Recently, I had the opportunity to attend a lecture at City Hall by Richard Heinberg, an award-winning author and educator. Heinberg, who hails from the Post Carbon Institute in Santa Rosa California, is a futurist and leading international commentator on Peak Oil. He is the first speaker in the City of Edmonton’s Distinguisher Speaker Series [...]
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Pecha Kucha pronounced pe-cha-ku-cha (with the same emphasis on every syllable) has been an ongoing (and somewhat un-pronounceable) event for almost two years. Edmonton’s NextGen Commitee hosted the first Pecha Kucha in Western Canada back in May of 2008 (Vancouver and Calgary followed soon afterwards with their own events). Pecha Kucha, (for all those wondering [...]
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City Hall is adorned with murals and while they might look like graffiti to some, in fact it is a creative demonstration of citizen engagement – particularly from two normally marginalized groups: youth and people living in homelessness and poverty. Youth from the City of Edmonton Youth Council (CEYC) and iPulse made this project happen [...]
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When I consider the 88+ definitions of the word “open” at dictionary.com I find it difficult to choose one that captures Open as a “Way of Being”. The open I am speaking about is the one that allows you the freedom to be who you are naturally, to be a generous listener and to always [...]
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Since returning from CityCamp at the end of January, I’ve been immersed in the world of #opengov #gov2.0 and the City’s work on #yegdata. I know this probably doesn’t make sense to many of the people reading this, but I’ll try and do my best to explain. No promises though, I’m still trying to wrap my [...]
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