Village Vancouver Newsletter and Calendar of Events
November 2013
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| 5th annual Sustenance Festival at the Roundhouse Community Centre. Photo from Vancitybuzz.com |
In this newsletter:
- Drop-in "spaghetti" night community-wide celebration - Nov. 7
- Basic Emergency Preparedness workshop - Nov. 7
- 5th Annual Slow Food, Slow Everything Day with Village - Dec. 8
- Bowen in Transition presents Inner Transition with Carolyn Baker - Nov 8-9
- The New Geopolitics of Food with Lester Brown - Nov. 9
- What is a green city, really? - Nov. 15
- Seedy Thursday - Nov. 21
- In Memoriam: James Myers
- Upcoming Marpole Neighbourhood Food Network meeting
- CityStudio project seeks donations of outdoor lighting
- Zero Waste International Alliance reacts to bogus Zero Waste claims
- CoDev's Annual Rum and Rhythms - Nov. 28
Enjoy!
Your November newsletter team,
Your November newsletter team,
Jordan, Sharon and Ross
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Transition starts with people and places
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| (Photo by Dana Wilson) Village Vancouver co-sponsored a placemaking workshop with Mark Lakeman, founder of Portland's City Repair, and Erin Innes, a local permaculture educator and activist, on the very first day of the 6-day Living the New Economy confluence on Granville Island (October 15-20). Click here for more great photos, blogs and resources from the Living the New Economy events. Click here to listen to Mark Lakeman's keynote conversation with filmmaker Ian MacKenzie at the opening evening of Living the New Economy! |
Drop in "Spaghetti" Night Community-wide Celebration Potluck Celebration - November 7th
This month's Kits House Potluck celebrates a series of several locally-sourced and locally prepared neighbourhood dinners hosted by Kits Villagers and supported by a Vancouver Foundation Neighbourhood Small Grant. Each of these meals has brought or will bring neighbours together to share a meal cooked on one stove, reducing transportation and energy consumption, with one of the goals being to introduce neighbours to one another.
Hosts have been encouraged to prepare their meals using locally-sourced ingredients (e.g., 100-Mile Diet) - for example from the Kits Village Collaborative Garden and the Westside Community Food Market and to track the origin of all of their ingredients. We will be reporting on the results of these Drop-In 'Spaghetti' Nights and encourage all who hosted or participated in a DISN to share their experiences as well.
We invite you to bring a dish featuring local ingredients to share at this month's potluck. Local chef Russell Cameron will once again be providing his fabulous soup and bread.
Please RSVP here or to Ross at ross@villagevancouver.ca.
Upcoming drop-in spaghetti nights:
Basic Neighbourhood Emergency Preparedness with Ann Pacey - Nov. 7, Strathcona Community Centre
5th Annual Slow Food, Slow Everything Day with Village (celebrating Terra Madre Day) - December 8th
Bowen in Transition presents Carolyn Baker
To Register for the Workshop: Please contact Brian Hoover either via email: bhoover@telus.net
or by phone: 604.947.2283.
Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. manages a website at www.carolynbaker.net and is theauthor of: Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths For Turbulent Times, Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path Of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse and Navigating The Coming Chaos: A Handbook For Inner Transition. She is a drummer, storyteller, and workshop leader, as well as a student of myth and ritual. She lives in Boulder, Colorado where she works with Transition Colorado. A former psychotherapist, she offers life coaching for people who want to live more resiliently in the present as they prepare for the future.
or by phone: 604.947.2283.
Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. manages a website at www.carolynbaker.net and is theauthor of: Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths For Turbulent Times, Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path Of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse and Navigating The Coming Chaos: A Handbook For Inner Transition. She is a drummer, storyteller, and workshop leader, as well as a student of myth and ritual. She lives in Boulder, Colorado where she works with Transition Colorado. A former psychotherapist, she offers life coaching for people who want to live more resiliently in the present as they prepare for the future.
The New Geopolitics of Food with Lester Brown
A Fundraiser for the CCPA-BC’s Climate Justice Project
With food scarcity driven by falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures, control of arable land and water resources is moving to centre stage in the global struggle for food security. Food is the new oil.
Lester Brown is a renowned environmental thinker and the founder of the Earth Policy and Worldwatch institutes.
DetailsSaturday, November 9, 2013 – 7:00 pm
SFU Segal Graduate Building (500 Granville Street, Rooms 1200-1500)
Tickets are $20, and are available at: http://www.policyalternatives.ca/lester-brown (for secure online ticket sales)
Lester Brown’s new book will be available for sale at the event.
Event co-sponsors: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and SFU Centre for Sustainable Development
About the Climate Justice ProjectThe Climate Justice Project, a partnership between the CCPA and the University of British Columbia, addresses climate policy from a social justice perspective: we consider the social and economic effects of climate change, and we acknowledge that climate change affects people differently, depending on their position in society. Learn more at: climatejustice.ca
What is a green city, really?
November 15, 7pm - Vancouver Public Library
Presented by the Work Less Party of BC and the Extraenvironmentalist podcast
Vancouver wants to become the greenest in the world, but will any of the Greenest City Action Plan strategies make a difference? Join us for an evening of discussion about ideas and actions as we explore multiple perspectives on how our community could actually reduce its ecological footprint.
Panelists:
Jennie Moore - Director, Sustainable Development and Environmental Stewardship at BCIT
Donnie Maclurcan - Co-founder, Post Growth Institute
Gregor Macdonald - Journalist and energy analyst
Conrad Schmidt - Social activist, filmmaker and writer of books such as Alternatives to Growth: Efficiency Shifting and Workers of the World Relax.
Gregor Macdonald - Journalist and energy analyst
Conrad Schmidt - Social activist, filmmaker and writer of books such as Alternatives to Growth: Efficiency Shifting and Workers of the World Relax.
More information on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/events/449259128527726
In Memoriam: James Myers
On a very sad note, we lost a well liked member of the Village Vancouver family on October 12, Dr. James Myers from New Zealand. James, who was 33, was a radiologist at St. Paul's on a two year medical fellowship.
James joined the Kits Village Billy Bishop garden last May and also volunteered at VV's demonstration village at the Khatsahlano Festival in July, potting several dozen arugula seedlings from the garden to hand out and enthusiastically letting folks know about Village. He also participated in potlucks, played volleyball, volunteered at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, was thinking about hosting a drop-in spaghetti night, and loved the outdoors, particularly when it involved riding his bike.
We were fortunate enough to meet his sister Hannah and brother Andrew, who came to the garden the week after his passing to see where he had spent many happy, productive hours.
Go well, mate!
We'll be dedicating one of the apple trees in the garden to James at a memorial gathering later in the month. (Date TBD.)
-- From your fellow Kits Village Collaborative Gardeners
Angela, Charlotte, Laura Lee, Mike, Ross, and Virginia
James joined the Kits Village Billy Bishop garden last May and also volunteered at VV's demonstration village at the Khatsahlano Festival in July, potting several dozen arugula seedlings from the garden to hand out and enthusiastically letting folks know about Village. He also participated in potlucks, played volleyball, volunteered at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, was thinking about hosting a drop-in spaghetti night, and loved the outdoors, particularly when it involved riding his bike.
We were fortunate enough to meet his sister Hannah and brother Andrew, who came to the garden the week after his passing to see where he had spent many happy, productive hours.
Go well, mate!
We'll be dedicating one of the apple trees in the garden to James at a memorial gathering later in the month. (Date TBD.)
-- From your fellow Kits Village Collaborative Gardeners
Angela, Charlotte, Laura Lee, Mike, Ross, and Virginia
Marpole Neighbourhood Food Network Gathering
Marpole Neighbourhood Food Network will be holding a get together in late November - Date TBD. Watch the Events posts on the website for more details.
Marpole NFN is co-sponsored by Village Vancouver and Marpole Place neighbourhood House.
CityStudio project seeks donations of outdoor lighting
A group of students from the CityStudio program, which works to engage university students on Greenest City projects around Vancouver, has a vision of creating spaces where people from different communities can gather, interact, and own the space during the winter months. Their project, “Deck the Dark” aims to fulfill their vision by engaging residents to help light up community public spaces with holiday lights. Not only does lighting have the power to make communities safer and more vibrant, “Deck the Dark” provides residents with unique opportunities to meet their neighbours and foster community networks.
At this moment, the students are asking for any community donations of outdoor lighting. Do you have any outdoor lights that you can spare, or know someone who does? If so, please get in touch with Kate Beck at katembeck@hotmail.com.
The Zero Waste International Alliance reacts to bogus Zero Waste claims
As a direct response to the emergence of
bogus “Zero Waste” organisations around the world the Zero Waste International
Alliance (ZWIA), which has for over a decade proposed and promoted the
elimination of all waste in human endeavours, has contacted its friends in the
Industrial Ecology, anti-incineration and circular economy world, to ask for
help in flushing out the imposters that are trying to steal the Zero Waste term
in order to promote incineration and other unsustainable practices under the
cloak of the term “Zero Waste to Landfill” ---mostly for undisguised commercial
reasons.
“There can be no form of deliberate
resource destruction in a zero waste world” –Ric Anthony, Chair of the Zero
Waste International alliance.
Tickets on Sale Now for CoDev's Annual Rum & Rhythms
428 Carrall Street, Vancouver, BC
Doors Open at 7:00PM
Tickets: $35 per person
Tickets: $35 per person
We're excited to host the 2nd Annual Rum & Rhythms! Join CoDev along with Diana Sánchez for an evening of rum tasting and salsa dancing!
We had such a great time last year that we wanted to bring it back this year
We hope you'll join us!
We had such a great time last year that we wanted to bring it back this year
We hope you'll join us!
We'll start the evening off with a rum tasting (included in the ticket price) and then a small silent auction including some delicious and special rums.
Diana will take the floor at 8:00PM and teach us some smooth salsa moves.
Buy your tickets here! And see you on November 28th!
All proceeds from this event support CoDev's work to build partnerships for global justice.
Support Village Vancouver and local economic resilience in one go!
