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Serpil Oppermann

    HISTORY OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: “One of the great failures of my generation is that we did not teach the next generation about world history. They take the world as it is right now for granted,” stated Thomas Friedman, legendary foreign affairs commentator


    In British Columbia, the success of the waterbucket.ca website for the past 20 years is that it records history in the making while providing a platform for individuals and groups to share their success stories. Otherwise, with the passage of time, people either forget about or never knew what previous generations were trying to do and why. A recent observation by Thomas Friedman is a reminder of the importance, relevance and power of storytelling. “It has been a real failure of education to bring along generations X, Y and Z to appreciate what is being lost right now.”

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    STORYTELLING PLATFORM FOR ECOSYSTEM-BASED APPROACH TO LAND AND WATER USE: “Success stories on waterbucket.ca profile and validate those who do good work in the spirit of Living Water Smart,” stated Mike Tanner, founding chair of the intergovernmental waterbucket.ca partnership


    “In 2004, we brought together an intergovernmental partnership to fund development of the waterbucket.ca website. Launched 12 months later in 2005, waterbucket.ca has matured into a legacy resource. It has become the place where people go to look for information on water in BC. It is a powerful communication platform because we provide an independent voice for peer-based learning. We are getting the stories of the Living Water Smart champions out there. When people say I saw it on waterbucket.ca, that is our ultimate measure and testament of success,” stated Mike Tanner.

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    FUSION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND NATURAL INTELLIGENCE: “Engineers do not understand nature because they were not taught it. And that brings us to why there is the need for Blue Ecology and interweaving other ways of thinking so that we can fuse AI, artificial intelligence, and natural intelligence, aka NI,” stated Michael Blackstock, independent Indigenous scholar and co-founder of the Blue Ecology Institute


    “There is untapped intelligence out there in nature. It is on our doorstep but we are tapping it even less because we are so focused on Artificial Intelligence,” says Michael Blackstock. “There is this vast amount of wisdom out there that Indigenous peoples have seen forever…and that is Natural Intelligence. Avoid getting caught up in only looking to AI to solve your problems. The balance principle is central to Natural Intelligence and Blue Ecology. It calls for a narrative shift towards healing and giving back to the environment.”

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