I am always beaming in awe of my sister’s profound beauty and abiding love for those around her. When we were growing up, if she wasn’t walking the neighbours’ dogs, or raising money for the SPCA, she was on Encarta (yes, Encarta) learning about social and environmental opportunities for change. She has always been the most loyal, confident, and eloquent woman I know. And lately, I couldn’t be more proud.
As a fourth year Communications Major at SFU, she has beautifully uncovered that rare intersection, between skill set and passion, to design and co-create “Th!nk VanCity” (TVC). In conjunction with three other students, TVC is asking Vancouver thoughtful questions, and listening openly to its answers, to bring real dialogue (and eventually feasible solutions) to the City’s deepest concerns.
And, on Saturday, October 15, when Vancouver leveraged the global attention garnered by Occupy Wall Street to host its own movement for change, TVC was there to bring cohesion and focus to a wide range of themes and topics. The group applied interest and value exploration techniques to cultivate a rich and inclusive interchange of opinions and ideas, and will be sharing its video footage here, in the coming weeks.
Whether its through Facebook or film, Twitter or TV, we can see that the world is awakening to a broken financial system; our current economic model fails to account for the cost of rainforest destruction, or the expense of social oppression, in the price of a coffee or sweater. These intangible, yet invaluable, externalities are now being realized through debt, civil war, and climate change. And even if Occupy (Insert your street name here) isn’t the solution to our deeply rooted problems, it certainly is capturing the audience of the world, including that 1%.
Most importantly, though, because of groups like TVC and people like you, we are part of a growing movement that is building the emotional capacity needed for a safe, united, and sustainable world. You can still be rich…
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