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Communities in Transition (CIT) is a signature program of the Real Estate Foundation of BC created to help increase the ability of non-metropolitan communities to address the challenges they face when planning for use and conservation of lands. For information about CIT program goals and funding please go to
http://www.realestatefoundation.com/citsummary.html
Please note our
http://www.communitytransition.org/
website is under redevelopment. For the next several issues the Real Estate Institute of British Columbia has kindly offered this page on their website allowing us to continue to distribute the CIT Information Resource to our readers.
CIT Information Resource
Editor's Note
September 16, 2009
It's appropriate that food should be at the top of our posts this "harvest" issue. There's a growing "foodie" culture, at least a part of which is focused on "local" and "organic." We are beginning to realize that Big Food, like so many big things, isn't always looking out for the best interests of communities...click to read more
Columns/CIT Themes
What's Driving Settlement Change in the Mid-Vancouver Island Region?
by Tim Pringle
A strong argument can be made that the east coast of the mid-Vancouver Island region is one market for real estate development. According to research being done by the Real Estate Foundation, many factors indicate that this is indeed the case. In this context, all communities - from Cobble Hill to Campbell River - will continue to see a number of real estate development proposals at their front counters...click to read more
BC Land Summit: Solving for Similarities - New Ways of Imagining Communities: in Conversation with Angus McAllister
by hans peter meyer
Angus McAllister is the principal at McAllister Opinion Research. He was a presenter, with Michael Gordon (City of Vancouver) and Mark Holland (HB Lanarc Consultants), at the BC Land Summit in Whistler, May 2009. The title of their presentation Urban Subcultures & Precincts: A New Theory of Vitality and Authenticity, formed the basis for our conversation later in June...click to read more
Thoughts on Regional Food Security & Self-Reliance
by George Penfold
A recently published report on BC's food self-reliance shows that in spite of our large productive agricultual areas in the Lower Mainland and the Okanagan, BC is only 48% self-reliant in food. Our only food surplus in BC is in fruit. On the other hand, Canada continues to be a net exporter of agricultural and related food products to the tune of $6 Billion in 2007...click to read more
Gaining Ground: in Conversation with Gene Miller
by hans peter meyer
The Gaining Ground Summit series lands in Vancouver this October 20-22, 2009. I interviewed one of the visionaries behind this exciting and inspiring confab this summer. An audio version of this interview is published in two parts...click to read more
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