Vancouver is the second city for Cascadia Field School and our first stop on the road. We arrived Thursday May 16 and settled in to the YWCA hostel downtown. As we toured around Vancouver, the students kept in mind the purpose of our journey in the Cascadia region. For us, urban 'sustainability' involves social and economic dimensions as well as the more obvious environmental ones. We aim to see how each of the sites we visit and people we hear from are actively contributing to sustainability.
Welcome to the interactive map / blog of the 2013 Cascadia Sustainability Field School. We are a group of UVic geography students traveling down the coast from Victoria, BC to San Francisco, CA meeting with community groups, First Nations, planners, academics and others grappling with the pressing social, ecological, economic and cultural challenges in our region.
This video highlights Jim Diers, community organizer extraordinaire and his efforts fighting for social justice in Seattle, featuring the socially minded revitalization of the High Point community.
The ReBuilding Center in Portland, Oregon, is celebrated throughout Cascadia and beyond. Created by Shane Endicott and friends through Our United Villages, this project repurposes building materials, but as you will see, does so much more to build sustainable community.