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Dec. 05, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Grant Applications Close January 5: Want to Take Your Planning Team to Copenhagen?

      How would you like your planning and health team to go on a five day workshop to…
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Dec. 02, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: Making Healthy Places: Designing & Building for Well-Being & Equity

Here are three sought after thinkers about place and space all together in one webinar thanks to Island Press. They…
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Nov. 30, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free In-Person Event/Online Webinar: Facing the Flames: Co-Existing with Forest Fire

This is both an in-person and an online event. The emergence of catastrophic mega-fires over the past five years demands…
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Nov. 29, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: Women, Food & Agriculture: Solutions to the Plastic Crisis

As part of the Women Food and Agriculture Network Conference in the first weekend of December, Erica Cirino will be…
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Nov. 28, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Want to Slow Traffic & Make Your Streets Safer? BC Vision Zero Grants Now Available

Nathan Davidowicz  has been an active travel advocate for over three decade.  He sends out to interested parties “BC Canada…
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Nov. 25, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: Winter Snow Maintenance and Active School Travel

Between 2020 and 2022, Green Communities Canada and the Human Environments Analysis Lab at Western University conducted extensive policy research…
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Nov. 24, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: Understanding Disaster Insurance & How That Changes Planning Cities

The frequency and intensity of natural disasters—such as hurricanes, floods, and storms—are on the rise, threatening our way of life…
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Nov. 23, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: Walkability, Exploring Destinations Through Urban Design

Exploring Spatial Destinations through an Urban Design Context The relationship between a person’s mobility, i.e., walking, bicycle, wheelchair, car, is…
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Nov. 22, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Vision Zero Network Presents Free Webinar-Developing a Safe System Approach and Vision Zero

What does it take to start a Vision Zero program and to build a strong Action Plan? Join us in…
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Nov. 21, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

West Coast Affordable Housing Conference Feb 2-4 2023

The Planning Institute of British Columbia Vancouver Island North Chapter is excited to bring you a professional development event on…
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Nov. 21, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: Traffic Calming Measures to Encourage Active School Travel

Between 2020 and 2022, Green Communities Canada and the Human Environments Analysis Lab at Western University conducted extensive policy research…
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Nov. 18, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: Donut Economics & The Built Environment In Birmingham & Oslo

What are Doughnut Economics? “They consist of two concentric rings: a social foundation, to ensure that no one is left…
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Nov. 17, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar TODAY on a Vital Issue: Why Don’t We Insist on Truck Side Guards?

This is such an important issue. We live in a region where regularly  75 percent of commercial vehicles fail basic…
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Nov. 15, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: How Are Complete Streets Being Rolled out in the United States?

The Smart Growth Network presents this free webinar. Implementing Complete Streets policies requires major shifts in framework and thinking compared…

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