wlm4 at cornell.edu (Will
05-15-1995, 03:08 PM
We thought our internet neighbours would like to share our fun today.
The CED Centre has initiated an annual award for promoting community
economic development in British Columbia. In future years we will be
taking nominations from around the province, but this year, we are very
pleased to be able to launch the award by giving it to the CBC Vancouver
"Early Edition" team, James Roberts, Producer, Hal Wake, Host, and Kathryn
Gretsinger, writer/broadcaster.
You may recall the discussion of Portland's Yellow Bike Program, which
resulted from the CBC interview.
This program is the CBC weekday morning braodcast for the lower coast and
Fraser Valley areas, from Bella Coola south to Tsawassen, and from
Vancouver Island to Chilliwack, on the West Coast of Canada.
John T. Pierce, Centre Director, presented the award on
the Early Edition program itself, at 8:45 this morning.
Now, the team, and CBC Vancouver's Head of Radio, Robert Sunter, is
visiting us here at the Centre, on Simon Fraser's Burnaby Mountain campus,
where they will join us, and the President of SFU, for lunch. We have also
invited two guests from the community: a representative of the BC Working
Group on CED, which will shortly be publishing its "Stories of CED", which
we mentioned some time ago, and Bob Gilson, of Tradeworks, one of the
organizations featured by the broadcasters. Right now, the Early Edition
team are here for a bit of show-and-tell of some of our projects, including
CED-NET.
We now invite them to say a few words:
Robert Sunter, Head of Radio, CBC Vancouver:
-- in truth, the award should go to the CED centre itself.
James Roberts, Early Edition Producer:
-- ya-hoo! Thanks to this center for our award ....and speaking as the
producer of a local morning show, I promise we'll continue to do stories
about people who help other people!
Hal Wake, Early Edition Host:
-- What I love about doing interviews on the radio is the direct,
immediate exchange of ideas. Unfortunately, we at the Early Edition
are technological slugs, so for the time being this will have to be
a one way conversation. But when we do get our E-mail up and running
we will make sure you have our address so we can find out what YOU are
doing. Talk to you then.
Kathryn Gretsinger, writer/broadcaster.
-- Who knew? When we, at the Early Edition, began covering CED we
certainly had no name for it. I think that the idea of a "center" set up
to talk to people who are doing things for each other is incredible. Good
luck and thank you recognizing us. p.s. if any of you are reading
this,particularily those of you on the southcoast, are witnessing CED in
your neighbourhood...write and let us know.
The First Annual Award for Promoting Community Economic Development gives
recognition to the Early Edition team, Hal Wake, Host, Kathryn Gretsinger,
Writer/Broadcaster and James Roberts, Producer for "their invaluable work
in celebrating the initiative and self-reliance of communities."
Below are the CED-related features which have been heard on the Early
Edition in the past year:
(1) Together We Can
* Katheryn Gretsinger's report on a Gastown project to alleviate
hostilities between tourism-oriented retail shopkeepers and panhandlers.
* A streetworker was hired by the Gastown Business Association to come up
with a solution. He found ways for the shopkeepers to hire the
panhandlers, such as cleaning up the overnight spillage from dumpsters, and
keeping the sidewalks presentable.
* Shopkeepers came to regard their local panhandler as their own, and to
share coffee with them. One panhandler, after some months of working,
without punch-clock pressures, or even "job re-entry process" pressures,
was able to go find himself a more regular job.
* As a result of this feature, Katheryn Gretsinger came as a guest speaker
to the CED 400 class at Harbour Centre, and we became alerted to the Early
Edition's initiatives.
(2) & (3) Tradeworks - Youth Training Program, Bob Gilson, Director
* Katheryn Gretsinger, writer
* Gilson, a carpenter and social worker, who, with his son, also a
carpenter, have combined the two professions into a program for street
youth.
* Twice featured, once on the program generally, and once on their
collaboration with Emily Carr Design Faculty students to design affordable
and durable furniture for Downtown Eastside hotels, involving consultation
of both the occupants and the managers of the hotels to gain input into the
design. Project has nto yet proceeded to the manufacturing stage
(obviously furniture would also be suitable for small suite occupants, such
as Vancouver's many basement suites.
* Tradeworks has an interesting organizational evolution from a private
company to a non-profit society.
* Bob Gilson has since been a guest speaker at the CED 403 class on Case
Studies in CED, and several of our students have taken an interest in this
enterprise.
(4) Portland Oregon's Yellow Bike Program
* Hal Wake interviewing Tom O'Keefe of Portland Oregon
* The program was developed an an answer to petty bike theft, often done
by youth for transportation purposes.
* Brightly painted yellow bicycles are placed around the city at various
intersections. Because they are reconditioned to be one-speed, and
painted completely in yellow, the bikes are hardly ever worth stealing.
Anyone is welcome, at their own risk, to take one, use it, and leave it at
the next nearest large intersection.
* The program is inspired by Amsterdam's 1960s White Bike program. A
similar program is functioning in Copenhagen, using deposit locks, similar
to supermarket carts here.
* In Portland, they provide pollution free transportation in the city
* A workshop staffed by volunteers trains youngsters to repair and
service bicycles, and in doing so, earn their own bicycles.
* The program gets donations of old bikes, and is endorsed by the city.
Bike repair shops have taken to doing repairs for free on occasion. But
the program has never been funded by any granting agency.
* The Centre put this feature on its CED-NET, and a world-wide discussion
took place because of the Early Edition's work.
(6) Peer Assisted Lending Program
* Calmeadow Foundation's Peer Assisted Lending program, directed by Peter
Ireland of Calmeadow West.
* Peter Ireland is a part-time student in the CED Centre's Post
Baccalaureate Diploma Program
* A loan program for those who do not have conventional assets, but who
can get support from their community.
* Resulted on a flood of calls to Calmeadow West.
* CEDC regularly refers people to the PAL program, including Bob Gilson of
Tradeworks.
(7) Share Farmers
* A group of Fraser Valley organic farmers who sell shares in their crops
to city dwellers wanting a steady supply of farm produce.
* The Early Edition publicized their request for more shareholders.
* They are now seeking, with the help of a Farmers Market Liaison
Committee, including one of our students doing her practicum, a market
location in Vancouver East.
We have shared this award with our internet neighbours for the sheer fun,
but also in case you would like to pass along your stories of community
initiative and self reliance in sustainable social and economic
development, to us, and to the CBC. But perhaps also your own local radio
station could be convinced to carry such features.
Cheers!
Penny Simpson
CED Centre Secretary
psimpson@sfu.ca
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CED-NET in an unmoderated group whose purpose is to share knowledge,
expertise, and source materials to assist each other in the practice of
CED. Relevant repostings from other lists are welcome. Discussions are
neighbourly.
To subscribe to ced-net, send an e-mail message to
majordomo@sfu.ca
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Your name is not required in the body of the message.
CED-NET is a service of the
Community Economic Development Centre
EAA 2127
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C.
Canada V5A 1S6
Phone: 604-291-5850 Fax: 604-291-5788
Internet direct address: cedc@sfu.ca
or Penny Simpson psimpson@sfu.ca
Community Economic Development is a process by which communities can
initiate and generate their own solutions to their common economic problems
and thereby build long-term community capacity and foster the integration
of economic, social and environmental objectives. It is based on the
concepts of sustainability and appropriate technology, inspired by the work
of E. F. Schumacher ("Small is Beautiful) and George McRobie ("Small is
Possible"). [Based on the Ross/McRobie Report, 1987, which lead to the
founding of this teaching and research centre of the university].
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The CED Centre has initiated an annual award for promoting community
economic development in British Columbia. In future years we will be
taking nominations from around the province, but this year, we are very
pleased to be able to launch the award by giving it to the CBC Vancouver
"Early Edition" team, James Roberts, Producer, Hal Wake, Host, and Kathryn
Gretsinger, writer/broadcaster.
You may recall the discussion of Portland's Yellow Bike Program, which
resulted from the CBC interview.
This program is the CBC weekday morning braodcast for the lower coast and
Fraser Valley areas, from Bella Coola south to Tsawassen, and from
Vancouver Island to Chilliwack, on the West Coast of Canada.
John T. Pierce, Centre Director, presented the award on
the Early Edition program itself, at 8:45 this morning.
Now, the team, and CBC Vancouver's Head of Radio, Robert Sunter, is
visiting us here at the Centre, on Simon Fraser's Burnaby Mountain campus,
where they will join us, and the President of SFU, for lunch. We have also
invited two guests from the community: a representative of the BC Working
Group on CED, which will shortly be publishing its "Stories of CED", which
we mentioned some time ago, and Bob Gilson, of Tradeworks, one of the
organizations featured by the broadcasters. Right now, the Early Edition
team are here for a bit of show-and-tell of some of our projects, including
CED-NET.
We now invite them to say a few words:
Robert Sunter, Head of Radio, CBC Vancouver:
-- in truth, the award should go to the CED centre itself.
James Roberts, Early Edition Producer:
-- ya-hoo! Thanks to this center for our award ....and speaking as the
producer of a local morning show, I promise we'll continue to do stories
about people who help other people!
Hal Wake, Early Edition Host:
-- What I love about doing interviews on the radio is the direct,
immediate exchange of ideas. Unfortunately, we at the Early Edition
are technological slugs, so for the time being this will have to be
a one way conversation. But when we do get our E-mail up and running
we will make sure you have our address so we can find out what YOU are
doing. Talk to you then.
Kathryn Gretsinger, writer/broadcaster.
-- Who knew? When we, at the Early Edition, began covering CED we
certainly had no name for it. I think that the idea of a "center" set up
to talk to people who are doing things for each other is incredible. Good
luck and thank you recognizing us. p.s. if any of you are reading
this,particularily those of you on the southcoast, are witnessing CED in
your neighbourhood...write and let us know.
The First Annual Award for Promoting Community Economic Development gives
recognition to the Early Edition team, Hal Wake, Host, Kathryn Gretsinger,
Writer/Broadcaster and James Roberts, Producer for "their invaluable work
in celebrating the initiative and self-reliance of communities."
Below are the CED-related features which have been heard on the Early
Edition in the past year:
(1) Together We Can
* Katheryn Gretsinger's report on a Gastown project to alleviate
hostilities between tourism-oriented retail shopkeepers and panhandlers.
* A streetworker was hired by the Gastown Business Association to come up
with a solution. He found ways for the shopkeepers to hire the
panhandlers, such as cleaning up the overnight spillage from dumpsters, and
keeping the sidewalks presentable.
* Shopkeepers came to regard their local panhandler as their own, and to
share coffee with them. One panhandler, after some months of working,
without punch-clock pressures, or even "job re-entry process" pressures,
was able to go find himself a more regular job.
* As a result of this feature, Katheryn Gretsinger came as a guest speaker
to the CED 400 class at Harbour Centre, and we became alerted to the Early
Edition's initiatives.
(2) & (3) Tradeworks - Youth Training Program, Bob Gilson, Director
* Katheryn Gretsinger, writer
* Gilson, a carpenter and social worker, who, with his son, also a
carpenter, have combined the two professions into a program for street
youth.
* Twice featured, once on the program generally, and once on their
collaboration with Emily Carr Design Faculty students to design affordable
and durable furniture for Downtown Eastside hotels, involving consultation
of both the occupants and the managers of the hotels to gain input into the
design. Project has nto yet proceeded to the manufacturing stage
(obviously furniture would also be suitable for small suite occupants, such
as Vancouver's many basement suites.
* Tradeworks has an interesting organizational evolution from a private
company to a non-profit society.
* Bob Gilson has since been a guest speaker at the CED 403 class on Case
Studies in CED, and several of our students have taken an interest in this
enterprise.
(4) Portland Oregon's Yellow Bike Program
* Hal Wake interviewing Tom O'Keefe of Portland Oregon
* The program was developed an an answer to petty bike theft, often done
by youth for transportation purposes.
* Brightly painted yellow bicycles are placed around the city at various
intersections. Because they are reconditioned to be one-speed, and
painted completely in yellow, the bikes are hardly ever worth stealing.
Anyone is welcome, at their own risk, to take one, use it, and leave it at
the next nearest large intersection.
* The program is inspired by Amsterdam's 1960s White Bike program. A
similar program is functioning in Copenhagen, using deposit locks, similar
to supermarket carts here.
* In Portland, they provide pollution free transportation in the city
* A workshop staffed by volunteers trains youngsters to repair and
service bicycles, and in doing so, earn their own bicycles.
* The program gets donations of old bikes, and is endorsed by the city.
Bike repair shops have taken to doing repairs for free on occasion. But
the program has never been funded by any granting agency.
* The Centre put this feature on its CED-NET, and a world-wide discussion
took place because of the Early Edition's work.
(6) Peer Assisted Lending Program
* Calmeadow Foundation's Peer Assisted Lending program, directed by Peter
Ireland of Calmeadow West.
* Peter Ireland is a part-time student in the CED Centre's Post
Baccalaureate Diploma Program
* A loan program for those who do not have conventional assets, but who
can get support from their community.
* Resulted on a flood of calls to Calmeadow West.
* CEDC regularly refers people to the PAL program, including Bob Gilson of
Tradeworks.
(7) Share Farmers
* A group of Fraser Valley organic farmers who sell shares in their crops
to city dwellers wanting a steady supply of farm produce.
* The Early Edition publicized their request for more shareholders.
* They are now seeking, with the help of a Farmers Market Liaison
Committee, including one of our students doing her practicum, a market
location in Vancouver East.
We have shared this award with our internet neighbours for the sheer fun,
but also in case you would like to pass along your stories of community
initiative and self reliance in sustainable social and economic
development, to us, and to the CBC. But perhaps also your own local radio
station could be convinced to carry such features.
Cheers!
Penny Simpson
CED Centre Secretary
psimpson@sfu.ca
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CED-NET in an unmoderated group whose purpose is to share knowledge,
expertise, and source materials to assist each other in the practice of
CED. Relevant repostings from other lists are welcome. Discussions are
neighbourly.
To subscribe to ced-net, send an e-mail message to
majordomo@sfu.ca
with no subject line, and the following in the body:
subscribe ced-net
Your name is not required in the body of the message.
CED-NET is a service of the
Community Economic Development Centre
EAA 2127
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C.
Canada V5A 1S6
Phone: 604-291-5850 Fax: 604-291-5788
Internet direct address: cedc@sfu.ca
or Penny Simpson psimpson@sfu.ca
Community Economic Development is a process by which communities can
initiate and generate their own solutions to their common economic problems
and thereby build long-term community capacity and foster the integration
of economic, social and environmental objectives. It is based on the
concepts of sustainability and appropriate technology, inspired by the work
of E. F. Schumacher ("Small is Beautiful) and George McRobie ("Small is
Possible"). [Based on the Ross/McRobie Report, 1987, which lead to the
founding of this teaching and research centre of the university].
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