Village Vancouver and Vancouver Peak Oil are pleased to welcome Richard Heinberg to Vancouver as part of the CoDev World Community Film Festival. Richard is one of the world’s most effective exponents of the urgent need to move away from fossil fuels and towards a post-growth economy.

Author of 10 books, including 2010′s The End of Growth, his wry, unflinching approach addresses challenges such as climate change, peak oil, economic instability, and food insecurity.

He exposes the tenuousness of our current way of life, while exploring governmental responses and promising grassroots models in community resilience, including the Transition Town Movement and the Occupy Movement. Heinberg offers a radical vision for a truly sustainable future.

More information about Richard Heinberg can be found on his website: richardheinberg.com.

JOIN US – FEB 10, 2012 5pm – 7pm
Langara College – Theater 5, Room 130
100 W 49th, Vancouver, BC
Admission to the festival opening lecture is by donation
Please register thru Langara 604.323.5322 (CRN 50966) or RSVP here.

The event is cosponsored by Village Vancouver and Vancouver Peak Oil. You don’t need to attend the film festival to attend Richard’s presentation. (Though we encourage you to go – it’s a great festival!)

Village Vancouver and Vancouver Peak Oil are pleased to welcome Nicole Foss, aka Stoneleigh, of The Automatic Earth back to talk about the future of our economy. She packed a lecture hall at Langara College last year with tales of impending economic collapse.

Now, after the Occupy Movement launched last fall, she has a new upbeat tone and theme, The Storm Surge of Decentralization. This is the 99%’s reaction to what we now know about the Ponzi schemes embedded in our modern financial systems, and changes have already begun.

Nicole Foss is a globally-sought issues leader on transition and an expert on the macro-economics of resilience.

JOIN US TO HEAR NICOLE
Thursday Feb. 2, 2012
7pm – 9pm
Langara College – Theater 5, Room 130
100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC
By donation at the door.
Please register thru Langara 604.323.5322 (CRN 50965) or
RSVP here.

Time: May 31, 2011 from 7pm to 9pm
Location: Langara College Theatre A122b in “A” bldg
Street: 100 W. 49th
City/Town: Vancouver
Phone: for more info: Ross ross@villagevancouver.ca

Nicole Foss spoke at last year’s annual Transition Gathering in England and impressed the heck out of everyone with her very powerful talk.

A Century of Challenges is a comprehensive analysis of energy, finance and the interaction between the two from a big picture perspective. Read the complete Post.

Love Vancouver, Love Your Planet is a green art, music and lifestyle festival that comes alive on June 5, 2011 in the Olympic Village along the beautiful seawall in False Creek. The festival celebrates and encourages Vancouverites to build a more sustainable future for the city, by bringing communities together to share ideas and celebrate innovations.

Love Vancouver, Love Your Planet celebrates a fun, green and healthy Vancouver in many ways, including outdoor concerts, sustainable art installations, eco-fair, local food stalls, eco-stewardship showcase and much more.

Love Vancouver, Love Your Planet coincides with UN World Environment Day (June 5) and kicks off Canadian Environment Week (June 5- 11).
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Olympic Village
11am – 6pm

Vancouver conference – 2011

Vancouver de-growth 2011 conference
Simon Fraser Harbor Center – June 3 – 4th.
515 West Hastings Street

If continuous growth on a finite planet is impossible then what are the options ?

The problems associated with growth based economies have been increasingly recognized (declining quality of life, environmental degradation) and concepts of degrowth are finding increasing acceptance as a means to deal with these issues. Yet action lags behind acceptance and acknowledgement. The purpose of Degrowth 2011 is to bring together leading experts and local contributors in dialogue with audience members to translate degrowth concepts into action.

SATURDAY FEB. 19
1:30 PM – 4 PM
BCIT downtown 555 Seymour St., Vancouver

If you are an environmentally-focused BC resident who recently joined the BC Liberal party as part of our membership drive, then you are welcome to attend our town hall / membership convention. Be part of deciding who will become the next Premier of BC – because it’s likely we control enough votes to determine the outcome!

Our plan is to hold an intimate town/convention of the BC Green Liberal Caucus, carried by live web-streaming to our members in the rest of the province. If you cannot join us in person, then please RSVP above with the “Live-streaming” ticket, so we know how many members will participate. But if you can come in person, we want you there!

Here’s the schedule (note that this is a revised time to follow the candidates’ debate on Shaw TV):

1:30 p.m. - Meet and greet, light refreshments

2:00 – 3:30 - Roundtable Q&A with whichever candidates choose to come and try to win our votes!  CURRENTLY SCHEDULED:  Mike de Jong at 2 p.m., George Abbott at 3 p.m.  Waiting on word from the other candidates.  This may be your ONLY CHANCE to hear the candidates speak on environmental issues!  Don’t miss it!

We will supplement these appearances with whatever information we’ve been able to come up with about the candidates’ positions on environmental issues.  Non-partisan NGO’s like Organizing For Change and Conservation Voters of BC are working on getting information, which they’ll make public.  Candidates and non-caucus members will be asked to leave at the conclusion of the roundtable.

NOTE: Live-streaming will end at 3:30 so that caucus votes and decisions are not public information

3:30 – 4:00 p.m. - Members-only review of candidate statements and positions, and group discussion.
At the end of this review, we intend to decide on a recommendation to support a candidate (this may include a ranking of candidates to match the BC Liberal voting procedure).  We will hold that recommendation till the following day, to gather input from caucus members who watched the convention via live-streaming, then we will issue a press release and spread our recommendation to all BCGL members province-wide.

Please RSVP now, so we can ensure that we have enough space for everyone!

See you there for this historic greening of the BC Liberal Party!

Monday Oct. 18, 2010

SFU 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, Room 1400

Cost: By donationRegister for this event here.

Peak Shrink – Kathy McMahon

In a small liberal town in Massachusetts’ Berkshires, Kathy McMahon, Psy.D, makes her living spicing up people’s sex lives. But arguably her most prescient work is not as a couple’s therapist; it’s as an online advice columnist for people who are freaked out about the coming peak-oil crisis. Her nom de web is Peak Oil Shrink. With humour and insight, clinical psychologist Kathy McMahon addresses a few of the major challenges of our time and discusses why “all or nothing” thinking is cutting short a more serious conversation about what we value, how our values dictate our behavior, and what we need to do to prepare for a future that may be very different from what’s being predicted.

Sponsored by:
Vancouver Peak Oil
Village Vancouver
Board of Change
Cool North Shore
How to Boil a Frog

Vancouver Peak Oil Meet-up Group

Fri – Sat October 15 – 16

from 9 am – 5 pm

Langara College, 100 West 49 Avenue, Vancouver

Co-sponsored by Langara College Continuing Studies and Village Vancouver

Join leaders of the transition movement in Vancouver for a 2-day workshop and dialogue introducing the principles, steps and lessons of the successful Transition Town model of local response to global challenges.

· What are the lessons for activists and concerned citizens?
· How can we increase resilience in every neighbourhood?
· What are the ways we might collaborate to get the impacts that are needed? Read the complete Post.

March 11, 6:30-9pm
Rocky Mountain Flatbread Co
1255 Lynn Valley Road, No. Vancouver

Writer-producer-activist Jon Cooksey will mix humor, credit crisis metaphors and hard-hitting facts to show how climate change is only one symptom of an even messier problem: overshoot. “Overshoot means too many people using up too little planet. So in the end, we either need fewer people, more planets, or we’re going to have use less stuff. Or all three. I dib Mars.” As Antoine de Saint Exupery said, “if you want to get people to build a boat, make them yearn for the sea”; with humor and hope, Jon shows not only the water rising, but also the fun to be had sailing the seas of social change.

FORMAT:
6:30 Mingling and appetizers
7:00 presentation & Dialogue
8:50 Socializing and connecting

To register, please invite a friend and send names and emails to: registration@coolnorthshore.ca
Please bring $5 to cover admission and appetizers.

For more information: http://www.coolnorthshore.ca/action/cool-drinks-jon-cooksey

Cool Drinks is a monthly social and learning gathering to connect and inspire individuals interested in climate change in our community. On the third Thursday of each month, we invite a ‘provocateur’ to share knowledge and perspective on a climate change-related topic. Supported small group dialogue and informal networking allow participants to push the ideas further, and get the information and support they need to act.

MORE DETAILS:

BC – Award-winning writer and producer Jon Cooksey will speak about the impact that humans are having on the planet – including global warming, energy issues, and other light topics.

Cooksey is currently at work on a feature-length eco-comedy called How to Boil a Frog (HTBAF), which chronicles his personal, four-year adventure as a filmmaker, activist and, above all, a father driven, as he puts it, “to make sure my daughter’s going to have a future beyond living on a raft with the last polar bear.”

HTBAF mixes humor, credit crisis metaphors and hard-hitting facts to show how climate change is just one symptom of an even messier problem: overshoot. “Overshoot means too many people using up too little planet,” says Cooksey, “so in the end, we either need fewer people, more planets, or we’re going to have use less stuff. Or all three. I dib Mars.”

Cooksey plans to explore not only the facts about the mess we’re in, but the psychological effect it’s having on us. “We talk to people about these subjects like they’re rational – like they’re calculators – but who among us isn’t already being driven around the bend by daily life?” Cooksey asks. “Pay my bills, raise my kids, deal with my relationship – or find me one – then talk to me about changing my lightbulbs to keep the world from bursting into flame. People feel the disconnect.”

HTBAF seeks to paint a better future than the one we have now, and as Cooksey puts it, “a lot better than the one we’re going to have if we keep doing what we’re doing.” But he doesn’t feel more facts will do the job. “Antoine de Saint Exupery said, if you want to get people to build a boat, make them yearn for the sea. There’s a fantastic ocean out there, full of friends and fun and meaning and great music. I’d rather be sailing on it than drown in it. How about you?”

GROWING OUT OF HUNGER

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Thursday, March 25, 7-9pm
Croatian Cultural Centre

3250 Commercial Drive (and 14th)
Vancouver, BC
(Transit: Take the #20 Victoria bus from the Commercial/Broadway skytrain station)

This event is free, however pre-registration is required
Click here to RSVP

The Inaugural Welch Community Dialogue presents:
GROWING OUT OF HUNGER
featuring Will Allen, CEO, Growing Power Community Food Centre, Milwaukee & Chicago

Find out how this former professional basketball player, corporate sales executive and urban farmer is feeding 10,000 people and starting a community food revolution out of his inner-city farms in Milwaukee and Chicago. Winner of the $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship in 2008, Will Allen is transforming the cultivation, production, and delivery of healthy foods to underserved urban populations http://www.growingpower.org/blog/

Stay tuned for more information on this event as it becomes available at http://www.sfu.ca/dialogue/study+practice/welch+dialogue.html

In partnership with the Real Estate Foundation of BC and SFU Centre for Dialogue (Planning Cities as if Food Matters)

Sponsored by the Lis and Bruce Welch Community Award

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