Twitter FavesOn Friday, we had our open house to get feedback on the Sackville Commons. There was a good level of interest and some suggestions. I’m positive that we can build interest and get the project going this Winter. With 40 members we should be able to have one floor (second floor) dedicated to the Commons. [...]
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I worked on the notion of a work/environmental commons for our community for about two years, but after raising about $200,000 to construct a new building, matching funds from the provincial and federal governments (originally promised) never materialized. I ran out of steam and parked the idea. This was my rationale for a work commons [...]
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We’re having our first Sackville Local Food Day on Saturday August 15th from 9:00 am to 1.30 pm at the Farmers Market on Bridge Street. taste the produce of our local region meet some local farmers buy from local artisans listen to local music win great door prizes If you’re a new vendor or want [...]
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The first comment on the cover says: “This one is a keeper. Buy three. One for you, one for someone you care about, and one for a friend who really and truly needs it.” Seth Godin I was given a copy of Dave Pollard’s Finding the Sweet Spot by a friend and read it on [...]
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I spent the weekend helping out with a few community events. We had our Fall Fair, with some great entertainers and also had a farm field day that saw over 5,000 visitors, followed by an environmental trade show on the street – Green4Generations. The latter included a free showing of Who Killed the Electric Car, [...]
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If you want to address climate change, then the best thing you can do is get politically active, according to Lester Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute, speaking here in Sackville on Saturday evening. Some highlights of his presentation: How many failing states do we need before we have a failing civilization? It is [...]
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A theme on this blog is that of a Commons, or third-space that connects people in their work and living. The Queen Street Commons on PEI was one of the first in Atlantic Canada and a slightly different model is offered by Queen Street Studios in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia: Fondly known as QSS, its genesis [...]
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Over the holidays I read Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming by Paul Hawken. This is a book that is more a reference than a story and what will serve me well after reading the book is the extensive appendix, which is [...]
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This week I’ve noticed that everything seems to come back to our artificially created systems. If I’m waiting for a decision it’s because of poor information flow at some bottleneck in a hierarchy. If I’m not able to take action on an idea that would help many people it’s due to some artificial construct called [...]
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According to this article on The World Cafe, we humans may be more inclined to collaborate rather than compete: Swedish scientists have done extensive research on this and they found we first lived in small groups of 20 to 100 people who in any given week averaged 2.5 days for gathering and hunting and 4.5 [...]
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