BRN Gets International Recognition
BRN’s own Michelle Colussi is also Canada’s representative to the Transition Towns’ international network of Transition hubs, and in this week’s rundown of significant Transition activities, some of our own…
Resilience
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BRN Engages with Victoria West Community Association Members
We gave a brief presentation and held some discussions with people attending the Victoria West Community Association Annual General Meeting on Nov. 26. Reviewing the notes from the discussion groups,…
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Victoria West Assembly Vibrant and Fun — Esquimalt too!
About 45 people attended our Victoria West “Assembly” on Sunday the 17th, and it was a lot of fun. We presented some of the findings from our surveys and interviews…
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Strengthening Neighbourhood Resilience: Opportunities for Communities and Local Governments
This report highlights some of the research and approaches that have been explored and the lessons that have been emerging during the beginning phases of the Building Resilient Neighbourhoods project.
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Tamarack’s Action for Neighbourhood Change
Tamarack has developed a series of tools that can be used by communities during the key stages in the development of their Action for Neighbourhood Change (or similar) projects. These…
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Step Up to Leadership: A Curriculum for Developing Community Leaders
The Step Up to Leadership curriculum intertwines two learning goals: To present content learning about specific topics a novice board member will need to know To provide a learning environment…
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Neighborgoods Sharing Website
NeighborGoods is a safe community where you can save money and resources by sharing stuff with your friends. Need a ladder? Borrow it from your neighbor. Have a bike collecting…
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Climate Access – Sharing that Works
A bridge between research and action. For years, we at TRIG’s Social Capital Project have been hearing from climate practitioners that this is what they need. Those in government and…
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Financing Transition
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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Parallel Pathways of Resilience and Sustainability
This blog post explores what exactly this notion of ‘resilience’ is; what about the topic is making it so popular within the context of city planning; and what connections ‘resilience’…
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Cultivate Community Resilience
In this era of increasingly complex problems and shrinking resources, can we find meaningful and enduring solutions to the challenges we face today as individuals, communities and nations? Welcome to…
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Portland’s Neighbourhood Prosperity Initiative
As part of the implementation of the Neighborhood Economic Development (NED) Strategy, the City of Portland and Portland Development Commission have established the Neighborhood Prosperity Initiative (NPI). The goal of…
