Comox Valley residents are talking about sustainability
Hailing from the Comox Valley I try my best to keep tabs on what’s going on there. From a fellow Islander, Hans Peter Meyer, I kept seeing something he was interviewing Valley residents about called CV2050. Born out of conversations between Hans, David Stapley and Meaghan Cursons around 8 pillars of sustainability (social & community well-being, food security, infrastructure
ecosystems, environment, parks, economic health, transportation, building & site development, housing & neighbourhoods) and the fact that they love the Comox Valley and want to see it thrive in years to come (with specific goals to reach by the year 2050) , they are interviewing a variety of Valley leaders in the hopes deepening the conversation about sustainability in the Comox Valley community and region.
I watched his 3×2x8 interview with Roberta Stevenson of the BC Shellfish Growers Association and thought “Well, it’s about the Valley and sustainability, yes I will re-tweet!” Be careful what you wish for, because not two days later I got a message from Hans asking if he could interview me on the topic of food Sustainability in the Valley. Of course, without question, I agreed.
If you’re interested about reading what some major players in the Comox Valley are saying about these 8 pillars of sustainability, here’s the run down:
Sam Sommers
Gary Rolston
Andrew Gower
Patti Fletcher
Mark Holland
Betty-Anne Juba
Vivian Dean
Tom Dishlevoy
Roberta Stevenson (BC Shellfish Growers’ Assoc)
Jack Minard
Chef Ronald St. Pierre
judy walker
Jackie Connelly
Meaghan Cursons
Paul Krismer
If you’d like to keep up to date with this project you can follow Hans Peter Meyer on Twitter and join the 3×2x8 Facebook page. And, Hans is really hoping that others will pick up the interview and run with it - so if you’d like to be interviewed, or would like to interview someone in the Comox Valley on one of these pillars, give either Hans or I a holler.
Tags: 3x2x8, comox valley sustainability, CV2050, hans peter meyer