From the category archives:
UrbanWorkbench will be represented at the upcoming Training 4 Transition event in Abbotsford, BC by my wife Robyn Thomas. This course is a useful first step in getting started on the concept of a Transition Town and is being held over two days, March 20th and 21st, 2009, (in Abbotsford, BC).
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Over the past couple of days, I’ve attended the Building Sustainable Communities Conference held in Kelowna with a couple of hundred other people, predominantly from around British Columbia, but also from as far away as Sweden. I covered the contents of many of the sessions in posts that can be found here. These were my [...]
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Jesse Lemieux, now living on Denman Island is a Permaculture educator who has been engaged in Permaculture principles around the globe. His presentation at the Building Sustainable Communities Conference was a primer on Permacultur, the reasons and means to make a difference in sustainable design of human settlemtn and the relationship to the environment and [...]
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Why be a sustainable community?
Involved connected creative community
Necessity – statutory requirements of land planning
Building within the environmental carrying capacity
Population growth 1988 – 4,000 people 2015 30,000 people. (16% growth)
Country residential fragments and expands infrastructure of all types
Dwellers on the threshold
A choice to be made -
Planned destiny
By intent
A vision for 2030
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Traditional road-building focus until 1990
Fiscal, political and physical reality intervened
Goal – Hold Traffic to 1994 levels, reduce SOV mode share to 25%
Why not just build more roads?
If Boulder pursued a road capacity building project:
$200 million on road capacity projects
improve system congestion from 60% in 20 years to 51% congested
would require removing existing buildings in many [...]
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A model for sustainable community, the Mayor of Linköping, Ann-Catherine presented on the last fifty years of efforts to improve the sustainability of the community – now over 90% of the residential dwellings are heated by the district heating system run by the municipality.
A City of 140,000 people
The community takes solid waste from 30 other [...]
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Winona LaDuke is a notable author and native american from Minasotta.
Democracy is not a spectator sport.
Who is it that is going to fix things?
We look around our community and despite all of our shortcomings – it is community that holds the key to change. We need to learn how to be good neighbours to the [...]
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