February 2012

This video features a recrafting of the first video created in CRC Research's social media research project.  We began our social media experiment with an animated video designed to highlight the differences between humans living with nature and humans living against nature. Using stop-motion animation and tongue-in-cheek humour, the animation unfolded the natural succession of an ecosystem and abruptly interrupted this process with rapid industrialization.

Taylor Davis, a collaborator in CRC case study research and HEAD Talks sketch and clay animations, and Chris Jensen of Terra Remote Sensing have recently released

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.

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?

Partnering with Chambers of Commerce and Boards of Trade across Metro Vancouver, the Future of the Region Sustainability Dialogues is an outreach component of the Sustainable Region Initiative (SRI) aimed at stimulating thoughts and conversation on how to transition to a zero waste economy. The dialogues will consist of panelists of experts on environmental, social, and economic sustainability issues, and the outcomes of the discussions aim to inform community agents and descision-makers on how to transition to a less consumption-based economic system.

Scale of the Universe is a interactive animation, developed by Cary and Mike Huang, that allows you to view the boundaries of size from a resolution high enough for displaying quantum foam to the macroscopic view of what scientists hypothesize to be the boundaries of the entire universe. This interactive piece displays sizes and scales purely from an objective quantitative angle and is not presented with commentary.