Transition Victoria - Working Groups 201

Join us for another fun and participatory Open Space workshop to support next steps for Transition working groups!

If you're interested in community resilience, reskilling, food, energy, transportation, Heart&Soul, or any other aspect of the Transition to a resilient, low-energy world, and would like to get involved in concrete, local action, this event is for you. Everyone welcome!

WHEN: Saturday, February 27, 1-4 pm (registration 12:45 pm)

WHERE: Fernwood Community Centre, 1240 Gladstone

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Last Chance to Protect the WFP Lands from Sooke to Jordan River

Wednesday, March 3
7pm – 9pm
SJ Willis Auditorium
923 Topaz Avenue (between Blanshard and Quadra)

Come out and help protect these lands.
 
On March 8 Western Forest Products is putting 5200 acres of private lands up for sale from Sooke to Jordan River – our Wild Coast. Let’s help protect waterfront lands at Sandcut Beach all the way to the surfing beaches at Jordan River, the Sooke Potholes lands and other extensive forest lands and watersheds in the area. First Nations sacred sites are at risk from development.
 
The provincial government now has an opportunity to support UBC’s proposal to purchase these lands as an educational and research forest.  The CRD must be supported in their efforts to protect these lands.

Come have a say in the future of our coast.

Speakers include:
Chief Gordon Planes – T’Sou-ke First Nation
Arnie Campbell – Otter Point and Shirley Residents and Ratepayers Association
Terri Alcock - Shirley Education and Action Society
Calvin Sandborn - Legal Director, UVic Environmental Clinic
Vicky Husband - Spokesperson, Jordan River Steering Committee

For more information on the event contact:
Vicky Husband, Jordan River Steering Committee
250-478-0388
vickyhusband@gmail.com

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Past events: Countdown to Copenhagen

Over a thousand people raised the roof at the Countdown to Copenhagen event on November 17 with singing, cheering - and, yes, booing the climate obstructionists. Especially powerful were the voices of BC's youth delegation to Copenhagen, led by Sierra Club BC's very own Jamie Biggar (chair of the Board) and Tria Donaldston (Board member). Youth are the ones who will inherit the mess caused by the oil-and-coal generations and that night they showed powerful and articulate leadership.

FutureFest

Victoria residents gathered at the Centennial Square as part of the Global Day of Climate Action on October 24.

The event was called FutureFest and featured a kids' corner with crafts, an art-based community visioning space, main stage music, a flash dance mob, local non-profit and community business tables, organic produce and coffee, topped off with a 350 bike ride downtown. The event was organized by a wide coalition of NGO's and community groups, including Sierra Club BC and Sierra Victoria.

Rooftop photographs of the event were sent to organizers at 350.org, the organization coordinating the global call for action. 350 of these photos were displayed on the massive screens in the heart of New York City, with global media standing by to broadcast the story worldwide. On Sunday, the story made the New York times and major news media around the world.

The photo displays were a huge visual petition that will be sent to world leaders.  On Monday, October 26, the 350.org crew visited UN headquarters to hand-deliver the photos to diplomats and delegates the world over.

Moving from Oil Dependence to

Local Resilience

August 5th, 2009, at 6:30 pm
Central Library Meeting Room
735 Broughton Street, Victoria
Free Admission
Co-hosted by Victoria Region Transition Initiative and Sierra Club BC's Victoria local group

Please join Sierra Victoria for an evening of engaged optimism – a creative and proactive exploration of what we can do together as a community to address the looming challenges of climate crisis, peak oil and economic instability.

The evening with open with a short presentation which will delve briefly into what the end of the fossil fuel era will mean for our lives, then investigate some of the options for creative scenarios for an “energy descent” beyond the age of cheap oil. After the presentation, the audience will be invited to participate in a visioning process to explore what a post-carbon city of Victoria would look like, and share these visions with each other to begin the process of making them real.

About the presenter: Tamara Schwartzentruber is a founding member of the Victoria Region Transition Initiative and a lifelong bicycle commuter who's joyfully back on two wheels after a life-threatening encounter with a drunk driver last year. She is a certified permaculture designer and teacher as well as a singer, dancer, poet and  Gardener.