Village Vancouver

Vancouver's Leader in Transition toward Strong, Resilient, Complete Communities

Villages & Working Groups

Have a burning desire to advance ecological sustainability and social well-being in Vancouver? Check out our Villages and Working Groups, the centres of creativity where collective dialogue leads to inspired action!

For inquiries or to get involved with a Village or Working Group, become a member of this site and then request access as directed or contact the Group Convenor shown.

Current Villages

Kitsilano Transition Village

Main Street Neighbourhood

Transition Cedar Cottage


Working Groups

Administration and Support
Arts and Celebration
Built Environment
Community Gardening
Urban Market Gardens
Economies & Livelihoods
Energy
Food
Government Relations
Health
Heart and Soul
Learning Opportunities
Outreach
Transition Village Building
Transportation
Waste
Youth

Members

  • sidria hawkins
  • Katie Copeland
  • Ries
  • Jacqui Brough
  • Anjula
  • Ian Wood
  • Rebecca Coates
  • Jamie D
  • Michael Gazetas
  • Leanne Zmud
  • Lauren Dey
  • Surrinder K Bring
  • Rebecca Tobias
  • Helen Beer
  • Paris Marshall Smith
  • Julia Lesley Downs
  • Sue Lang
  • Peter endisch
  • Kyle
  • Grant Watson

Partners & Allies

Also check out our partners and allies in Transition, a network of powerful voices for change, renewal, and adaptation!

Partners
Garden Heart Productions
Langara College Community Development Program
Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver (NSV)
Neighbours Organic Weekly Food Cooperative (NOWBC)
The New City Institute
Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition (VACC)
Vancouver Peak Oil Group
Voters Taking Action on Climate Change

Allies
City Farmer
False Creek Watershed Society
The Georgia Straight
Green Earth Organics
Sustainable Living Arts School
The David Suzuki Foundation
Vancouver Observer
Vancouver Renewable Energy Coop (VREC)

Sightline Daily - NW

City of Salem pursues plan for bike and foot path

Oregon Field Guide: Wind and bats

Oregon Field Guide: murres & eagles

Oregon's Steens Mountain could soon have wind farms

Don't celebrate yet on Columbia River's salmon runs

Energy Bulletin - NorAm

Climate & environment - Feb 8

Responses & Resilience - Feb 8

Peak oil, prices, and supplies - Feb 8

United States - Feb 8

Deconstructing Dinner - Speerville Flour MIll

 

About VV

Village Vancouver (VV) is about taking action on sustainability, community resilience, social justice, and health. VV is Vancouver's Transition Town initiative, responding appropriately and smartly to Climate Change, Peak Oil, and economic instability. We are one among hundreds on the list of official Transition Towns worldwide, the fourth Transition city in BC, and one of 13 in Canada. Join us in whatever activity on this site excites you, or dream up your own and tell us about it. Our city has to play its part in the global Transition movement, and we hope to help Vancouver evolve from the ground up, through the lives, livelihoods, activities, and habits of each of our 600,000 person population.
Please send us your feedback as this site takes shape, suggestions, recommendations, and critiques. We want to hear from you!

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Food

Local, organic, rural, and/or urban, food production is a mainstay of life, and doing it well leads to wellness. From farm to kitchen, discussions relating to food--and the community arising around it--belong here.

5 discussions

Transportation

If you have to leave your village, how will you get where you want to go? By car? Preferably not, both for your wallet and the earth’s sake. This category is for all discussions relating to how we all get around.

3 discussions

Housing

A human right? After food, many feel shelter is our second most important need. Community lies in there somewhere. This category is for all things relating to home, shelter, housing, affordable housing, renewable heating systems, green buildings, heritage, and our built environment in general.

2 discussions

Energy

Renewable, carbon-based, local, regional, cross-border, steamed from tar, extracted from the wind, waves, or sun, energy is the stuff of modern human life. We can live without it, but few of us would. Rather, we waste it with abandon. Here is the place to discuss our relationship to the powerful force that is nature's fury. Wield it carefully, or not at all.

2 discussions

Economics

Politics is tactics, economics is strategy. If you want to change the world, change the economic relationship between people, their terms of trade, their relative economic value in the global "marketplace." If the heart of politics is local, the basis of economics is your wallet. Vote with it. That vote will count for more than every plebiscite you attend. Here is where we discuss the financial ties that bind us together, and rip us apart. Lets make it the former, and lets first put us on an equal footing.

2 discussions

Ecology

Perhaps not the only reason for Transition, but maybe the most important, our Environment is by far the most difficult to "fix" after it is damaged. It also has ways of taking our predations back out on us. Global warming is hurting, and killing, millions every year. Here is where we can discuss how to protect Gaia, or at least to hurt her less.

2 discussions

 
 

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