Story: Eagle Island’s Cool Neighbourhood
Eagle Island is a small-scale example of how leadership can result in action on climate change. Eagle Island is a community of 30 homes, located within the municipality of West…
Author: Building Resilient Neighbourhoods
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.
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Video: Party with a Purpose!
This four-minute video lightly “dramatizes” a party where people get together and have fun while reducing energy usage and GHGs. Click here to watch the video.
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Video: Exploring Community Resilience
This two-minute animation summarises some of the key messages from the handbook ‘Exploring Community Resilience’, available for free download from fieryspirits.com Click here to watch the video.
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Edmonton’s Neighbourhood Engagement Strategy Toolkit
The City of Edmonton has produced a short toolkit that has been created to provide you with tips and tools for bringing the people in your neighbourhood together. Click here…
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Guide to Community Engagement Methods
Engaging Queenslanders: A Guide to Community Engagement Methods and Techniques is a report from the State of Queensland, 2005. Click here to read the guide.
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Victoria’s Vital Signs
Victoria Foundation’s annual “check-up” report evaluates the Capital Region as a place to live, learn, work and grow. It measures the health of the city and assigns grades in a…
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Vancouver Foundation: Connection & Engagement Report
Vancouver Foundation’s report on their Metro Vancouver survey of connection & engagement. It also includes A Closer Look, a series of mini-reports that detail the survey findings around particular themes….
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Book: Bowling Alone – The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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…
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Book and Interview: Community – The Structure of Belonging
Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block explores the ways communities can transform fragmentation, and six kinds of conversations that can create communal accountability and commitment. Block also describes…
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Transforming Neighbourhoods: Lessons from Local Work in Fifteen Areas
Forward thinking local authorities have been testing innovative models to involve citizens, support local councillors and devolve powers to communities for many years. This report highlights the work of the…
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The Wellbeing and Resilience Measure (WARM)
As public resources shrink it is more important than ever that local areas have ways to think clearly about their priorities and needs. WARM is a new tool from the…
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Bay Area Building Resilience Toolkit
A project of Bay Localize in the Bay Area, California, the Community Resilience Toolkit 2.0 is a collection of online tools to help you understand local impacts of the climate and…