CRC News Archive

The complete conversation of the first in the Meeting the Climate Change Challenge (MC³) is now available from the conversation's webpage.

Professor Ann Dale's Wiley Lecture is now available for download in PDF (with accompanying notes) and PPT (with transitions and hyperlinks) from our presentations archive.

A new video has been released on the CRC HEADTalks Channel featuring quotes and concepts used to stimulate conversation at our workshop held on March 30th, entitled De-growth: A Critical Juncture?. The workshop brought together academics and practitioners from a variety of different locations and disciplines to explore alternative models to the our current system of constant economic growth.

Tomorrrow, May 23th, at 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. EST, 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. PST, we will be holding the first of our Meeting the Climate Change Challenge (MC³) e-Dialogues, entitled Climate Change Responses and Sustainable Development Paths - Unmasking the Synergies. This conversation will bring together some of B.C.'s leading researchers to discuss their current project investigation climate change innovations in BC communities.

A new presentation has been posted and is available from our publications archives.  Presented at the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas (Montreal, May 13th to May 19th 2012), Degrowth: A Critical Juncture? summarizes the outcomes of our regional preparatory workshop on degrowth held at Royal Roads (March 30th, 2012).

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.

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.

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'.

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