Young Agrarians & Kootenay Farm School Present: Are you a farmer looking for land? Are you a landowner looking for farmers? You’re invited to a Land Linking Workshop and Potluck! Join us Saturday, November 16th from 2pm – 6pm in Creston, BC for a workshop on the nuts and bolts of land linking. If lucky, [...]

The voices of corporations tell us hundreds of times a day, in ways we may not notice anymore, how to relate to each other and to ourselves; what to buy, how to feel, how to perceive and the kind of person to aspire to be. Can we use the theatre to become aware of these [...]

Position Overview The Nelson Good Neighbour Program is seeking an experienced contractor with a passion for non-profit organizations and an ability to work independently to administer and coordinate a growing community mediation program. Based in Nelson, this is a quarter-time (10 hours/week) position for a period of 6 months with the possibility of extension. The [...]

On a Transition Street, neighbours work together to learn how they can increase their self-reliance in five areas:  local food, energy use, transportation, water and waste. Five topics, seven meetings and each household creates their own individual action plan.  Some groups also decide on a group project they can do together. This summer 3 pilot [...]

This quote comes from a commencement address at a private school in Silicon Valley, by Nipun Mehta, former Silicon Valley entrepreneur and now founder of non-profit ServiceSpace. The students chose him as their commencement speaker.  Find out why by reading his speech, “Miserable and Magical, a Graduation Speech for paradoxical times.

CBT is renewing its social, economic and environmental strategic plans. In the first phase, people were encouraged to fill out an online questionnaire.  Through the first phase of CBT’s online survey, participants came up with over 10,000 individual thoughts and ideas about social, economic and environmental issues. Now it’s time to show us what’s most [...]

On May 6, at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, David Suzuki gave a lecture titled “Time is Running Out: Ecology or Economics?” After an hour of eloquently describing our environmental predicament, in the Q & A period, students asked for ideas on how to face the future, and Suzuki praised the Transition movement as [...]

At our Annual General Meeting on May 21, the board was elected by acclaim. Two new members have joined our board.  Welcome to Heather Keczan and Leslie Payne! Current board members will continue to serve:  Andre Piver, Carolee Colter, Letty Bartels, Marvin Work, Michael Dailly and Michael Healy. Andre may be relocating but as long [...]

From the Peak Prosperity blog:   Two of the most important research initiatives to study well-being over time were the Grant Study and Lewis Terman‘s Genetic Study of Genius. The Grant Study followed 237 male subjects for 68 years. Terman’s work began in 1921 and is still ongoing (in fact, it’s the oldest and longest-running [...]