Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century is a groundbreaking compendium of the most innovative solutions, ideas and inventions emerging today for building a sustainable, livable, prosperous future.
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Community Planning is an introductory textbook that provides a thorough examination of the comprehensive planning process as practiced in the United States today. The authors consider all aspects of the comprehensive plan: its elements, adoption, and implementation.
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The Celebration of Trails is an annual autumn celebration of trails, events and communities in east Central Ontario. Exciting trail … Continue reading Celebration of Trails
Affordability and Choice Today (ACT) encourages regulatory reform in Canadian municipalities that leads to greater housing affordability, choice and quality. Since 1990, ACT projects have provided solutions and lessons learned that contribute to advancing sustainable development through alternative development standards, design guidelines, infill housing, secondary suites, conversion of office buildings to residential and more.
At the beginning of this year, Zane Parker moved to 10 acres of land in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver … Continue reading Lichenology: Thinking about policy, language, community, art…and lichen
The authors examine the direct and indirect impacts of sprawl on human health and well-being, and discuss the prospects for improving public health through alternative approaches to design, land use, and transportation.
Creating a new culture of living peacefully with each other and the planet is our number one need–and this is the right book at the right time. Creating a Life Together will help community founders avoid fatal mistakes. I can’t wait to tell people about it. — Hildur Jackson, cofounder, Global Ecovillage Network (GEN); co-editor, Ecovillage Living: Restoring the Earth and Her People
In the decade from 1969 to 1979, Greenpeace evolved from a loosely organized protest-group in the unlikely setting of Vancouver, Canada, into an international phenomenon that went head-to-head against governments and corporations, attracting the support of ordinary citizens alongside celebrities, politicians, writers, musicians and visionaries. Greenpeace is the definitive record of this extraordinary journey, indelibly portrayed by someone who helped make it happen?Pulitzer Prize nominee Rex Weyler.
Drive responsibly and help save the environment, the president of the Canadian Automobile Association said on Monday as the club … Continue reading Auto club steers members to try greener travelling alternatives
The US-based group dotOrganize has released a new study that compiles insights from more than 400 social change groups, technology … Continue reading New report examines use of online technology for social change
A powerful and challenging book, Taking Stands provides a crucial understanding of community change in resource-dependent regions, and helps us to better tackle the complexities of gender and activism as they relate to rural sustainability. Social and environmental geographers, feminist scholars, and those engaged in rural studies, environmental sustainability, community planning, and policy making will find it invaluable.
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Despite international accolades and growing popularity, it may be the end of the road for Toronto’s bicycle lending program. Since … Continue reading Bike share program deflated by money woes
