Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Mark Lakeman, Cyrus Molavi, Christina Nikolic February 22nd, 2017

This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com

February 22, 2017

The old saw says, "when every problem looks like a nail, all answers look like hammers." But when the problem is how people can live in rapidly and radically changing environments, it takes more than a hammer to build solutions. What it takes is insight and thinking outside the familiar, four-walls and a chimney pot picture of what makes our homes and communities work.

Mark Lakeman is a Portland, Oregon-based community activist, architect, and lead hand at Communitecture, an architectural firm with a difference. Communitecture says, "We design beautiful and sustainable places that bring people together in community...[w]ith an approach that explores new creative territories..."

Mark brought that creativity to Portland City Council in 2001 when dreaming up a design for the city's now World famous "place-based community," Dignity Village.

Sixteen years on, it's a model whose relevance and guiding principles has proven resilient and adaptable to a broader population of home seekers.

 

Mark Lakeman in the first half.

 

And; you don't need a street light to see Victoria is rapidly and, some would argue, radically changing. One community here is hoping it can prove a catalyst in changing the way Victorians navigate their way in, through, and around the city.

You've likely seen some of the effects of the Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition's efforts to make our berg better for bikes already. From promoting bike lanes and "sharrows", and the much touted "Biktoria" campaign, to lobbying for infrastructure projects like the Galloping Goose and Lochside Trails the GVCC "works with businesses and city stakeholders to create the conditions for safer, more inclusive cycling infrastructure across Greater Victoria." Cyrus Molavi, a Director on the board of the Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition joins us today.

 

Cyrus Molavi, pedaling for a more bike-friendly Victoria in the second half.

 

And; intrepid horticultural innovator and green business entrepreneur, Christina Nikolic will be here with Left Coast News and Events updates at the bottom of the hour.

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Wednesday, 1-2pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.ca.  He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/