This is an invitation for our Pender community (and all communities) to come together and help create a future… where we are more resilient and self-sufficient; more connected with each other, the land, and the rest of nature; living lower-carbon, lighter on the Earth, healthier, and with greater happiness and spirit!
Pender Community Transition (PCT) is a cooperative alliance, helping the North and South Pender Islands (in British Columbia, Canada) to reduce oil dependency, carbon emissions, and other damage to our Earth, and to transition with resilience and self-sufficiency through peak oil, climate change, and other global financial and resource challenges.
Want to get active? Here are PCT’s 7 projects for our second year beginning in the fall of 2011 – on the key issues of energy, food growing, and economic relocalization. Email us to get involved, make a donation in support, or most of all come connect at our next meeting.
Let’s plan to cooperate! Drawing from the exciting Transition model, PCT also invites our entire community (individuals, families, groups, businesses, and local government reps) to be part of transition planning for Pender. This is about choosing how our community responds to worldwide impacts, by becoming more connected, resilient, and Earth-friendly, and by weaving together valuable existing initiatives with new cooperative action. To learn more, click on any of the 8 key issues for community transition (below, left), or try the links to particular projects or groups (below, right). Let’s co-create a brighter future!
| 1. Energy, Emissions, & Waste |
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| 2. Food Growing & Community Farmland |
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| 3. Economic Relocalization & Justice |
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| 4. Community Spirit, Art, & Wellbeing |
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| 5. Conserving Biodiversity |
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| 6. Water Supply & Weather |
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| 7. Alternative Transportation |
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| 8. Eco-Friendly & Affordable Housing |
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Our future is brighter when we come together with our biggest selves… building trust and cooperation, doing our part for the world, and choosing to help make our communities more resilient and self-sufficient. Check out the key issues and great initiatives above, plus events, volunteering, and posts, for more about where you could belong on this journey.
Pender Community Transition (PCT) is an ever-growing, incorporated non-profit Society in British Columbia, Canada. PCT currently has 5 Directors and 150 supporters, involving 20 diverse Pender community groups (more welcome!). Many thanks to these folk, and to our funders – the North Pender and South Pender Local Trust Committees, Capital Regional District, Vancity, GreenAngels Financial, Eco Homes Network, and the core supporters who started this cooperative alliance for a brighter future!
PCT website: This website was set up by Pender Community Transition, with great technical help from Susan Thomas and other much-appreciated volunteers, and super Pender photos by Luke Ramsey. Now we invite all interested Pender people, families, kids, and groups to co-create and evolve what’s here, with your posts & comments , current PENDER BUSINESSES OFFERINGS, listings on our PENDER VHS (Voluntary Helping System), useful references, tips & skills, and/or your poems, music, images, video… whatever connects and inspires our whole community! Please email info@pendercommunitytransition.ca to find out more.
