Fay Weller will share about Gabriola Climate-12 Action. It is the second phase of the Gabriola Climate 12-12-12 project, which ran September 2022 to August 2023. It brought locals together for 12 months, to look at 12 wicked problems related to climate change, and generate 12 (and more) solutions to reduce Gabriola’s climate emissions and mitigate coming climate impacts.
This workshop will explore the principals, practices and lessons learned form a highly successful community-based watershed management project based in the Slocan Valley near Nelson, British Columbia. After 30 years of failed attempts by government agencies Stephen Martineau and his team of facilitators worked in unique and sometimes counterintuitive ways, referred to as Integral Mediation and Ecology, to pull together a diverse set of often polarized stakeholders to devise a plan that was acceptable to all. Join us to learn what the principals and practices are of this approach and to reflect on its applicability to your region.
Let’s mingle and connect over lunch. This is a great space to share community announcements.
This workshop will explore the principals, practices and lessons learned form a highly successful community-based watershed management project based in the Slocan Valley near Nelson, British Columbia. After 30 years of failed attempts by government agencies Stephen Martineau and his team of facilitators worked in unique and sometimes counterintuitive ways, referred to as Integral Mediation and Ecology, to pull together a diverse set of often polarized stakeholders to devise a plan that was acceptable to all. Join us to learn what the principals and practices are of this approach and to reflect on its applicability to your region.
Join David MacLeod: A David Holmgren essay that I have been authorized to summarize in a powerpoint presentation. The sustainability debate has shown a deep confusion about the processes and systems which support life and humanity. The lack of conceptual tools to incorporate previously ignored environmental “givens” into calculations used by economists and decision makers is painfully obvious. There are no simple answers to the complex question of costs, benefits, and sustainability. However, there is a natural currency we can use to measure our interdependence on our environment and assist us to make sensible decisions about current and future action. That currency is energy. This presentation summarizes the important contribution of pioneering systems ecologist Howard T. Odum on the development of permaculture principles and the role of energy that should be considered in all processes.
