The Story of the Penticton Forum: Smart Planning & Living Water Smart – Approaches & Tools for Doing Business Differently in BC
Forum Overview
The Penticton Forum was held at the Penticton Trade & Convention Centre as an adjunct to the 2009 Annual Conference of the BC Water & Waste Association (BCWWA) on April 29.
- The Forum was designed to be of educational value to elected representatives. It was especially relevant to municipal administrators, municipal engineers, and municipal planners; water resource and land use planners; and water conservation, green infrastructure and drainage practitioners. The Forum was also be of value to those in the conservation and stewardship sector.
- For an overview of the Agenda and the four modules that comprised the program, click on Lesson Plan – Draft Outline of What We Want to Achieve.
- A series of weekly stories that progressively connected the dots and foreshadowed what participants could expect in each module was published on Water Bucket and are listed below.
Downloadable Documents
Leading up to the Forum, a series of downloadable documents have been published on Water Bucket. These stories progressively describe the elements of the Forum program. Briefly:
- On March 6th: Story #1 titled Smart Planning & Living Water Smart: Approaches & Tools for Doing Business Differently in BC described the scope of each module in order to foreshadow what to expect.
- On March 13th: Story #2 titled Doing Business Differently – Convening for Action in the Georgia Basin elaborated on how a ‘regional team approach’ is being advanced on Vancouver Island and in Metro Vancouver to establish consistent expectations when making ‘green choices’.
- On March 20th: Story #3 titled Doing Business Differently – Convening for Action in the Okanagan explained what it means to have a clear vision, what is possible when the vision is shared, and how ‘convening for action’ is taking place in the Okanagan.
- On March 27th: Story #4 titled Creating Our Future: Sustainability by Design & The Natural City Vision foreshadowed the ‘book-end roles’ that Patrick Condon and Vic Derman will play in setting the context and providing a blueprint for action, respectively.
- On April 3rd: Story #5 titled Creating Our Future: Today’s Expectations are Tomorrow’s Standards for Living Water Smart provided an overview of the provincial policy framework that enables local governments to design their communities in harmony with water.
- On April 10th: Storey #6 titled on Town Hall Sharing: How Will Embracing the Living Water Smart Vision Help Your Community Do Business Differently?foreshadowed how audience interaction wouldl be achieved, and how we can build commitment and motivate British Columbians to want to change.
To Learn More:
For an overview of the Penticton Forum, click on The Story of the 2009 Penticton Forum: Convening for Action and Making Green Choices in British Columbia.
