by potential | Oct 27, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
My brief forays into Vancouver’s local art communities have yielded talented artists making incredible art, though I’ve noticed that the Vancouver art scene often feels like just that: a hipster-centric scene. Even with the rise of public art and a growing sensibility...
by potential | Oct 26, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
After 10 months of election campaigning, Rob Ford is the mayor elect for Toronto. While the results are enough to induce thoughts of leaving the city that I’ve called home for the past five years (maybe Calgary is accepting applications for an environmental historian...
by potential | Oct 22, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
Community is living and breathing all around us. We walk though them, work in them, compete as them. Together we are community. If our external community is a living, breathing organism are we not our own living community, and I’m not just talking about eyelash mites....
by potential | Oct 21, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
In a recent study by the Sloot Institute (and by institute I mean me and some friends…and by that I mean me and John) a potential correlation between passion and social change was discovered. But it’s not what you think. Most of us, especially those at the Sloot...
by potential | Oct 18, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
In an ideal world, citizens´ desire to participate would create and build communities. In our less than perfect world, communities often get strengthened when facing an external threat. Because they tend to affect everybody, environmental hazards frequently play that...
