From VPO member Chris Bouris:

This is the link to a video of Bob Williams, a member of the Vancity Board of Directors, speaking at an even at the Rhizome Cafe, Vancouver, March 22 2007 entitled: “The Possible City: Cooperatives in a Sustainable Economy”. about co-operatives in 2007. This excerpt is specifically about the need to make the bureaucracy of our city back into the meritocracy it once was.

The full presentation can be heard and seen here. Note the scrolling table of contents immediately underneath the video player window. When clicked upon, will redirect the video playback to the corresponding point in time of the video archive associated to that chapter. Kind of handy. Useful for one paragraph summaries, quotes for media and groups, and the like.
And campaigns of any kind.

An interview with Anthony Perl (of SFU) and co-author Richard Gilbert about their book “Transport Revolutions”.

I’ve been alluding to a BC startup company that has developed a process to convert organic material into bio-fuels. CBC’s The National filmed the story in May and aired the story July 14th, 2008. It’s taken awhile to get the video, convert, and post to YouTube, but here it is.

Two things to note, 1) the 6 second sound bite of fame is about the only part of a 5 min. interview that I said rather reluctantly. It’s corny and somewhat misleading, but I guess it sounds sensational (two guesses on who is BC_EE). And, I feel somewhat vindicated as another member of the renewable energy industry made the same comparison; 2) we know biomass energy is not going to solve our problems of an oil depleted world. It’s just another “silver BB” in the multitude of methods and solutions.

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I watched  scores of footage of town hall meetings, speeches, press conferences and political ads by the two candidates. And there was a strange echo, something I’ve heard before from someone I don’t quite like. So I rewound back to Bush’s 2007 State of the Union and here’s what I found.

The video is a little old but more relevant than ever. Enjoy!