CV2050: Engineering

Andrew Gower is a civil engineer with Wedler Engineering in the Comox Valley. He talks to hanspetermeyer about "infrastructure" and the need for more aggressive targets as part of the #3x2x8 "conversations about sustainability in the Comox Valley" project.

For more on the project, please visit www.CV2050.com or search Facebook for the CV2050 page.

(cc) hanspetermeyer.ca / 2009

What's CV2050?

What exactly is this thing, "CV2050?"

Right now it's the brainchild of three people – David Stapley, Meaghan Cursons, and Hans Peter Meyer. We sat down one evening in the summer of 2009 to mull over things like "sustainability," the "Comox Valley" (the place we've been calling home for quite a few years).

David is recently involved with the 2009 Comox Valley Sustainability Strategy on a professional basis. Meaghan and Hans are long-time participants and observers of "things sustainability" in the Comox Valley and elsewhere.

Our little chat quickly grew past the CVSS process to wondering: OK, so we get a sustainability strategy. Then what?

We're a pretty passionate trio. We love the Comox Valley. We liked (very, very much) that local government is sponsoring the CVSS. We also thought that the "sustainability conversation" needed to get way past what was happening through CVSS.

Our dream with CV2050 is that it picks up and stimulates the local sustainability conversation. This needs to be more than a policy-related, local government strategic planning convo. Whatever "sustainability" means to anyone of us here in the Comox Valley, it does mean change. Talking about it is a step towards making positive change happen more quickly.

So here's the idea: We're just 3 independent citizens. We'll use whatever resources we've got to stimulate the convo. Thanks to the CVSS process, there's a little bit of cash to pay for sparking the first efforts: the 3x2x8 project (see the blog post on it). The bulk of our resources right now, however, are our volunteer time and or passion about this place.

Given our resources, we want to create a buzz about the sustainability convo here in the Comox Valley. We hope that others – people like you, and others who care about life in the Comox Valley – will find ways to pick it up, make it real in your real-time convos with family, friends, co-workers, etc. Our focus is on using "social media" – videos on YouTube and VIMEO, Facebook, Twitter posts, and this blog, for example. We encourage you to comment on these postings. We hope you'll pick up a camera or a recorder or keyboard and create your own posts (and please, please, please tag everything #CV2050 – this helps keep track of the convo on the internet). I'm hoping someone (or a bunch of someones) does the Google Maps thing and starts to annotate the "special places" of this landscape.

So that's it. CV2050. 3 passionate citizens of the Comox Valley, wanting to stimulate and deepen the conversation about sustainability in our community and region. Want to play?

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