's interested. Call me if you'd like to…
ContinueAdded by Eleanor Boyle on February 9, 2011 at 4:00pm — No Comments
Peak Oil and Saudia Arabia
This article was distributed to the Post Carbon Toronto group. It should be something our members at VV are also aware of:
…
ContinueAdded by Brennan Wauters on February 9, 2011 at 9:30am — 1 Comment
Bringing the New World
Added by Kathie Wallace on February 7, 2011 at 11:00am — No Comments
I Knew I was Lost
for voice and (chorus)
When country turned into marketplace... (I knew I was lost)
When community turned into corporation... (I knew...)
When citizens turned into consumers... (I knew...)
When friendship turned into networking... (I knew...)
When a handshake turned into C.V.,reference,
criminal check, credit check, blood test,
piss test, psych test, and most importantly
the aptitude test for theft, greed and deceit... (I… Continue
Added by David Allan on February 1, 2011 at 11:49am — No Comments
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