Kimberley Leading

Creating a Liveable Future

Years ago, theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman told us that one of the most important things he'd learned from a lifetime of study:

All you can do is do your best. You can never know the outcome.

This lesson starts with agency applied in a non-algorithmic universe. And what, exactly, does this have to do with Kimberley?

A good portion of our recent conversation with Mayor Don McCormick on the "State of the City" centered on how the city is adapting to a rapidly changing environment or, more broadly, the complex ecology of which we're a part. In addition to the steps that Kimberley is taking for the benefit of the community, the city has become a leader and an example for British Columbia and for Canada.

It would be easy to say that this journey of adaptation began with an overwhelming vote by the people of Kimberley to build the SunMine in November, 2011. Almost 2 yeasr earlier, in January, 2011, Kimberley was the host for Building Sustainability: a Green Homes and Renovations Conference. Together, these two projects demonstrated a serious and, even now, unusual commitment by a community to reducing its energy footprint.

[It's also important to add that making energy-saving decisions on a day-to-day basis is how we transition to a sustainable and, ultimately, restorative life-style. For most of the last decade, Kimberley's building inspector, Andy Christie, has been consistently pushing more energy efficient construction methods for new construction, retrofits and renovations. The results are good and getting better.]

Other Matters

an International School for Kimberley?

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Corporatized Cannabis

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Qat'Muk v Jumbo
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Shift Happened
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Appropriate

Housing
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Other Sources:

Canadian Internet Service is Overpriced & Underprovisioned

Some Good News

an Antidote to Political Cynicism

Material Survival

Whose Future?

This is Going to Be Ugly

Profit or Promise?

When in Doubt, Blame the Messenger

Mount Polley Wasn't an Accident

This is the "Clean" Stuff

Past Time to Get Started

Pipelines & Other Problems

Excerpts from our conversation with Mayor McCormick

other resources:

In the course of our conversation with the Mayor, we mentioned Ray Anderson who wrote Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose - Doing Business by Respecting the Earth ... a book which is even more relevant today than when it was initially published (2009). It was Anderson who introduced us to the iimperative of moving beyond sustainable to restorative. This is the piece we published to the HuffingtonPost when Mr. Anderson died in 2011.

Paul Hawken's Natural Capital was a major influence on Ray Anderson.

Architect Tang Lee was on of the principal participants in the 2011 Building Sustainability Conference. Ray Anderson, Paul Hawken and environmental educator David Orr recorded their views on sustainability. Our hope is that these conferences will soon be revitalized.

This is what we wrote about the SunMine before it went operational in 2015. And this celebrated the official opening.

Tang Lee

Ray Anderson

Paul Hawken

David Orr

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