Archive
Axiom News Archive
Community Foundations of Canada to make belonging a major focus of its work for next 3 years
Tuesday October 6, 2015
Based on the findings of a report about belonging in Canada, the national network of Canada’s 191 community foundations, Community Foundations of Canada (CFC), has stated it will make belonging a major focus of its work for the next three years.
Small B.C. municipality leads way in signalling commitment to social purchasing; next stop, Vancouver
Wednesday September 30, 2015
What may seem like an unlikely municipality, Cumberland, B.C., has taken a leadership step forward in Canada’s social enterprise/innovation realm.
Alberta communities begin journey of discovery
Friday September 25, 2015
When 140 gigantic portraits of local residents were unfurled across the outside wall of a school last year, a shift began to occur in the village of Delburne, Alberta. As community members stopped to appreciate the portraits, the possibilities for new and deepened connections between them, new perspectives on each another and even new ways that they might work together began to come to life.
Thursday September 24, 2015
Imagine what a conversation can bring: the understanding that could be gained, the connections made, the strengthening of relationships that could develop when we take the time to inquire about the food we eat and where it comes from.
Playfulness and co-creating our community’s new narrative
Wednesday September 23, 2015
Co-creating our community’s new narrative should have some element of playfulness. That’s the energy that’s swirling after a number of Axiom News team members participated in some artful, fun and serious community gatherings this past week — and gamely tried a few new and playful things in the process.
Leaders in media, community building ask what they can give each other
Tuesday September 15, 2015
A bonding began to occur within a circle convened by Axiom News founder and CEO Peter Pula in a call last week. The intent of the gathering was to explore the possibilities in sparking a cross-community alliance for a local, living new narrative.
What's working for Eden Full: Cutting the noise, leaning on others, radical transparency
Thursday September 10, 2015
One of the challenges of working in the dynamic social entrepreneur culture is that of staying mission-centred. Twenty-three-year-old social entrepreneur Eden Full is all too aware of this.
New stories and tools to offer hope and ideas for creating thriving neighbourhoods
Thursday September 3, 2015
As generative media makers we love to receive and discover stories and tools that relate in some way to our deeper mission. This article illuminates some artifacts that have crossed our desks most recently and either energized us or made us curious or both. The tie that binds them all: the work and mission of strengthening neighbourhoods. Maybe one could think of this as a digital museum.
Residents enjoy local food, sample Dialogues' possibilities
Friday August 28, 2015
What happens when you bring together a cross section of the business community, political figures and local advocates and activists to discuss Peterborough, Ontario's Local Living Economy?
Site of infamous 2011 oil spill now a renewable energy waypoint
Friday August 21, 2015
On another brilliantly sunny day in the northern Alberta hamlet of Little Buffalo, history was being made earlier this week. The home to about 500 people was abuzz with a kind of activity not seen there before – the installation of a brand-new 20.8-kilowatt solar panel system.
Pages
News Archive
