Wherever you call home, and whatever your passion, the CommUnity Innovation Lab (CIL) will help you get informed, connected, and inspired so you can get busy making your community healthier, happier, and more prosperous!
As BC’s first citizen-inspired, multi-sector CIL, this exciting event combines emerging public engagement and social innovation tactics to help people from communities of all sizes reach their environmental, social, cultural, and/or economic targets.
The CIL spotlight will shine on three overarching themes with four breakout topics for each.
| HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT: | Environmental Protection, Climate Action, Zero Waste, Smart Growth. |
| HEALTHY PEOPLE: | Social Resources, Food Security, Sustainable Mobility, Cultural Abundance. |
| HEALTHY ECONOMY: | Local Economy, Resilient Economy, Clean Industry, Entrepreneurial Opportunities. |
Pre-event fact-finding activities will help you prepare for your lab experience. Pre-lab workshops and tours will increase your understanding of community sustainability and, therefore, optimize lab outcomes and actions. Keynote presentations and walk-about table talks will then help prepare you for the final planning session, during which you’ll create action-maps to drive specific sustainability efforts in your home, organization, or community.
And all this for just $349 (or much less if you’re a student or senior, or from a nonprofit or community group)!
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Here’s how you can become a ‘lab partner’…
- Share your story as a speaker or your expertise as a table talk expert. Apply here.
- Contribute information such as topic-specific web links, PDF documents, or a poster presentation.
- Showcase your expertise and successes as a theme or topic sponsor. Learn more here.
- Contribute registration subsidizes for people who can’t otherwise attend this life- and community-changing event! Sign up here.
