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DonorsChoose.org and Tim Ferriss

by Mike Thomas on December 23, 2009

in Blogging, Book Review, Community, Marketing

A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post about TIm Ferriss' book, "The 4-Hour Workweek" Apparently the post was quite influential in the blogosphere in promoting the book and as a result Tim recently sent me a gift card for $100 to be used at DonorsChoice.org, an organization dedicated to facilitating donations to [...]

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Organic Seedlings

by Mike Thomas on June 5, 2009

in Community, Urban Farming

I received a surprise email late last week from one of my readers, Eva Johannsen, who runs a native tree farm in Winlaw, BC asking if I’d like some free organic seedlings.

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Building Community

by Mike Thomas on May 25, 2009

in Cities, Community, Sustainability, Transitions

In times past, you couldn’t be an individual and live in a town or city. There wasn’t TV or the internet to distract us from the necessary task of making friends in a community. The community was the lifeboat you could trust to rescue, it was the means of commerce and service. It wasn’t just the group of people sharing a common location, it was a group of people sharing a common goal or set of ideals.

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Castlegar Planning for the Future

by Mike Thomas on April 16, 2009

in Castlegar, Community, Kootenays, Sustainability, Urban Planning

This week marks the start of The City of Castlegar’s Integrated Community Sustainability Planning process – at least the public side of it. Last night, a presentation by the Fraser ABasin Council on Sustainability Processes foir Communities drew out out about 30 residents and councillors with some excellent discussion about the end aim of going through such a process for a community.

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Community Energy and Emissions Inventory for BC

by Mike Thomas on March 25, 2009

in Energy, Sustainability

British Columbia has recently released the draft of the Province-wide community level Energy and Emissions Inventory. This is the first example of a large scale community-wide inventory in North America. This supports the commitment of communities under the Climate Action Charter to Measure and Report Community Green House Gas Emissions, and to develop targets, policies [...]

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RDCK Smart Planning Innitiative

by Mike Thomas on March 16, 2009

in Castlegar, Community, Kootenays, Sustainability, Transitions, Urban Planning

The Regional District of Central Kootenay, in which the City of Castlegar resides is starting out on the Integrated Community Sustainability Planning path.If you are path of the communities inside the RDCK, check out the following information about the public consultation process, and at a minimum take the survey, it is about a twenty minute [...]

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BSC2009 – Community Capital – Dr Boyd Cohen

by Mike Thomas on February 24, 2009

in Community, Conference, Sustainability

Dr Boyd Cohen kicked off the Building Sustainable Communities conference with a talk exploring the six types of capital required for sustainable communities and gave examples around the world of projects that have radically enhanced communities.

Technorati Tags: Boyd Cohen, BSC2009, climate change, community, Community Capital, Community development, environment, Natural environment, Sustainability, Sustainable community, Sustainable Development

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Building Sustainable Communities Conference

by Mike Thomas on February 22, 2009

in Sustainability, Urban Planning

If you are attending the Building Sustainable Communities Conference 2009 and taking photos (uploaded to flickr), bookmarking (on delicious) blogging or twittering, please use the tag BSC2009 so we can keep up to date with each others posts. Follow me on Twitter too.
Next week is going to be a little different as I’m away at [...]

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