Chanchal Cabrera talks about the Comox Valley Land Trust

Chanchal Cabrera is an internationally recognized medical herbalist living in the Comox Valley. She is also a Director with the Comox Valley Land Trust. Chanchal talks to me about why she got involved with CVLT, current projects at CVLT, and why these are important to long term quality of life in the Comox Valley.

This part of a series of "conversations about conservation" sponsored by the Comox Valley Land Trust and the Comox Valley Conservation Strategy.

For more information about the Comox Valley Land Trust, please visit www. CVLandTrust.ca. If you like what you see, please "like" CVLT on Facebook at Facebook.com/​CVLandTrust. You can follow updates and activities at CVLT by following the Twitter account at Twitter.com/​CVLandTrust.

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Judy Walker talks about the founding of the Comox Valley Land Trust

Judy Walker is a long time resident of the Comox Valley. She's also been intimately involved in land use planning, landscape design, conservation and stewardship activities, and now viticulture and farming on her Comox property. Judy is a Landscape Architect and works professionally as a planner for local government. She was also on the Founding Board of the Comox Valley Land Trust (www.CVLandTrust.ca / www.Facebook.com/CVLandTrust).

In this interview Judy talks to me about what got her involved in founding the Comox Valley Land Trust, some of the reasons why we need this kind of organization in our region, one of the principal accomplishments of the Trust during her years (the Nature Without Borders report), and what others of us can do to support the CV Land Trust in it's work, and the work of its partner organizations through initiatives like the Comox Valley Conservation Strategy.

Conversations about Conservation
This is one of a series of conversations about conservation in the Comox Valley being sponsored by the Comox Valley Land Trust and the Comox Valley Conservation Strategy. There are many perspectives on conservation and stewardship and how these have an impact on our quality of life here in this region. This series of conversations will help to draw out some of the reasons why people are involved, and how smarter land use planning and development has a positive impact on all of us in the Comox Valley.

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Verna Mumby talks about the Comox Valley Land Trust

Verna Mumby is an ISA Certified Arborist, PNWISA Tree Assessor, member of the American Society of Consulting Arborists, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Comox Valley Land Trust. Professionally she works with land owners and developers. As a conservation and stewardship volunteer she works to retain the urban forest in the Comox Valley.

In this "conversation about conservation," Verna talks to hanspetermeyer about the Comox Valley Land Trust, how she got involved in this kind of work, the importance of the Nature Without Borders project to developers and conservationists, and the work currently being done by CVLT through the Comox Valley Conservation Strategy.

For a downloadable PDF of the Nature Without Borders report, click here.

For more information on the CVLT, visit their website at www.CVLandTrust.ca, subscribe to the newsletter, or "like" CVLT on Facebook.

This is part of a series of Conversations about Conservation sponsored in part by the Comox Valley Land Trust and the Comox Valley Conservation Strategy (www.CVConservationStrategy.org).

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Caila Holbrook talks about conservation in the Comox Valley

Caila Holbrook is the Business Manager at the Mapping Centre with Comox Valley Project Watershed Society. In this interview, part of a series of Conversations about Conservation in the Comox Valley, Caila talks about her work at the Mapping Centre and with the umbrella Comox Valley Conservation Strategy, why this is important to our community, and what we can do to help keep this region a good place to call home.

Caila has a Masters of Science degree in International Nature Conservation. She grew up in Powell River, so knows our greater region very well. She has also participated in stewardship projects around the world. Her field and research experiences in places like New Zealand, Ecuador, and Europe bring a valuable perspective to our local land use planning and development context.

This is part of a series of Consversations about Conservation in the Comox Valley sponsored by the Comox Valley Conservation Strategy (CVCS). For more information about the CVCS visit CVConservationStrategy.org

Please support the work of CVCS by "liking" the Facebook page.

For more information about CV2050: All about sustainability in the Comox Valley please visit CV2050.com

Thanks for listening!

hanspetermeyer

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Jack Minard talks about the Comox Valley Conservation Strategy

Jack Minard is the Executive Director of the Comox Valley Land Trust. He has been active in a number of stewardship activities in the Comox Valley over the years, and is currently on the Steering Committee of the Comox Valley Conservation Strategy (CVCS).

Jack talks to hanspetermeyer about the background to the CVCS and it's implications for the well-being of communities in the region, and how those of us not involved in stewardship work can best support those who are. This is part of a series of Conversations about Conservation in the Comox Valley.

I interviewed Jack in his office at the Comox Valley Conservation Centre on November 8, 2010.

For more information about the CVCS please visit: www.cvconservationstrategy.org or http://bit.ly/CVCStrategy

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Jack Minard talks to hanspetermeyer about sustainability in the Comox Valley

This is one in a series of conversations about sustainability in the Comox Valley posted as part of the #3x2x8 project. For more on that project, go to CV2050/#3x2x8

We hope this inpsires you to do your own #3x2x8 video, audio, or text interviews. We welcome your posts. Check out our Facebook page, post your interviews, make comments. Please tag everything #3x2x8 or #CV2050 so others can follow the many voices on what a sustainable Comox Valley will look like!