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Kits Two Eco-Team

Our Ecoteam celebrated the completion of our first project together in March! We organized a Global Warming Café (GWC) in Dunbar (March 8th). We met every two weeks in Jan.and Feb. and had fun working together and getting to know each other. Although we had a sense of how a Café is run because we all attended at least one previously, support from Fred, Brad and Kathryn and others who organized Cafés in the past was invaluable! We decided to focus our Café on food issues and invited guest speakers: Jill Weiss, Grant Watson and Philip Be’er, who inspired us to think more about growing our own food, buying locally and shifting ideas into action.

Our next project(s) will centre around community building and inspiring environmental action. Recently a few of us attended a workshop on Kitsilano's first Car Free Block Party Festival. With help from our Ecoteam, two members are planning neighbourhood block parties on Car Free day June 15th! We are excited about transforming the atmosphere on our streets from 10am to 9pm in creative ways (bringing furniture, carpets and potted plants outside! Live music!). We received a 'Kitsilano Block Party Festival Planning and Ideas Toolkit’ that suggests how to best plan for this day. Some idea we are considering: yoga sessions, outdoor movies, potlucks with local foods, games and activities for children and adults, BC wine tasting, bicycle maintenance workshop, discussion groups, guest speakers, talent show, etc! We look forward to sharing our experiences and would love for you to join us!

Ross and others are launching Ecovillage Vancouver. EV is intended to be a shared resource that we can all use to bring people and groups together around community and sustainability. At Jericho Beach Earth Day on April 26th, we talked to approximately 150 people about starting neighbourhood ecovillages, and about Global Warming Cafe's (lots of interest!) and other grassroots people connecting efforts, and we served as the distribution point for ecoteamers passing out flyers for this Saturday's Cafe.

On June 13-14th, EV is holding Fork in the Road: Cultivating Food and Community at Langara College.
There will be a meeting to discuss EV on May 4th. For more information: Ross 604.742.9881 or rmoster@flash.net.

Recipes: Click here to view some great recipies from the Kits Two Eco-Team.

V6K Eco-Team

The V6K Eco Cell is interested in making feasible legislative action happen at the Provincial and Municipal levels.

The action we have taken so far at the Provincial level is to consolidate our environmental concerns, create presentations of our concerns that end in clear questions, and request a meeting with our MLA, Premier Gordon Campbell.

The action we have taken so far at the Municipal level has been a discussion of what we would like to propose to City Council, and the best strategies that we might use to get our concerns across to council members.

Our team roster is currently at 5. We are interested in adding two new members to our team.

Van East Eco Team

The Van East Eco Group is currently working on the Low Carbon Diet workbook, calculating our carbon footprint in order to reduce personal and household carbon output. We share knowledge, experiences and resources with respect to climate change. We want to start connecting with the community in the Commercial Drive area in about a month with concrete actions and cooperation with like-minded groups.

As a group, we attended the worldwide day of action Kyoto Now rally on December 8 (during the Bali talks) at the Vancouver Public Library. We wore bright green headbands which identified us as a community action group. It was cold outside but worth it to listen to so many great speakers, including David Suzuki.

Two of our members attended the 100-Mile Potluck at the Cranberry Commons Cohousing Community in North Burnaby on Jan 5. They were enthusiastic about meeting others who were already deeply involved in local food purchasing. Lots of planning is involved in order to be able to eat locally in the winter months ie. Canning and preserving, which our group is eager to learn
about.

North Burnaby Eco-Team

After their first meeting the North Burnaby Eco-Team has arranged for a movie night. Here's there message:

A message from the NBET: March 15 Saturday, North Burnaby Eco Café invites you to join us to watch the film “A Crude Awakening,. Compelling, intelligent… we are running out of oil and we don’t have a plan.” - discussion to follow. NBEC aims to awaken our minds to climate change and commit to protecting our natural environment. We do not have to wait for the forests to burn, food supplies to shrivel, or species to disappear before we do something.

Join us: March 15 Saturday 7 – 9:30pm at Cranberry Commons, 4272 Albert Street, Burnaby. Email alcidrus@yahoo.com or phone 604-421-6976.