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Ray Fung

CHRONICLE OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE INNOVATION: “You can have a succession of changes. At the end you want to sustain miserable leftovers. We adjust our baseline. And the question is, why do people accept this? Well, because they don’t know that it was different,” stated UBC’s Daniel Pauly, a legendary global fisheries scientist, when he coined the term Shifting Baseline Syndrome in 1995 (1st installment of a preview series)

September 18, 2024


Launched in 1994, the Georgia Basin Initiative was a call to action by the provincial government of the day. There was trouble in paradise. All communities knew they were under intense pressure and that we had to do something about it. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel. Just turn it. Solutions to complex problems require deep knowledge. The living legacy of the Georgia Basin Initiative is embedded and embodied in the successor Georgia Basin Inter-Regional Education Initiative (IREI). Three decades and counting is an amazing legacy. The IREI itself is in Year 13.

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SUMMIT AT THE BASTION IN NANAIMO: “Storytelling becomes a really important way of pointing out successes. Be the next success story,” stated Ray Fung in his closing reflections on what he heard

January 23, 2024


Ray Fung, a founding director of the Partnership, captured the mood of the summit with this summation: “The Partnership is seen as a resource that is stable, that is there, and that people can draw upon. I liked the comment that THIS IS A MOVEMENT. I find that is really inspiring to not see ourselves just as a network. We leave the summit inspired to figure out how the FORM of the Partnership will follow the FUNCTION. We can learn things from expanding our perspective. Part of that holistic approach includes the SPIRITUAL as well as the physical connection to the land.”

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GEORGIA BASIN INTER-REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE: “Succession within the Partnership for Water Sustainability legal entity is an intergenerational commitment. The 70-yr-olds pass the baton to the 60-yr-olds… who in turn groom the 50-yr-olds…and so on and so on and so on,” stated Kim Stephens at the Summit at the Bastion in Nanaimo (October 2023)

January 23, 2024


“Growing a network breaks all the rules of conventional thinking. It is the antithesis of building an organization that has staff. Instead, the network aligns individuals and organizations to deliver results across organizational boundaries. However, a network does require a nucleus for legal and organizational continuity,” stated Kim Stephens. “One ambassador described the Summit at the Bastion in Nanaimo as a turning point in our convening for action story. In fact, it will be the springboard to creating a future which so many of us desire, one which coalesces around a shared vision for Water Reconciliation.”

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