How to Create a Vertical Village
The Transition Network’s Caring Collaborative produced a manual for helping create closer social ties and a greater experience of community in apartments and condominium buildings. Here’s a brief excerpt below,…
Community stories & examples
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TEDx: Take a Street and Build a Community
How well do you know your neighbours? Suburban life is often isolating and rarely a true community experience. In this TEDx talk about Hulbert Street in Perth, Australia, Shani Graham…
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Building Liveable Densities: BRN visits Sydney, Australia
BRN’s Stacy Barter is currently on a knowledge-exchange in Australia, discussing how to make life in “vertical streets” like condominium and apartment buildings more socially engaged and resilient. Today (pictured)…
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Watch the Social Connectedness Grants Webinar
Do you represent a local government with partnerships with your community and health authority in place? Could your community use more resources and support to foster strong social connections, make…
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Transition Streets Program
Transition Victoria pioneered the Transition Streets program. Watch a video about the first-ever Transition Street, which happened in Vic West. On a Transition Street, neighbours work together to learn how…
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Laughing Allowed! — The Slapstick World of Neighbourhood Activism
See our Laughing Allowed production in action to learn how to playfully explore what we do and don’t like about getting involved in our local communities, and to use physical comedy as a different way of beginning discussions about some of those issues.
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Create a Parklet from a Street
Los Angeles Communities are transforming underused areas of L.A.’s largest public asset—its 7,500 miles of city streets—into active, vibrant, and accessible public spaces with People St, a program of the…
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Wine, Food and a Trojan Horse
These were some of the proven strategies for bringing neighbours together that emerged during a relaxed, collaborative Resilient Streets discussion in Saanich on March 27th: Wine, food, and a good…
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Resilient Streets Projects Getting Going!
On March 6th we had another meeting for Victoria West residents to learn about resilient streets possibilities as well as to network and update each other about their own projects…
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Building Thriving, Resilient Communities
This collection of books, online resources, trainings and courses was assembled by members and allies of the Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory (TRCC), who share a vision of a world that…
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Unlocking Opportunities in the Collaborative Economy
In this podcast, April Rinne, Chief Strategy Officer with Collaborative Lab and a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, introduces the fundamental principles of the collaborative economy and…
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Preparing for Climate Change Report
The New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance is a network of policymakers, public and private sector practitioners, academics, and nongovernmental and business leaders organized to build climate change preparedness capacity in…
