A series of articles from YES! Magazine on how we can build local economies that are strong enough to include everyone. Ongoing coverage from 2013 Local Economies Reporting Fellow, Laura Flanders of GRITtv.
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods (BRN) is a collaborative effort to help create more resilient communities and neighbourhoods in British Columbia, Canada. It is currently delivered and hosted by the non-profit Building Resilient Neighbourhoods Society.
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam. Based on vast data, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and…
We are a group of people who live or work in the Gorge Tillicum community. We have a two-fold purpose: Sharing information about, and practical support for, various aspects of…
The Community Resilience Manual: A Resource for Rural Recovery and Renewal from the Canadian Centre for Community Renewal. On the basis of research into proven strategies of socio-economic revitalization, including…
The goal of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance’s Scaling Innovation for Sustainability (SIS) Project is to study the scaling out and scaling up of innovations that re-localize the economy…
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The Cinderella story of a plain & lonely concrete wall in the Vic West neighbourhood of Victoria, BC that became beautiful with the help of its neighbours, a giant chicken,…