Coming in the Spring 2006 edition of Making Waves

A Strategic Mismatch
Housing is one obvious strategy for neighbourhood renewal. But beware the recent push in federal low-cost housing policy towards individual home ownership. It is value-loaded, and has disturbing implications for CED practice.

Reconstructing Who We Are
A core of leaders has emerged in Winnipeg's growing Aboriginal population over the last 30 years. They are shaping a distinctive approach to community revitalization that firmly roots both personal healing and organizational development in Aboriginal values.

Past the Peak
The end of cheap oil will close many of the economic doors that communities have pried open over the last 50 years - and open new ones. A number of initiatives are already acting on that mix of opportunity and threat, showing us how to build vital communities when energy is dear.

Something to look forward to this summer - a special edition of Making Waves magazine on the application of CED to rebuilding secure food systems - "Growing Hope."

Don McNair
Centre for Community Enterprise - http://www.cedworks.com/
1601 - 25th Avenue, Vernon, B.C. V1T 1M8 CANADA
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