Vancouver Area Relocalisation Network

Welcome to Vancouver

Vancouver is a city of over two million people and Sustainability by Design predicts this to double in the next forty years. We are bounded in by the ocean and the mountains with only the Fraser Valley which is the source of our food. The City of Vancouver recently formed a Food Policy which was dedicated to creating a just and sustainable food supply. Vancouver has participated in a number of exercises in participatory democracy such as the Citizen's Assembly for electoral reform, and Wosk's Centre for Dialogue, the upcoming World Urban Forum and World Peace Forum. Between the red book and resist.ca there are hundreds of existing organizations already active in Vancouver. All of these factors create both challenges and opportunities.