Creatively United for the Planet | Re-Imagining Cities and Waste @creativelyunited | Uploaded February 2021 | Updated October 2024, 14 hours ago.
Additional Q&A + Resources:
creativelyunited.org/re-imagining-cities-waste
Attaining carbon neutrality will have a profound impact on how we design communities and deal with waste. Meet a number of pioneers who are creating innovative solutions to carbon neutrality and ways to change restrictive regulations.
Larry Gardner and Hugh Stephens describe how the Regional Districts of Nanaimo and the Capital Region in Victoria are pursuing different paths to zero waste. Nanaimo is committed to a 90% diversion of waste and is devising innovative fees which encourage waste haulers to divert waste from the Landfill. The Capital Regional District does not have a formal plan for zero waste and uses tipping fees to encourage dumping waste in landfills. Hugh Stephens will demonstrate how community engagement will be critical to switching to a zero waste future.
Award-winning author and poet, Fiona Tinwei Lam, shares her creative approach to educating the public about plastic waste and reduction.
Kim Fowler describes how a number of developments in various communities achieve the highest standards for green buildings in terms of low carbon energy; water conservation and producing local foods. She will demonstrate how community engagement including Indigenous peoples is critical to the success of these projects.
Gene Miller shares how it’s possible to have affordable sustainable homes as a new form of compact living with high energy efficiency, low transportation and reduced waste generation.
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Kim Fowler has 30 years experience working as a sustainability planner for local government. She specializes in innovative design projects such as Dockside Green located in Victoria’s Inner Harbour; a unique development application process in Port Coquitlam in the Greater Vancouver Area based on economic; environmental and social factors and implementing a Waterfront Plan for the Town of Ladysmith on Vancouver Island in collaboration with the Stz’uminus First Nation.
Larry Gardner is the Manager for Solid Waste Services for the Regional District of Nanaimo. The Regional District is one of the first jurisdictions in Canada to embrace zero waste with a formal goal of diverting 90% of waste from the landfill by 2027. Larry has over 30 years experience in the solid waste industry including working for the BC Ministry of Environment regulating landfills and industrial waste. He is pioneering an innovative financing model which encourages waste haulers to divert waste from the landfill replacing traditional tipping fees which can encourage waste dumping.
Hugh Stephens is a Distinguished Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and an Executive Fellow School of Public Policy University of Calgary, plus the Director and Vice Chair of the Society for the Protection of the Mount Work Region, known as the Mount Work Coalition (MWC).
The primary goal of the Mount Work Coalition is to advocate for the reduction of the environmental footprint of the Hartland Landfill and to ensure that public enjoyment of the area is not disrupted by increased traffic, industrial activity or expansion of the Hartland facility.
He actively supported the campaign of the Saanich Inlet Protection Society to oppose the building of a floating LNG plant at Bamberton and is a member of the Willis Point Community Association executive.
Gene Miller is a real estate development consultant who has devoted his professional career to innovative design to promote environmentally and socially advanced projects. He initiated Gaining Ground Urban Sustainability conferences in the 2000’s and writes for various publications on urban sustainability. He is now a practitioner proposing a multi-unit housing development called Affordable Sustainable Homes as a new form of compact living with high energy efficiency; low transportation and waste generation at below market prices.
Arno and Linda Keinonen’s Harmless Home, the first of its kind in the world, is a living example of a carbon neutral building where the carbon sequestration literally begins from the ground up. Host and Creatively United founder, Frances Litman, shares this home and exciting examples of what the future could hold.
Vancouver-based author and poet, Fiona Tinwei Lam shares her creative approach to educating the public about plastic waste and reduction. Her work appears in more than 35 anthologies, including The Best Canadian Poetry in English (both 2010 and 2020) and Forcefield: 77 Women Poets of BC. Her award-winning poetry videos have screened at festivals locally and internationally. She won The New Quarterly’s Nick Blatchford Prize and was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. Lam teaches at Simon Fraser University’s Continuing Studies.
Additional Q&A + Resources:
creativelyunited.org/re-imagining-cities-waste
Attaining carbon neutrality will have a profound impact on how we design communities and deal with waste. Meet a number of pioneers who are creating innovative solutions to carbon neutrality and ways to change restrictive regulations.
Larry Gardner and Hugh Stephens describe how the Regional Districts of Nanaimo and the Capital Region in Victoria are pursuing different paths to zero waste. Nanaimo is committed to a 90% diversion of waste and is devising innovative fees which encourage waste haulers to divert waste from the Landfill. The Capital Regional District does not have a formal plan for zero waste and uses tipping fees to encourage dumping waste in landfills. Hugh Stephens will demonstrate how community engagement will be critical to switching to a zero waste future.
Award-winning author and poet, Fiona Tinwei Lam, shares her creative approach to educating the public about plastic waste and reduction.
Kim Fowler describes how a number of developments in various communities achieve the highest standards for green buildings in terms of low carbon energy; water conservation and producing local foods. She will demonstrate how community engagement including Indigenous peoples is critical to the success of these projects.
Gene Miller shares how it’s possible to have affordable sustainable homes as a new form of compact living with high energy efficiency, low transportation and reduced waste generation.
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Kim Fowler has 30 years experience working as a sustainability planner for local government. She specializes in innovative design projects such as Dockside Green located in Victoria’s Inner Harbour; a unique development application process in Port Coquitlam in the Greater Vancouver Area based on economic; environmental and social factors and implementing a Waterfront Plan for the Town of Ladysmith on Vancouver Island in collaboration with the Stz’uminus First Nation.
Larry Gardner is the Manager for Solid Waste Services for the Regional District of Nanaimo. The Regional District is one of the first jurisdictions in Canada to embrace zero waste with a formal goal of diverting 90% of waste from the landfill by 2027. Larry has over 30 years experience in the solid waste industry including working for the BC Ministry of Environment regulating landfills and industrial waste. He is pioneering an innovative financing model which encourages waste haulers to divert waste from the landfill replacing traditional tipping fees which can encourage waste dumping.
Hugh Stephens is a Distinguished Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and an Executive Fellow School of Public Policy University of Calgary, plus the Director and Vice Chair of the Society for the Protection of the Mount Work Region, known as the Mount Work Coalition (MWC).
The primary goal of the Mount Work Coalition is to advocate for the reduction of the environmental footprint of the Hartland Landfill and to ensure that public enjoyment of the area is not disrupted by increased traffic, industrial activity or expansion of the Hartland facility.
He actively supported the campaign of the Saanich Inlet Protection Society to oppose the building of a floating LNG plant at Bamberton and is a member of the Willis Point Community Association executive.
Gene Miller is a real estate development consultant who has devoted his professional career to innovative design to promote environmentally and socially advanced projects. He initiated Gaining Ground Urban Sustainability conferences in the 2000’s and writes for various publications on urban sustainability. He is now a practitioner proposing a multi-unit housing development called Affordable Sustainable Homes as a new form of compact living with high energy efficiency; low transportation and waste generation at below market prices.
Arno and Linda Keinonen’s Harmless Home, the first of its kind in the world, is a living example of a carbon neutral building where the carbon sequestration literally begins from the ground up. Host and Creatively United founder, Frances Litman, shares this home and exciting examples of what the future could hold.
Vancouver-based author and poet, Fiona Tinwei Lam shares her creative approach to educating the public about plastic waste and reduction. Her work appears in more than 35 anthologies, including The Best Canadian Poetry in English (both 2010 and 2020) and Forcefield: 77 Women Poets of BC. Her award-winning poetry videos have screened at festivals locally and internationally. She won The New Quarterly’s Nick Blatchford Prize and was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. Lam teaches at Simon Fraser University’s Continuing Studies.
