Cities and Towns In Transition
Thank you for participating!
Our speaker Michael Lewis, the Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Community Renewal, would like to share two documents with you. Right-click and save these two links to your computer:
Conference Hotlist for Cities & Towns in Transitioni4 - an ejournal about community resilience and transition in an age of climate change and peak oil
The University of Calgary's Faculties of Social Work and Environmental Design are pleased to invite you to two days of dialogue, skill building, and path-finding at the
Cities and Towns in Transition:
2010 People and Place Conference
Moving toward sustainable post-carbon resilient communities
Cities and towns around the world are charting a transition to more sustainable communities, economies and lifestyles and ultimately to create exciting new futures. They are addressing emerging and critical issues such as peak oil, climate change, social and economic injustice by integrating design, governance, economic development, energy use, spirituality, leadership, capacity building and community development, and our relationship to nature and each other.
To
explore the evolving relationships of people to the places they inhabit, this
is an event to bring together voices from around the Calgary Region to discuss
how we transform our cities and towns.
Friday June 4
A day of inspiring dialogue and challenging presentations:
- Robert Liberty – The Big Picture: the Landscape of Movements for Sustainable Low-Carbon Cities, and The Portland Experience: Sustainable Cities
- Jan Inglis – Transition Movement: local movement, global context
- Michael Lewis – Building a People Centred Economy
Click for the list of speaker biographies.
Saturday June 5
Morning
- Local and regional initiatives panel and reflection and action groups
Afternoon
- Transition in Calgary: a series of skills workshops, dialogues and field trips
Evening: Social Transformation - Time to Relax
- A social event to wrap up the conference hosted by local community groups
Location: University of Calgary & the Hillhurst-Sunnyside Community
Sponsored by: Faculties of Social Work, Faculty of Environmental Design and
the Institute for Sustainable, Energy, Environment and Economy
To download the poster for printing at your office or bulletin, right-click and save link to your computer.