Village Vancouver is metro Vancouver's official Transition Town Initiative. We connect people in community and build community self reliance in response to challenges posed by climate change, peak oil, economic insecurity and instability, and social injustice, in tangible, constructive and celebratory (fun!) ways. We run on people power. Members get involved on the basis of what interests them. (Currently, there are a few thousand of us.) Join us in creating sustainable and resilient neighbourho …

This meetup was created for people in the Tri-cities (Port Coquitlam, Coquitlam, and Port Moody) or even the Fraser Valley who want to meet like minded people in their community with interests in things like permaculture, natural building, sustainability, wild food foraging and gardening among similar topics. We can get together and watch great films, have discussions, potlucks, and share our knowledge and help each other create resilient and abundant landscapes and community locally. I believe …

You could struggle and worry about the mainstream economy, or enjoy more abundance and freedom now by learning to depend more on your neighbors and less on distant suppliers and central banking systems (in our case the Federal Reserve). The more you localize your sourcing and finances, the more you can enjoy abundance and freedom now. Everyone involved with the transition movement understands local sourcing, but that is only half the story. The other half is local currency. With both of these co …