CRC News Archive

New CRC Video: Leanne Cadden on Creativity and Sustainability

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We have just released Creativity, a video featuring an interview with Leanne Cadden, a noted Vancouver Island artist, blended with images and animations of her artwork. Leanne discusses the role creativity has in sustainable community development and in adopting sustainable lifestyles.

Charter of Rights and Responsibilities for the Environment

Professor Ann Dale created the Charter of Environmental Rights and Responsibilities in 1992 as an inital task when building and developing the Sustainable Development Research Institute (SDRI) at UBC with research colleague, Dr. John Robinson.

New CRC Video: Environmental Education in Our Backyard

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Community Research Connections partnered with Royal Roads University's Masters of Intercultural and International Communications program to create this mini-documentary on environmental education. The video begins with the aims environmental and then notes that this form of education can happen within our communities, wherever there is green space or wherever we can connect with an aspect of nature. Human communities do not have to be completely inseparable from nature and we can learn about our place in the larger ecosystem by looking at our own 'backyard'.

Regional De-growth Preparatory Workshop

On March 30th, 2012, a regional workshop exploring the de-growth movement and alternatives to constant economic growth will be held Royal Roads University.

The Vitality Project is live!

What makes a community thrive? Is there optimal scale for the neighbourhood, city, and region? What are the new models of governance do we require for managing multiple, competing uses of land, our natural resources, and for maintaining our own vitality? What makes a community not just get by, but GET AHEAD?

Our new website

The CRC website has a upgraded to a more navigable design to allow users to easily access all the research, news, and projects on sustainable community development. See our new features, especially 'Community News', which highlights sustainable community development projects by partner organizations, colleagues and other groups working on similar issues. We hope you enjoy our new design and we encourage you to explore our work and welcome any comments you have.

New article posted: Insights on social sustainability in Dockside Green

Recently submitted to CRC Research, Dockside Green: Insight on the social aspects of the LEED- ‐ND standard community development examines the social aspects of the LEED-ND development in Victoria, BC: Dockside Green. Dockside Green employs innovative, state-of-the-art green development practices to achieve sustainability, and the community is regarded as Victoria's first environmentally sustainable community.

New CRC YouTube Video

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A Vision of Sustainable Community Development captures the ideas and outcomes of the Community Research Connections program and approaches the social sciences of sustainable community development from both an informed and compassionate place. The video explores the dynamic relationship between place, limits, scale and diversity for Canadian communities and discusses the importance of reconciling the built and non-built environment.

MC3 Case Summaries

Summaries for the case studies of the Meeting Climate Change Challenge (MC3) project are now available. MC3 aims to identify emerging best practices and innovations in community climate change responses, and this is done in part by examining climate change plans of eleven communities within BC. Communities are selected using criteria that ensures best practices from a diverse set of communities are captured within the research.