The 100 Mile Ideas Diet
| Host: | Anna Planedin |
| Airs: | Off Air - Archives available here |
Join host Anna Planedin to hear tasty ideas and coffee shop dialogue from the CIEL conversation cafe series at Oso Negro.
The 100 Mile Ideas Diet is a series of conversation cafés organized by the Centre for Innovative and Entrepreneurial Leadership (CIEL). The series’ purpose is to link people with the richness of expertise that resides locally. The series is about networking, sparking inspiration, and making innovative ideas accessible. To find out more about CIEL, visit http://www.theciel.com/
The series takes place from March until July of 2009 at Oso Negro in Nelson, BC. The series is sponsored by the Columbia Basin Trust, the Nelson and District Credit Union, Kootenay Co-op Radio, the Nelson Daily News, Oso Negro, Radiant Audio and Otter Books.
Episodes
Aug 21 2009 - Affordable Housing 4
The last of the 100 Mile Ideas Diet series, this show consists of 100% edited highlights from the discussion session at the affordable housing conversation café. Strategies involving community engagement, cooperative housing and land sharing, and systemic advocacy are explored.
Download MP3 of this EpisodeAug 07 2009 - Affordable Housing 3
Filled with audience and speaker dialogue about public policy issues and affordable housing strategies, this show will make you feel like you are inside of the Oso Negro conversation café event.
Jul 31 2009 - Affordable Housing 2
This show features a presentation from Stacey Locke, Community Outreach worker in Nelson, British Columbia. Most of the show contains the first segment of audience dialogue and discussion from the conversation cafe that followed speaker presentations. This show, and the rest following it, will air highlights from the 2 hours of rich dialogue that ensued at Oso Negro during the affordable housing event.
Jul 24 2009 - affordable housing 1
Michelle Mungall and George Penfold give their thoughts on issues and strategies concerning affordable housing, particularly as they relate to public policy and research.
Michelle Mungall was elected as MLA for the Nelson/Creston riding in 2009, and has experience in the field as the Community Coordinator for the Nelson Committee on Homelessness. George Penfold is Regional Innovation Chair in Rural Economic Development at Selkirk College in Castlegar B.C. and Adjunct Professor at the School of Business and Economics at Thompson Rivers University. His experience lies in rural economic development and policy/legislation research and development.
Jun 12 2009 - Localization
Localization: "A strategy to build societies based on the local production of food, energy and goods, and the local development of currency, governance and culture. The main goals of relocalization are to increase community energy security, to strengthen local economies, and to improve environmental conditions and social equity" (Post Carbon Institute).
The first in the localization series, this show features a presentation by Jon Steinman (Deconstructing Dinner) about a Community Food Matters gathering that took place in Nelson, British Columbia. It also features an interview with Paula Kiss, one of the speakers for the localization event and the founder/owner of the Building Tree, Nelson's green building hub.
May 29 2009 - Business Vitality 2
Continuing on with the theme of business vitality, this show features presentations from Russell Precious, founder of Capers Natural Foods Stores in Vanouver BC and Paul Edney, author of Canadian bestseller 'Change the World for 10 Bucks.' Each presenter shares his unconventional outlook on community-minded business.
May 15 2009 - Business Vitality
Be transorted into the 2nd 100 Mile Ideas Diet event and catch presentations by Mike Solte, Executive Director of the Centre for Innovative and Entrepreneurial Leadership (CIEL), and Zoe Creighton, producer of Canadian Voices and Director of the Upper Columbia Cooperatives Society. Under the theme of business vitality and the entrepreneurial mindset, they speak about social capital, innovative and community-minded business models (cooperatives) and what makes an 'entrepreneur.'
May 08 2009 - Arts and Culture in Economic Development 2
A continuation from the first episode, this show features a presentation by Allison Girvan as well as highlights from the coffeeshop dialogue that transpired at the March 20th event entitled Community By Design: Arts and Culture in Economic Development.
May 01 2009 - Arts and Culture in Economic Developnent
Taken from the first 100 Mile Ideas Diet event, this show captures ideas presented by Marg Stacey, Geoff Burns and Allison Girvan as well as select individuals from the 77 person crowd who attended the event. All ideas pertain to connections between the arts and economic development.
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