Mike Lewis is the Director of the Canadian Centre for Community Renewal and well-known author in the field of community economic development. Individual change and global change are important, but what about our communities and regions, how do we reweave and reorganize our economic life into a more self-reliant and co-operative framework? There are no simple answers. But there are strategic pathways and signposts. This talk will illustrate ideas and innovations critical to meeting our basic needs - finance, fuel, food and shelter - seeking realistic solutions and our capacity to secure the changes we make as we struggle to build pathways to a very different future.

With support from Faculty of Business,
Central 1 Credit Union, Federated Co-operatives and The Co-operators