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Tools & Resources
We have compiled tools, resources and web links that we hope will be helpful in developing plans for a sustainable Gabriola.
Links
The following are some links to what other communities are doing. If you know of other inspirational sites, please pass them on so we can post them.
Click on the topic to follow the link:
- BALLE -- The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies -- "The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) is North America's fastest growing network of socially responsible businesses, comprised of over 80 community networks with over 21,000 independent business members across the U.S. and Canada."
- Canadian Institute of Planners -- "Representing a membership of approximately 7000 planning professionals across Canada, the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) has been dedicated to the advancement of responsible planning since 1919."
- Center for Sustainability -- "We are a strategic grant-maker and capacity builder engaged in strengthening BC’s not-for-profit organizations at their operating core."
- The Climate Challenge, 101 Solutions to Global Warming -- By Guy Dauncey. It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the urgency of global climate change. But when author Guy Dauncey assembles the world's best solutions in one place, as he does in The Climate Challenge, a vision emerges of a sustainable energy revolution. He opens the door to a century of exciting change, characterized by renewable energy, sustainable farming, carbon-rich forestry, green cities, electric vehicles, high-speed trains, a blossoming of innovation, and a host of new "green collar" jobs.
- Climate Change and Air Quality -- "The GHG emission document, Gabriola Greenhouse Gas Emissions - 2008, has now reached the stage where it is ready for community review and comments. We have posted it on our brand new website."
- Cobb Hill Co-housing -- "Cobb Hill is a community of people who want to explore the challenge of living in ways that are materially sufficient, socially and ecologically responsible, and satisfying to the soul."
- Earth Future -- "What does it mean to create a sustainable house, a sustainable community, a sustainable city?"
- Emergency planning Follow the links below for Emergency Planning information:
- Gabriola Emergency Social Services (GESS): A link to the GESS web site for a detailed discussion of Emergancy Preparedness on Gabriola.
- Rural District of Nanaimo emergency planning:
- Neighborhood Emergency Prep.
- Hazard Vulnerability Risk Analyses.
- Gabriola Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
- NEP general one page flyer.
- All Hazards preparedness publication.
- A sample three day emergency food supply menu.
- Detailed discussion of bottled water.
- Emergency supplies checklist.
- Detailed of the emergency food pyramid.
- Food Security-- best links The following two websites include their own links pages and may be all we really need to get people started.
- Farm folk / city folk
- BC Food Systems Network
- Food Security (Local)
- Food security B.C. and Canada
- bits & bytes
- Community Supported Agriculture - In the Kootenays,where you buy a share for $125 and get something like 5lbs of 5 different grains
- Cowichan Green Community
- Eat Local Challenge -- "EatLocalChallenge.com is a group blog written by authors who are interested in the benefits of eating food grown and produced in their local foodshed."
- Lets Get Local, Metro Vancouver
- Life Cycles -- Cultivating communities
- Lush Valley Food Action Society - in Comox, and evolving very nicely it seems
- Salt Spring Seeds
- Seeds of Diversity
- Vancouver Farmers Markets
- Vancouver Island Diet
- Agricultural resources
- World resources
- Eco-Village Network UK -- "Publications and organisations with the information you need."
- Emerald Earth Sanctuary -- "Emerald Earth is an intentional community in Mendocino County, California. We are located on 189 beautiful acres of mixed forest and meadows, which is owned by our non-profit corporation Emerald Earth Sanctuary. We make decisions by consensus, and value direct, open communication and conflict resolution. We invite you to participate in our work parties, natural building workshops, or work trade program."
- Gabriola Commons Foundation -- "Welcome to Gabriola Commons, a place for the harmonious integration of community services, cultural activities, and environmentally sustainable living on Gabriola Island, B.C"
- Gabriola Ferry Advisory Committee -- "The objective is to share information between BC Ferries' management and representatives of local communities on the day-to-day operations of specific routes, planned improvements to terminals, and broader policy issues, such as the tariff, and the corporate strategic plan."
- Gabriola Green Bikes -- "The idea is to put a free bicycle under the butt of every Gabriolan or visitor who wants to use one for an hour, an afternoon, or a weekend."
- Gabriola Health Care Society -- "The Gabriola Health Care Society (the "GHCS") is a volunteer, community initiative to improve our health care"
- Gabriola Island Recycling Organization --
- Gabriola Lands and Trails Trust -- "A not-for profit charitable society created in 2004 by a group of proactive Gabriola Island residents desiring to secure more park land, protect important ecological features, and develop additional trails on publicly owned land."
- Gabriola Transportation Association -- "Considerable interest has been expressed by many Gabriolans for a bus service as well as a ride share program. GTA plans to establish committees to deal with these initiatives."
- Gabriola Greenhouse Gas Emissions - 2008 -- "The GHG emission document has now reached the stage where it is ready for community review and comments. We have posted it on our brand new website."
- Global Charter -- Defining what it means to be Green in the new millennium"
- Groundwire -- "Our Mission: Groundwire delivers technology to engage people, organizations and communities in building a sustainable society."
- Intentional communities -- "Intentional Community is an inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives, alternative communities, and other projects where people strive together with a common vision. This web site serves the growing communities' movement, providing resources for finding a community home and creating more community in your life."
- Intentional community links
- Island Futures Society
- Kakwa Eco village -- A place in time and a melange of current world influences dedicated to building a sustainable culture: Findhorn, Crystal Waters, The Centre for Alternative Technology, certified organic farming, consensus decision making, right livelihood, renewable energy, world music, sacred dance, a spiritual path, alternative medicine and education.
- Linnaea Farm -- Linnaea Farm is a beautiful land trust on Cortes Island, B.C. Situated on the edge of Gunflint Lake, it comprises 315 acres of rich forests, fields, gardens, and orchards.
- New Society Publishers -- Click here to visit New Society Publishers, the activist publisher focused on solutions and social change. Our Books are tools to Build a New Society. They help you to know the talk, and walk the talk. They're packed with analysis that's hard to find, ideas to keep you current, inspiration for the daily struggle, and practical tools to change the world.
- Other:
- Sustainable Connections: A "buy local" group in NW Washington. Areas of focus include: Green building, Energy, Food & Farming and Local Business Development.
- Pachamama Alliance -- Joanna Macy provided an inspirational evening talk, The Hidden Promise of Our Dark Age, October 9, 2009, at the Haven on Gabriola Island. It is excellent. Well worth listening to right to the end.
- Permaculture Activist -- "Our purpose is to provide information to liberate people everywhere to provide for their own & their communities' needs for food, energy, shelter, & a decent life without exploitation or pollution & from the smallest practical area of land."
- People for a Healthy Community -- "PHC works to support the health and well being of our community: children, families and individuals. We actively pursue the vision of a community where basic needs of safety, health, shelter, food security and connection are the concerns of all."
- Planet Friendly -- A Sustainable Living Guide
- Rural District of Nanaimo Regional Growth Strategy
- Rural District of Nanaimo green building research project
- Rural District of Nanaimo green building research project summary report
- Saltspring Island Community Needs Assessement
- Samso Island -- Samso Island Is The Face of Danish Green Revolution. Click to visit.
- Seatle tilth -- "Seattle Tilth is a nationally recognized non-profit educational organization dedicated to inspiring and educating people to garden organically and conserve natural resources."
- Supply Line Organic Foods -- "SLO-Foods was launched early spring of 2007 as an effort to bring together a large enough group of eaters who recognize that, collectively supporting local agriculture, is a form of enlightened self interest."
- Steward Community Woodland -- "A sustainable working woodland and conservation project in Dartmoor."
- Times Colonist article -- "A new kind of Seven Wonders that we can create. "
- The Village - Building Sustainable Communities -- "Ecovillages are urban or rural communities of people who strive to integrate a supportive social environment with a low impact way of life. To achieve this, they integrate various aspects of ecological design, permaculture, ecological building, green production, alternative energy, community building practices, and much more."
- Yarrow Eco Village -- "Yarrow EcoVillage is located 90 kilometres east of Vancouver and 18 km west of downtown Chilliwack, in Yarrow, British Columbia, Canada. The site has buildings dating from the 1930's. These can be retrofitted and infilled with new green buildings to provide residences, commercial space, a learning centre, and cottage industries. The goal is to create a healthy diverse and sustainable community."
- Video links:
- Child poverty in BC: Video -- A group of BC musicians, performers and filmmakers of all ages who are deeply troubled that almost 1 in 5 children in British Columbia continue to live in poverty—in one of the world’s richest regions. Our province has a global reputation for social harmony, and our government boasts that BC is “the best place on earth to live”. Yet with the2010 Winter Olympics at our doorstep, most British Columbians don’t know that BC has the highest child poverty rate in Canada.
- Up your watershead: Video -- Hello all Watershed afficionados. We are the Artist Response Team, out of Crofton on Vancouver Island. For a good time, see our new video, Up Your Watershed!, shot live at the Bell Performing Arts Centre in Surrey on December 3, 2009. Please spread it far and wide...let's get out there and save some salmon.