Saturday, January 31, 2004
Strengthening Our Community Links
Elder Care and Community Way
COMOX, BC, Jan. 26, 2004 (Community Way) - Hi again, Just noticed your emphasis on youth and seniors so I thought this project outline would be of interest. We tried to get it going around here but ran into institutional obstacles. The recreation part is in there because we were developing the project with the Comox Recreation Centre. You can see how home visitation can turn into home support. cheers, Ernie Yacub. The Elder Care and Recreation Project (ECRP) ...
Elder Care and Community Way
COMOX, BC, Jan. 26, 2004 (Community Way) - Hi again, Just noticed your emphasis on youth and seniors so I thought this project outline would be of interest. We tried to get it going around here but ran into institutional obstacles. The recreation part is in there because we were developing the project with the Comox Recreation Centre. You can see how home visitation can turn into home support. cheers, Ernie Yacub. The Elder Care and Recreation Project (ECRP) ...
Strengthening Our Community Links / Social Enterprise
Social purchasing portal benefits companies and community
VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 26, 2004 (Village Vibes) - The Toronto CED Learning Network, in partnership with CEDTAP, LEF and Fast Track To Employment of Vancouver's Downtown East Side, is launching the Social Purchasing Portal. The portal is a marketing mechanism for participating social enterprises and companies that commit to hiring hard-to-employ people. Any outside company already planning to spend money on catering, printing, courier, or a range of other services can spend it at a Social Purchasing Portal company and give someone a hand up without any extra effort. ... There will be an information session in Toronto on February 9th, 2pm to 4pm, at The Social Planning Council of Toronto. Please RSVP to Terry Baker via email at terry@torontoced.com before January 30th. For more information about how the portal is operating in Vancouver, visit: www.ftebusiness.org .
Social purchasing portal benefits companies and community
VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 26, 2004 (Village Vibes) - The Toronto CED Learning Network, in partnership with CEDTAP, LEF and Fast Track To Employment of Vancouver's Downtown East Side, is launching the Social Purchasing Portal. The portal is a marketing mechanism for participating social enterprises and companies that commit to hiring hard-to-employ people. Any outside company already planning to spend money on catering, printing, courier, or a range of other services can spend it at a Social Purchasing Portal company and give someone a hand up without any extra effort. ... There will be an information session in Toronto on February 9th, 2pm to 4pm, at The Social Planning Council of Toronto. Please RSVP to Terry Baker via email at terry@torontoced.com before January 30th. For more information about how the portal is operating in Vancouver, visit: www.ftebusiness.org .
Friday, January 30, 2004
Community Heros / Exemplary Models
Quality of Life Challenge Wants Your Stories
VICTORIA, BC, Jan. 26, 2004 (The Community Council) -The Quality of Life CHALLENGE is about Community Connections. We want to recognize and celebrate the many and diverse strengths of our community. We'll help write Quality of Life CHALLENGE stories, and we'll publish them on our website! The Community Council is connected with various local media who may choose to showcase your story. A board of volunteers may select your story as a focus for the 2004 Community Celebration if it's received by March 1st, 2004. YOUR STORY COULD INSPIRE OTHERS. The form, also available online at www.qolchallenge.ca, is designed to help facilitate information gathering. If you're interested in writing the story, I'll send our writing guidelines. If you'd prefer some assistance with the story writing, just send us the completed questionnaire. We'll write the story, and send it to you approval prior to its publication. I'll look forward to hearing from you! Janine Bandcroft, Communications Assistant, Community Council, 1144 Fort Street, Victoria, BC; Phone: (250) 383-6166.
Quality of Life Challenge Wants Your Stories
VICTORIA, BC, Jan. 26, 2004 (The Community Council) -The Quality of Life CHALLENGE is about Community Connections. We want to recognize and celebrate the many and diverse strengths of our community. We'll help write Quality of Life CHALLENGE stories, and we'll publish them on our website! The Community Council is connected with various local media who may choose to showcase your story. A board of volunteers may select your story as a focus for the 2004 Community Celebration if it's received by March 1st, 2004. YOUR STORY COULD INSPIRE OTHERS. The form, also available online at www.qolchallenge.ca, is designed to help facilitate information gathering. If you're interested in writing the story, I'll send our writing guidelines. If you'd prefer some assistance with the story writing, just send us the completed questionnaire. We'll write the story, and send it to you approval prior to its publication. I'll look forward to hearing from you! Janine Bandcroft, Communications Assistant, Community Council, 1144 Fort Street, Victoria, BC; Phone: (250) 383-6166.
Not-for-profit Software Deals with New BC Legislation
BC Privacy Legislation Tools
VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 26, 2004 (Third Sector Softward Solutions via Left Coast News) - Dear Friends, Happy New Year! ... and one undoubtedly filled with change for your organization and the people it serves. Let us help you meet the ever-increasing demands on your organization's operations by installing a secure, flexible, and affordable database system designed for managing and measuring Service Delivery activities. Built right here in British Columbia, our award-winning Non-Profit Activity Information System (N-PAIS) not only helps your organization comply with new BC-based information Privacy Legislation, it builds capacity and grows with you. Read more ...
BC Privacy Legislation Tools
VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 26, 2004 (Third Sector Softward Solutions via Left Coast News) - Dear Friends, Happy New Year! ... and one undoubtedly filled with change for your organization and the people it serves. Let us help you meet the ever-increasing demands on your organization's operations by installing a secure, flexible, and affordable database system designed for managing and measuring Service Delivery activities. Built right here in British Columbia, our award-winning Non-Profit Activity Information System (N-PAIS) not only helps your organization comply with new BC-based information Privacy Legislation, it builds capacity and grows with you. Read more ...
Strengthening Our Community Links
Homelessness Radio Broadcast Marathon
VICTORIA, BC, Jan. 26, 2004 (Left Coast News) 0 A Homelessness Marathon, a 14-hour radio broadcast,
will begin at sunset on February 12 and continue through sunrise the next day. It will originate from the streets of Montréal and will include panel discussions, an open microphone, short pre-produced pieces, and live call-ins via a toll-free number. Canada will link up with the US based Homelessness Marathon broadcast (now airing for its seventh year) for at least one hour. This Marathon will provide an opportunity for homeless people and their advocates to have a nationwide discussion. The Homelessness Marathon is available for free to all non-commercial broadcasters. http://www.ckut.ca/homeless.html .
Homelessness Radio Broadcast Marathon
VICTORIA, BC, Jan. 26, 2004 (Left Coast News) 0 A Homelessness Marathon, a 14-hour radio broadcast,
will begin at sunset on February 12 and continue through sunrise the next day. It will originate from the streets of Montréal and will include panel discussions, an open microphone, short pre-produced pieces, and live call-ins via a toll-free number. Canada will link up with the US based Homelessness Marathon broadcast (now airing for its seventh year) for at least one hour. This Marathon will provide an opportunity for homeless people and their advocates to have a nationwide discussion. The Homelessness Marathon is available for free to all non-commercial broadcasters. http://www.ckut.ca/homeless.html .
NFPs / NGOs / Volunteerism
Nanaimo / Oceanside Forum and Training Session on Volunteerism
NANAIMO, BC, Jan. 28, 2004 (Volunteer Nanaimo)The British Columbia Network wants to hear from you. Your ideas on volunteerism will be incorporated into a volunteer involvement plan reflective of issues in British Columbia. Your thoughts and concerns will help to further the goals of the Canada Volunteerism Initiative (CVI). The goals of the CVI are: to encourage the Canadians to participate in voluntary organizations, to improve the capacity of organizations to benefit from the contributions of volunteers, to enhance the experience of volunteering. Forum and Training Session on Volunteerism: February 18, 2004 - 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Workshop hosted by: Oceanside Volunteer Centre and Volunteer Nanaimo. Sponsored by: BC Local Network of the Canada Volunteerism Initiative.
Nanaimo / Oceanside Forum and Training Session on Volunteerism
NANAIMO, BC, Jan. 28, 2004 (Volunteer Nanaimo)The British Columbia Network wants to hear from you. Your ideas on volunteerism will be incorporated into a volunteer involvement plan reflective of issues in British Columbia. Your thoughts and concerns will help to further the goals of the Canada Volunteerism Initiative (CVI). The goals of the CVI are: to encourage the Canadians to participate in voluntary organizations, to improve the capacity of organizations to benefit from the contributions of volunteers, to enhance the experience of volunteering. Forum and Training Session on Volunteerism: February 18, 2004 - 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Workshop hosted by: Oceanside Volunteer Centre and Volunteer Nanaimo. Sponsored by: BC Local Network of the Canada Volunteerism Initiative.
Community Radio / Aternative Media
Jumping Chly's!!
NANAIMO, BC, Jan. 28, 2004 (Slice of Lime #11, by Randyn Siebold) - Growth and good times continue to flourish at CHLY Radio Malaspina. Possibly Canada's youngest community-campus radio station on the fm dial, CHLY has, in 3 years, come into it's own as an independent media broadcast source for news, community events, and cutting edge musical variety. The website is currently under construction, but is available for webcast listening from anywhere in the world. www.chly.fm .
Jumping Chly's!!
NANAIMO, BC, Jan. 28, 2004 (Slice of Lime #11, by Randyn Siebold) - Growth and good times continue to flourish at CHLY Radio Malaspina. Possibly Canada's youngest community-campus radio station on the fm dial, CHLY has, in 3 years, come into it's own as an independent media broadcast source for news, community events, and cutting edge musical variety. The website is currently under construction, but is available for webcast listening from anywhere in the world. www.chly.fm .
Simple Living / Green Building
Burbophobia cure . . . build it yourself
WEBSITE Reference, Jan. 30, 2004 (www.moxvox.com) - Straw bale construction and other ways to make a life by hand - So you'd like your own homestead, but cookie-cutter 'burbs give you the willies. The cure for all those ugly Tract Mansions? Might be building houses out of materials we live close to, like straw bales and earth. The cure for big heating and cooling and lighting bills? Might be paying attention to the sun and the lay of the land. The cure for owing the rest of our lives to the bank? Might just be knuckling down to do some or all of it ourselves. Read more ...
Burbophobia cure . . . build it yourself
WEBSITE Reference, Jan. 30, 2004 (www.moxvox.com) - Straw bale construction and other ways to make a life by hand - So you'd like your own homestead, but cookie-cutter 'burbs give you the willies. The cure for all those ugly Tract Mansions? Might be building houses out of materials we live close to, like straw bales and earth. The cure for big heating and cooling and lighting bills? Might be paying attention to the sun and the lay of the land. The cure for owing the rest of our lives to the bank? Might just be knuckling down to do some or all of it ourselves. Read more ...
Community Building / Cohousing
What is Cohousing?
WEBSITE Reference, Jan. 31, 2004 (The Cohousing Association of the United States) - Cohousing is the name of a type of collaborative housing that attempts to overcome the alienation of modern subdivisions in which no-one knows their neighbors, and there is no sense of community. Read more ...
What is Cohousing?
WEBSITE Reference, Jan. 31, 2004 (The Cohousing Association of the United States) - Cohousing is the name of a type of collaborative housing that attempts to overcome the alienation of modern subdivisions in which no-one knows their neighbors, and there is no sense of community. Read more ...
Simple Living / Lawns / Urban Design
God's Take on Lawns
WEBSITE Reference, Jan. 30, 2004 (www.richsoil.com) - Imagine the conversation The Creator might have had with St. Francis on the subject of lawns:
God: Hey St. Francis, you know all about gardens and nature. What in the world is going on down there in the Midwest? What happened to the dandelions, violets, thistle and stuff I started eons ago? I had a perfect "no maintenance" garden plan. Those plants grow in any type of soil, withstand drought and multiply with abandon. The nectar from the long lasting blossoms attracts butterflies, honey bees and flocks of songbirds. I expected to see a vast garden of colors by now. But all I see are these green rectangles. Read more ... OR See also Organic Lawn Care For the Cheap and Lazy .
God's Take on Lawns
WEBSITE Reference, Jan. 30, 2004 (www.richsoil.com) - Imagine the conversation The Creator might have had with St. Francis on the subject of lawns:
God: Hey St. Francis, you know all about gardens and nature. What in the world is going on down there in the Midwest? What happened to the dandelions, violets, thistle and stuff I started eons ago? I had a perfect "no maintenance" garden plan. Those plants grow in any type of soil, withstand drought and multiply with abandon. The nectar from the long lasting blossoms attracts butterflies, honey bees and flocks of songbirds. I expected to see a vast garden of colors by now. But all I see are these green rectangles. Read more ... OR See also Organic Lawn Care For the Cheap and Lazy .
Municipalities / Stewardship
Constructed Wetlands
WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 30, 2004 (US EPA) - Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment and Wildlife Habitat: 17 Case Studies (EPA832-R-93-005) - This document provides brief descriptions of 17 wetland treatment systems from across the country that are providing significant water quality benefits while demonstrating additional benefits such as wildlife habitat. The projects described include systems involving both constructed and natural wetlands, habitat creation and restoration, and the improvement of municipal effluent, urban stormwater and river water quality. Read more ...
WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 30, 2004 (US EPA) - Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment and Wildlife Habitat: 17 Case Studies (EPA832-R-93-005) - This document provides brief descriptions of 17 wetland treatment systems from across the country that are providing significant water quality benefits while demonstrating additional benefits such as wildlife habitat. The projects described include systems involving both constructed and natural wetlands, habitat creation and restoration, and the improvement of municipal effluent, urban stormwater and river water quality. Read more ...
