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Take the Vital Signs Survey – Make Your Voice Heard!
How does Powell River measure up? We need your opinion! Take Powell River’s Vital Signs Community Survey and make your views and ideas known. Powell River’s “Vital Signs®” reports on the vitality of our community by measuring the quality of life and identifying trends in 12 key areas from many official and trusted data sources. [...]
July 23, 2011
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Tags: community, report, survey, vital signs · Posted in: General chat
Robert Bateman on the potential for oil spill disaster on the BC Coast
Great video from Robert Bateman on the possible results of an oil spill here on the BC coast…
March 25, 2011
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Tags: bc coast, oil drilling, oil spill, oil tankers, robert bateman · Posted in: General chat
About Us and How to Get Involved
Transition Town Powell River is an official Transition Initiative affiliated with the international Transition Network. We are located in Powell River, BC, Canada, on the beautiful upper Sunshine Coast (where a lot of the sunshine is liquid, but hey – the gardens love it!), part of the Canadian west coast. As a Transition Initiative we [...]
February 22, 2011
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Tags: green building, initiating group, solutions, transportation, working groups · Posted in: General chat
10/10/10 work party: meatless potluck!
Oct 10, 2010 is a global day of action where people are doing projects to make a real difference in their community’s CO2 emissions. You can find out more about what’s happening all over the world at http://www.350.org/. The idea is to show our “leaders” that we’re prepared to take action and get to work [...]
October 4, 2010
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Tags: 10/10/10, 350, co2 emissions, meatless, potluck, vegetarian · Posted in: General chat
Bike to Work Week comes to Powell River
For the first time, Powell River is an official Bike to Work Week community! Transition Town Powell River is helping the Powell River Cycling Association get the show on the road. For more information, check out the Powell River section at the Bike to Work Week site: Bike to Work Week Powell River
May 22, 2010
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Tags: bike, bike to work week, biking, cycling, powell river · Posted in: General chat
350.org Action Slideshow
Inspiring slideshow from 350.org including the 10/10/10 Work Party. Of course, we’re not waiting till then to take action, but we’ll be doing something on that day for sure. 350.org PowerPoint Slideshow View more presentations or Upload your own.
March 21, 2010
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Training for Transition comes to Powell River
Please join us for a workshop on Training for Transition hosted by Transition Town Powell River exploring lessons and approaches to strengthen community resilience Friday 9th April 6:30 pm – 9 pm Saturday 10th April 8:30 am – 4:30 pm Unitarian Hall, 6828 Cranberry St, Powell River Training for Transition Workshop This two day workshop [...]
March 19, 2010
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Invitation to Rebuilding Regional Resilience: a Roundtable
Transition Town Powell River and Vancouver Island University… …invite everyone working in areas related to sustainability, climate change response, reducing carbon emissions, resource conservation, resilience-building, rebuilding skills for self-reliance, economic re-localisation, etc. and covering topics like food, transportation, housing, energy and more… …to join us at VIU on Thursday, Feb 25th at 6:30 pm for: [...]
February 15, 2010
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TTPR on Beyond Survival podcast
Kevin was interviewed about Transition by Martin Rossander and Dolores de la Torre on “Beyond Survival” recently. Here’s the link where you can listen to the recording: Transition on Beyond Survival
January 14, 2010
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January Transition Events
January’s “Home Movie” will be at Graham’s house Thursday January 21 at 7:00 pm. RSVP Graham at 604-485-5409 as space is limited. We will be showing the brand new movie “Transition 1.0.” Sunday January 31st 2-5pm at the Unitarian Hall 6826 Cranberry St. TTPR presents “Save Energy at Home” a hands on workshop. Discover energy [...]
January 12, 2010
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