These websites relate to community building through the lens of resilience. A resilient community is one that is able to respond and adapt to internal and external threats while still maintaining its basic function and structure, and is, more generally, an approach of community proactivity as opposed to reactivity.
Active in Action -- new principles for a sustainable world -- SFU lecture by Dan Burden
A path toward sustaining a cultivated planet
Canadian Centre for Community Renewal’s Community Resilience Manual
City of Vancouver -- Talk Green To Us
CLBC's Go Green page (contains many useful links)
Common Ground article:
From scarcity to abundance
Common Ground article:
The Gift – the nature of real abundance
Community of Interest (Vancouver Sun)
Community Research Connections
Dwell article -- Emerald in the Rough (architect builds biodegradable house)
Eco homes: living the good life (short video)
Guardian UK article: The population explosion
Guardian UK article: I share their despair, but...
Guardian UK article: After this 60-year feeding frenzy...
ISIS at UBC's Sauder School for Business -- an incubator for social innovation and sustainability
Lammas: the eco village that lives off the grid (10-minute video)
Lighthouse Sustainable Building Centre
One Sky Canadian Institute of Sustainable Living
Preparing for a Post Peak Life
Prince of Wales speech - Nov. 09
Renaissance 2 Social Innovation Catalyst
Resilient Communities Canada
Seeds of Sustainability: BC Lower Mainland Projects
Social innovation and sustainability -- Frances Westley
Society Promoting Environmental Conservation
Sustainable Community Breakfast (metrovancouver)
Sustainable Development Commission (UK)
Telegraph UK article -- Monty Don on Mastercrafts
The American Dream, by The Provocateur Network
Tyee article – Biophysical Economics
Tyee article – Generation Velcro
Vancouver Magazine article – Rees’s Thesis
Vancouver Magazine article – The Year of Living Frugally
Vancouver Sun article - Yarrow Eco-village
