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Neighbourhood ‘Living Rooms’ on the move
The Building Resilient Neighbourhoods project has been out in the community this summer setting up neighbourhood “living rooms” and chatting with residents about opportunities to connect with their neighbours and…
Neighbourhood Games
Playing for Keeps is developing healthier, more active, and better connected communities – through play! If your neighbourhood has lost touch with play and fun, you’ve come to the right…
Resilientville Role-Playing Game
Resilientville is a role-playing exercise developed by the Canadian Community for Dialogue and Deliberation which advances participant awareness of the short and long term benefits of problem solving at the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’…
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…