by John Horn | Aug 2, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
Build Community in Apartment Buildings Apartment buildings are complex places when it comes to building community. This article explores how to build community in apartment buildings. Last Friday evening I arrived home from work via bicycle with a few reusable bags of...
by Kurt Heinrich | Jul 25, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
Over the past week I’ve visited Paris and Vienna and become enraptured by their bike sharing programs. Both cities boast cheap memberships for out-of-towners, which charge you by the half hour (Paris) and hour (Vienna) to ride. The first little while is always...
by potential | Jul 24, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
When I was a kid, I used to love going to the library. There was something amazing about going down to the local library with an empty book bag, and coming home with a bag full of borrowed magic that I could pore over for hours. Then I started earning money, and my...
by John Horn | Jul 23, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
Editors’ note: Kurt and John are firm believers that Vancouver can and should be the Canadian epicenter for growing the sport and culture of soccer football soccer. This is a self-described healthy community. We can play outside year-round, as fields are rarely closed...
by potential | Jul 18, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
There is no need to argue about the complete failure of the drug war. Repression has clearly been disastrous, filling jails, criminalizing the poor, destroying communities in most countries of the Americas. Once Colombia, now Mexico illustrates the drug war absurdity...
by John Horn | Jul 11, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
A few weeks ago, Australia Bureau Chief Jilly Charlwood contributed a fantastic article about Laneway Learning – below is some information about what Vancouver is doing to showcase some unique, behind-the-scenes communities – and potential – of its...
