Thrivability, Sustainability, Comox Valley = #CV2050 = Lottsa fun!

by hans peter meyer

OK. Turn back the dial about... 15 years? Who's at the table? @meaghancursons, DCS (doesn't have a twitter handle yet, poor guy), @hanspetermeyer. Not the same table as today, but with similar kinds of energy.

Dial into 2009. DCS isn't doing youth work anymore. MC isn't just fresh from running the youngest most impressive Green campaign any of us have ever seen and about to become hpm's fave-ever employee/collaborator. hpm isn't being Mr. Small Town & Rural Communities BC. But we're all still talking about the same things: how much we love the Comox Valley, how excited we are to be engaged in making stuff happen here. Very good.

Except, now DCS is doing cool work with local governments, NGOs, and high-profile consultants on "sustainability" and "conservation" – BIG topic, important stuff. MC is Queen of the funnest festival around, and has just been handed a great job with OurBigEarth doing what she does so absolutely well: creating partnerships and connecting the dots. Hank, well, he's not sure what he's doing, but he's having a good time doing it (actually, I do know what I'm doing: mostly it's dancing, playing with food and beverages, and exercising various other social media skills – online and behind the bar at Hank's Bar & Grill on Avenida Willemar).

This afternoon and evening saw the MC-DCS-hpm trio encamped in the kitchen and then the garden, eventually with glasses of very nice 2004 Z3 from Hainle Vineyards (thanks to a great little wine-pairing evening at Martine's Bistro way back in '05). What were we doing? Talking about social media, sustainability, thrivability, the Comox Valley, Imagine Nanaimo, Valley Vision, the past, the future, how to animate convos, how to create energy that lasts beyond policy planning strategic exercises, etc etc. Lottsa fun.

You'll probably see a little of this floating around. Search for things tagged #CV2050 on twitter and Facebook and YouTube – here, and here – and elsewhere. You might even see references to old things like the "Land Use Café" revived as something else – "Thrivability Café?" Hmmm... Also, check out what going to be happening on google maps. In the not too distant future you'll see things tagged there with #CV2050 as well.

We three have imagined amazing things in the past. It was muy cool to be imagining together again. Watch this – and other – spaces. Lottsa fun! ;-)

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