What Does it Mean to be “Green” on Bowen?
In the spring of 2008 fourteen islanders, selected by Council, sat around tables in Municipal Hall and began to answer this question. They came from a variety of backgrounds, with expertise in climate change solutions, social justice, green buildings, affordability, waste reduction and ecosystem protection – approaches [...]
The committee that’s working on updating our Official Community Plan (OCP) asked all of the various groups on the island to submit ideas for a forum that they held a couple of weeks ago. More than twenty submissions have been posted on the bowenocpupdate website. Taken as a whole, they provide an excellent insight into [...]
Also tagged OCPElinor Ostrom just won the Nobel Prize for economics. If this momentous occasion slipped by without you taking much notice, I’m sure that you weren’t alone. But Elinor is a radical. She has rocked the world of economic theory by showing how people are not just units of consumption, taking as much as they can [...]
Also tagged Elinor Ostrom, waste managementRarely, sitting down to write a column do I find that there is too much to write about. But I’ve just returned from holidays and find that there are a myriad of interesting things happening. This isn’t going to be a column per se but more a collection of random thoughts and a preview of [...]
Also tagged Cape Roger Curtis, CO2 Emissions, Ferry, green collar jobs, Island Life, new parkAs we move along with the updating of our Official Community Plan (OCP) it is probably worthwhile to look back on how well the plan has served us to date and what we might to do to make it more usable in the future. The first thing that we have to acknowledge is that there [...]
Also tagged Housing, OCP, Snug CoveLast week the Cape Roger Curtis (CRC) developers filed a subdivision application with the municipality. I haven’t seen it yet but I am very curious. As some of you may already know CRC is a 640-acre parcel of land on the southwest tip of Bowen. The developers who own it recently went to some lengths [...]
Also tagged Cape Roger Curtis, Snug CoveThere are two things happening this month that you might care about. The first is the great plastic field debate on Saturday the 17th. The municipality had almost agreed to partially fund a synthetic turf field at the school but, just before they gave final approval last summer, a number of people spoke out against [...]
Also tagged Cape Roger Curtis, TurfOur new council has hit the ground running. At their first meeting Nerys Poole presented a notice of motion that would instruct staff to inform the Cape Roger Curtis (CRC) Development people that their Neighbourhood Plan will not be incorporated into our Official Community Plan. (It is, of course, much longer winded than that but [...]
Also tagged Cape Roger CurtisBoy, do you guys ever take your politics seriously. In a country where most municipalities expect about 30% of the eligible voters to cast ballots in local elections we see 68% of our voters show up. 1457 of us individually marked down our choices to create the council that is going to lead us through [...]
Also tagged Cape Roger Curtis“I have a dream”, no, already taken. “Yes we can”, “take heart”, something that includes “heart soars” would be good. Coming up with a new inspirational catch phrase to use in a political campaign is not easy. I don’t think that anybody running for council has even tried to come up with anything inspiring. But [...]
Also tagged Ferry