From the Carshare website: The Nanaimo CarShare Cooperative is a non-profit community cooperative carsharing organization incorporated in November 2010 to serve the Nanaimo region of central Vancouver Island. Individuals and employers join the Nanaimo CarShare Cooperative. These members reserve time on the Co-op’s shared vehicles through a Co-op managed online and telephone vehicle reservations system. […]
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Good Bye Nanaimo… A New Beginning!
Like many young people, I thought the grass was greener elsewhere. I lived in Alberta, Vancouver, the interior of BC and then finally the island called me back! I returned to Nanaimo in 1996. I was in the most perfect place on the earth within ancient rain forests. I loved that I could drive up […]
Gleaning Program Invites Public Participation
Local food security initiative is looking to reduce food waste With global food and hunger issues looming large, it is easy to be overwhelmed with the scope of the problem and not know what to do to help. But hunger and malnutrition exist in our community too and many local agencies and programs exist with […]
Sequence of Silence and Sound:
“Gold and shadow is the music of Dane Letourneau and friends…it is also an arbutus in the blazing glory of the afternoon, the contrast of pavement and path…. Sun melting into everything you see, or warm earth between your fingers,” writes Dane Letourneau of Gold and Shadow on the band’s website. The Nanaimo based band […]
Green Building
Benefits of Green Building and Compact Community Development Green buildings and compact communities reduce the impacts of our built environment on the natural world. Green buildings use less water and energy, and generate less waste than conventional buildings. Compact communities minimize the area of land converted to housing, support alternatives to the automobile and have […]