Friday, September 30, 2005
Events / Community Preparedness – Oct. 31 – Victoria, BC
Promoting Resilient Communities for Disaster Recovery, Locally and Globally
VICTORIA, BC, Sept. 2005 (Canadian Red Cross, BC Region) - 20 Countries: 1 Opportunity – This one day conference will examine how the theme of Creating Resilient Communities is and can be implemented around the world. Participants will hear from prominent keynote speakers and have an opportunity to engage in small group sessions to grapple with the implementation of these resiliency concepts. Through collaborative activities attendees will discuss pre- and post- disaster strategies to enhance community capacity. This one day workshop will focus on the emerging practice of community resiliency by leveraging the experience of 20 colleagues from more than 20 countries. Your $65 registration fee includes lunch, refreshments and afternoon reception. Toll free – 1-800-661-9055. To be held in the MEWS Ballroom, Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC.
Promoting Resilient Communities for Disaster Recovery, Locally and Globally
VICTORIA, BC, Sept. 2005 (Canadian Red Cross, BC Region) - 20 Countries: 1 Opportunity – This one day conference will examine how the theme of Creating Resilient Communities is and can be implemented around the world. Participants will hear from prominent keynote speakers and have an opportunity to engage in small group sessions to grapple with the implementation of these resiliency concepts. Through collaborative activities attendees will discuss pre- and post- disaster strategies to enhance community capacity. This one day workshop will focus on the emerging practice of community resiliency by leveraging the experience of 20 colleagues from more than 20 countries. Your $65 registration fee includes lunch, refreshments and afternoon reception. Toll free – 1-800-661-9055. To be held in the MEWS Ballroom, Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC.
Empowerment / Health
Freely Shared Health Information
PALO ALTO, CA, Sept. 2005 (HealthWrights) - HealthWrights is a non-profit organization committed to advancing the health, basic rights, social equality, and self-determination of disadvantaged persons and groups. We believe that health for all people is only possible in a global society where the guiding principles are sharing, mutual assistance, and respect for cultural and individual differences. http://www.healthwrights.org.
Freely Shared Health Information
PALO ALTO, CA, Sept. 2005 (HealthWrights) - HealthWrights is a non-profit organization committed to advancing the health, basic rights, social equality, and self-determination of disadvantaged persons and groups. We believe that health for all people is only possible in a global society where the guiding principles are sharing, mutual assistance, and respect for cultural and individual differences. http://www.healthwrights.org.
Local Living Economies
BALLE and Local First Work with Conscientious Innovation (CI)
VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 30, 2005 (BALLE BC) - As part of the launch of the Local First Campaign in partnership with the Vancouver Economic Development Commission, the City of Vancouver Sustainability Office and the Business Improvement Associations, BALLE is working with Conscientious Innovation (CI,) a local brand and marketing agency for "integrity brands". Look for the development of a new BALLE brand, and new marketing materials to go along with it. Yes, we're finally getting a brochure! 'Take It Easy' This Fall/Winter Seven events over the next seven months take us deeper into the building blocks of: Clothing; Locally Grown Food; Media; Community Capital; Energy; Transportation; Green Building. We kicked it off in September with Fashion High, an event focusing on local design and fashion and educating the public about what's available in their own town and why it's important to buy it local. Our next event You Are Where You Eat on October 20th focuses on the locally grown food system. Join us at Subeez Cafe from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. For more information about these and any BALLE events, go to www.ballebc.com.
BALLE and Local First Work with Conscientious Innovation (CI)
VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 30, 2005 (BALLE BC) - As part of the launch of the Local First Campaign in partnership with the Vancouver Economic Development Commission, the City of Vancouver Sustainability Office and the Business Improvement Associations, BALLE is working with Conscientious Innovation (CI,) a local brand and marketing agency for "integrity brands". Look for the development of a new BALLE brand, and new marketing materials to go along with it. Yes, we're finally getting a brochure! 'Take It Easy' This Fall/Winter Seven events over the next seven months take us deeper into the building blocks of: Clothing; Locally Grown Food; Media; Community Capital; Energy; Transportation; Green Building. We kicked it off in September with Fashion High, an event focusing on local design and fashion and educating the public about what's available in their own town and why it's important to buy it local. Our next event You Are Where You Eat on October 20th focuses on the locally grown food system. Join us at Subeez Cafe from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. For more information about these and any BALLE events, go to www.ballebc.com.
Sustainable Neighbourhoods
Check The Utne Reader Articles
ELIST Reference, Sept, 30, 2005 (Greenbuilding Listserve) - Heads up: The current edition of Utne has several articles on the 'green' and 'sustainable' movements. They're very positive about what is happening on many local levels - for instance, one city, Portland I think, has already lowered emissions further than the Kyoto protocols specified for their end target. It cheers me up considerably to see reports of all these grass-roots and local initiatives that are successful, growing and spreading. And I think all of us who take this seriously have a great need to be cheered up some days. ~ marilyn, Cybercrone
Check The Utne Reader Articles
ELIST Reference, Sept, 30, 2005 (Greenbuilding Listserve) - Heads up: The current edition of Utne has several articles on the 'green' and 'sustainable' movements. They're very positive about what is happening on many local levels - for instance, one city, Portland I think, has already lowered emissions further than the Kyoto protocols specified for their end target. It cheers me up considerably to see reports of all these grass-roots and local initiatives that are successful, growing and spreading. And I think all of us who take this seriously have a great need to be cheered up some days. ~ marilyn, Cybercrone
NGOs / NFPs
Network Learning
WEB Reference, Sept. 2005 (Network Learning) - Welcome to networklearning – The purpose of this site is to make resources available, free, to NGOs working in the development or humanitarian fields. We make or find manuals that can help NGOs build skills, and suggest other websites with good resources. We particularly welcome those working alone or in a national NGO in Africa, Asia, South America and the ex-USSR. http://www.networklearning.org.
Network Learning
WEB Reference, Sept. 2005 (Network Learning) - Welcome to networklearning – The purpose of this site is to make resources available, free, to NGOs working in the development or humanitarian fields. We make or find manuals that can help NGOs build skills, and suggest other websites with good resources. We particularly welcome those working alone or in a national NGO in Africa, Asia, South America and the ex-USSR. http://www.networklearning.org.
Events / Cooperatives – Nov. 17 – 19, Montreal, Quebec
Building Strong Worker Co-ops: 2005 Conference of the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation
CALGARY, AB, Sept. 2005 (CWCF) - Dear all, Attached please find the detailed agenda, registration information & form for the November 2005 Conference of the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation. This year's Conference, with the theme of "Building Strong Worker Co-ops", features speakers such as Hélène Simard from the CCQ and Kevin Thomson from La Siembra Co-op, as well as many practical and interesting workshops, and a focus on integrating youth into our movement. We believe it will be an exciting opportunity for worker co-operators and worker co-op developers --to learn, network and take part in building the movement for workplace democracy. Merci!, Hazel http://www.canadianworker.coop/english/index_e.html.
Building Strong Worker Co-ops: 2005 Conference of the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation
CALGARY, AB, Sept. 2005 (CWCF) - Dear all, Attached please find the detailed agenda, registration information & form for the November 2005 Conference of the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation. This year's Conference, with the theme of "Building Strong Worker Co-ops", features speakers such as Hélène Simard from the CCQ and Kevin Thomson from La Siembra Co-op, as well as many practical and interesting workshops, and a focus on integrating youth into our movement. We believe it will be an exciting opportunity for worker co-operators and worker co-op developers --to learn, network and take part in building the movement for workplace democracy. Merci!, Hazel http://www.canadianworker.coop/english/index_e.html.
Sustainable Neighbourhoods
Study Finds What Makes a Neighborhood Foot-friendly
SEATTLE, WA, Sep. 27, 2005 (Seattle PI) - When Karen Wolf walks in her Bryant neighborhood, she often takes along her "old lady shopping cart" to wheel her groceries home from the Metropolitan Market. Richard Gelb borrows his daughter's "kid scooter" to run errands on Phinney Ridge. That Wolf and Gelb are in sync about leaving their cars at home for local shopping trips is not surprising. Both are senior urban planning advisers who have been involved for the past two years in a King County study about making city and suburban neighborhoods more walkable. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/242396_urban27.html.
Study Finds What Makes a Neighborhood Foot-friendly
SEATTLE, WA, Sep. 27, 2005 (Seattle PI) - When Karen Wolf walks in her Bryant neighborhood, she often takes along her "old lady shopping cart" to wheel her groceries home from the Metropolitan Market. Richard Gelb borrows his daughter's "kid scooter" to run errands on Phinney Ridge. That Wolf and Gelb are in sync about leaving their cars at home for local shopping trips is not surprising. Both are senior urban planning advisers who have been involved for the past two years in a King County study about making city and suburban neighborhoods more walkable. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/242396_urban27.html.
NFPs / NGOs
Streaming Grantmaker Knowledge
WEB Reference, Sept. 30. 2005 (Nonprofit Online News) - A Procedure for Making a Foundation's Web Site Content Available as RSS - This document describes one approach to making a foundation's content available in RSS channels, as derived from the first steps taken by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation in the Fall of 2004. What is RSS? http://news.gilbert.org/StreamingKnowledge.
Streaming Grantmaker Knowledge
WEB Reference, Sept. 30. 2005 (Nonprofit Online News) - A Procedure for Making a Foundation's Web Site Content Available as RSS - This document describes one approach to making a foundation's content available in RSS channels, as derived from the first steps taken by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation in the Fall of 2004. What is RSS? http://news.gilbert.org/StreamingKnowledge.
Personal Impact / Community Radio
Supporting Alternative Media
ELIST Reference, Oct. 2, 2005 (CHLY 101.7 fm, Nanaimo, BC) – Support community radio in your town! MEMBERSHIP DRIVE 2005 – In Nanaimo, our drive happens:October 3rd to 10th, 2005. You are invited to become a member of the RadioMalaspina Society. A pledge of only $20 will make you a new or renewing member in your community/campus radio station. Membership allows you to take part in the shaping of this communal media outlet. You can vote for the Board of Directors, at the upcoming AGM on October 27th, gain valuable experience volunteering in the station, or even submit a show proposal to become a CHLY programmer. Membership also allows you to know that you are supporting the growth and evolution of independent media throughout the world, that you are supporting talented artists in your owncommunity, and that you are helping to give voice to the marginalized in our society.Don't wait another day. Become a member of the (Radio Malaspina Society) this week. Let your voice be heard n chorus with your neighbours! http://www.chly.ca.
Supporting Alternative Media
ELIST Reference, Oct. 2, 2005 (CHLY 101.7 fm, Nanaimo, BC) – Support community radio in your town! MEMBERSHIP DRIVE 2005 – In Nanaimo, our drive happens:October 3rd to 10th, 2005. You are invited to become a member of the RadioMalaspina Society. A pledge of only $20 will make you a new or renewing member in your community/campus radio station. Membership allows you to take part in the shaping of this communal media outlet. You can vote for the Board of Directors, at the upcoming AGM on October 27th, gain valuable experience volunteering in the station, or even submit a show proposal to become a CHLY programmer. Membership also allows you to know that you are supporting the growth and evolution of independent media throughout the world, that you are supporting talented artists in your owncommunity, and that you are helping to give voice to the marginalized in our society.Don't wait another day. Become a member of the (Radio Malaspina Society) this week. Let your voice be heard n chorus with your neighbours! http://www.chly.ca.
Exemplary Resources / Health Ed
Teaching-aids At Low Cost
WEB Reference, Sept. 2005 (TALC) - TALC’s main objective is to promote the health of children and advance medical knowledge and teaching in the UK and throughout the world by providing and developing educational material. Teaching-aids At Low Cost (TALC) is a registered UK charity (no: 279858) which was founded in 1965 by Professor David Morley. The majority of TALC’s work is focused on the production and supply of low cost books, which includes many essential texts on tropical medicine, nursing, surgery, HIV/AIDS, child-to-child teaching books and infectious diseases. TALC also provides other teaching aids including 35mm slides sets, PictureCard training packs, rehydration spoons, child growth monitoring equipment. TALC has also started to develop health information on CD-ROM as part of the e-TALC project. Many of TALC’s material can also be viewed or purchased within the Resource Centre housed at the Library of the Institute of Child Health 30 Guilford Street London. http://www.talcuk.org/about/index.htm.
Teaching-aids At Low Cost
WEB Reference, Sept. 2005 (TALC) - TALC’s main objective is to promote the health of children and advance medical knowledge and teaching in the UK and throughout the world by providing and developing educational material. Teaching-aids At Low Cost (TALC) is a registered UK charity (no: 279858) which was founded in 1965 by Professor David Morley. The majority of TALC’s work is focused on the production and supply of low cost books, which includes many essential texts on tropical medicine, nursing, surgery, HIV/AIDS, child-to-child teaching books and infectious diseases. TALC also provides other teaching aids including 35mm slides sets, PictureCard training packs, rehydration spoons, child growth monitoring equipment. TALC has also started to develop health information on CD-ROM as part of the e-TALC project. Many of TALC’s material can also be viewed or purchased within the Resource Centre housed at the Library of the Institute of Child Health 30 Guilford Street London. http://www.talcuk.org/about/index.htm.
Local Living Communities / Climate Change
Relocalize Now! Getting Ready for Climate Change and the End of Cheap Oil
BOOK Reference, Sept. 2005 (PCI) - There are many books on the market which address environmental and some resource problems. There are some books which claim to address climate change. There are very few books which offer direct responses to global oil peak and North American natural gas peak. As far as we know no books at all, anywhere, besides Richard Heinberg’s (Fall 2005, New Society Publishers) even begin to face up to the full panoply of oil peak, global warming, rampant over-population, overshoot, and biosphere destruction and both examine the deep primary causes, and accept the logical implication that industrial civilisation is not a long-term system for humans or Earth… Roughly a quarter of Relocalize Now! is devoted to brief but deep and powerful analyses of the main problems; in the next quarter we outline a transition strategy called Global Relocalization and sketch the lineaments of the large measures such as the Parallel Public Infrastructure; the final half of the book consists of specific projects for local communities to begin acting on.
http://www.postcarbon.org/store/relocalize.
Relocalize Now! Getting Ready for Climate Change and the End of Cheap Oil
BOOK Reference, Sept. 2005 (PCI) - There are many books on the market which address environmental and some resource problems. There are some books which claim to address climate change. There are very few books which offer direct responses to global oil peak and North American natural gas peak. As far as we know no books at all, anywhere, besides Richard Heinberg’s (Fall 2005, New Society Publishers) even begin to face up to the full panoply of oil peak, global warming, rampant over-population, overshoot, and biosphere destruction and both examine the deep primary causes, and accept the logical implication that industrial civilisation is not a long-term system for humans or Earth… Roughly a quarter of Relocalize Now! is devoted to brief but deep and powerful analyses of the main problems; in the next quarter we outline a transition strategy called Global Relocalization and sketch the lineaments of the large measures such as the Parallel Public Infrastructure; the final half of the book consists of specific projects for local communities to begin acting on.
http://www.postcarbon.org/store/relocalize.
Local Living Communities
The Community Solution
WEB Reference, Sept. 30, 2005 (PCI) - The Community Solution is a program of Community Service, Inc. Community Service is dedicated to the development, growth and enhancement of small local communities. We envision a country where the population is distributed in small communities that are sustainable, diverse and culturally sophisticated. http://www.communitysolution.org/.
The Community Solution
WEB Reference, Sept. 30, 2005 (PCI) - The Community Solution is a program of Community Service, Inc. Community Service is dedicated to the development, growth and enhancement of small local communities. We envision a country where the population is distributed in small communities that are sustainable, diverse and culturally sophisticated. http://www.communitysolution.org/.
