Community News Archive

Community Information Database (CID)

A new resource has been added to our Community Vitality Project: The Community Information Database (CID). CID is an interactive website that provides socio-economic and demographic data on communities across Canada.

The Power of Co-operatives

The Globe and Mail has recently released an article, entitled The Power of Co-operatives: Ethical values underpin global movement, on the role of co-operative models in transitioning to a more sustainable economic system.

Kickstarter, a funding platform for creative projects

Kickstarter is an online forum for those interested in sharing their artistic or technological projects. This online platform allows artists and inventors to exhibit their work and gather financial support for their projects through the global network. Through the Kickstarter system, potential funders and supporters of projects have the opportunity to review project plans and completion timelines, which allows people to be virtually involved in project geneses.

Ezio Manzini - Social Innovation for Sustainability

On April 5, 2012 Royal Roads University hosted visiting scholar and Leading Sustainable Design Thinker, Ezio Manzini, as part of a Robert Bateman Critical Conversation on how Art and Design are helping people around the world respond to the complex challenges of our times. Organized by Dr.

Surviving Progress - a special screening with Ronald Wright

On Wednesday April 25th at the Victoria Event Centre, Open Cinema in partnership with Sierra Club BC is putting on a special screening of the beautiful and hard-hitting Canadian docu-essay, Surviving Progress.

Popularizing Research

Edited by Dr. Phillip Vannini of Royal Roads University, Popularizing Research describes methods of communicating research ideas by utilizing more that the traditional publications approach.

Drake Landing, Canada's first solar-powered community

A case study on Canada's first solar-powered community, Drake Landing, has recently been released through the Partner for Climate Protection program, a climate change initiative created through partnership between the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and the

Women Suffrage and Beyond

In honour of International Women's Day, Women Suffrage and Beyond, a new website on social justice and gendre equality, has been launched by a research team based out of the University of British Columbia.  Women Suffrage and Beyond aims to educate and engage the public in making the connections between the vote, democracy, and social justice.

Canadian Green Health Care Digest

The Canadian Green Health Care Digest provides the lastest in news and initiatives in green health care, and will inform you on the latest developments in the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care's projects and activities. You can subscribe to this publication free of charge by contacting Jin Park at Jin@greenhealthcare.ca.  To browse through previous issues of this publication, you can visit Canadian Green Health Care Digest archives.

Giving farmers the tools to fight famine

Giving farmers the tools to fight famine is an article recently published in Embassy Magazine that discusses how climate change adaptation strategies can combat socio-economic issues such as poverty and famine.  A rapidly shifting climate has altered many local environments making them inhospitable for traditional agriculture practices, and attempting to grow foods in the same fashion done by previous