Building resilience in the Saugeen Region.
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John A Harrison
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Climate Safety and Biodi…
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Transition Culture
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The Greening of the Economy: A Community Dialogue at Grey-Bruce Public Health Building
May 20, 2010 from 7:30pm to 9pm
Join us for a free community dialogue on The Greening of the Economy: Exploring a fresh economic vision for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound.
This evening conversation will feature Jed Goldberg, President of Earth Day Canada, as well as a moderated discussion…
The Saugeen region (Grey Bruce) has a vibrant cultural community. Culture is destined to play a major role in community re-imagining, revaluing, and re-presentation and celebration, as well as significantly increasing cultural businesses scale.
Regarding the dump truck: the aphorism was loaded with irony and paradox to provoke more thought! In some respects the male overthrow of the feminine and the rise of agriculture and the patriarchal pastoralists was also quite the geo-engineering eff…
I think i'd leave the truck out of the equation. Scientists have real fears regarding geoengineering, and although the truck smacks of its own man-made fossil fuel ecological transformation, many ecologists think that we need to go past conservation…
Thanks Doug, and thanks again for launching this group. I will see about the Nature article. Congratulations on your excellent article and bringing The Tragedy of the Commons into this whole forum. Defining the Common of this region and its conditio…
Thank you for your note. There is a new biography on Muir that spends a little time on his stay here.
In a recent article in the science journal, Nature, there are graphs showing over the next hundred years the velocity of climate change across the…
At the centre of the Transition movement is a resilient and therefore healthy ecosystem. Climate change is one of the major threats facing life on Earth. Important action and education on these issues are crucial for any localization movement.
The Saugeen region (Grey Bruce) has a vibrant cultural community. Culture is destined to play a major role in community re-imagining, revaluing, and re-presentation and celebration, as well as significantly increasing cultural businesses scale.
Great idea and project undertaken!
First time I have seen the four quadrants. Very interesting. Have been interested in the global Slow Movement for some years and Carl Honoré's book: In Praise of Slow. Have suggested several times to people and Ci…
The Saugeen region (Grey Bruce) has a vibrant cultural community. Culture is destined to play a major role in community re-imagining, revaluing, and re-presentation and celebration, as well as significantly increasing cultural businesses scale.
Great opening discussion. If we add two key elements, the need to earn outside, or export, dollars for the health of our regional economy (Jane Jacobs' books and others) and the degree to which we can engage in the Creative Economy here, we may find…
The Saugeen region (Grey Bruce) has a vibrant cultural community. Culture is destined to play a major role in community re-imagining, revaluing, and re-presentation and celebration, as well as significantly increasing cultural businesses scale.
Welcome to the Transition Culture Group!
First, Full Disclosure: I currently serve as Vice President of the Grey Bruce Cultural Network, which is developing the next major roll-out of cultural services here with opportunities for all to fully partic…
The Saugeen region (Grey Bruce) has a vibrant cultural community. Culture is destined to play a major role in community re-imagining, revaluing, and re-presentation and celebration, as well as significantly increasing cultural businesses scale.
A group to provide regional networking support for community transition projects and regional issues.
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