Gaining Ground Summit, Victoria BC
Sustainability is moving mainstream.
Its issues, challenges and imperatives are now understood to touch our lives in every way. Sometime has become right now because of growing concern about carbon emissions and climate change, and numerous other systemic challenges to urban and regional management... www.gaininggroundsummit.com
The FootHills has attended the Gaining Ground Summit for the past three years. Check out the video clips form this years amazing conference on sustainability. Kindly supplied by Blip.tv and Starycatcher.ca (click here to view)
Dr. William Marsh Interview
Dr.Will Marsh, a celebrated UBC scholar and author of ‘Landscape Planning Environmental Applications’ and a director of UBC’s Small Towns Initiative, was heavily involved in the very early stages of the land use planning around the Lantzville Foothills.
1. What is your background and how did you become involved in The Foothills?
I'm a professor of landscape architecture at UBC and professor emeritas of resource science from the University of Michigan. I have been involved with land planning, landscape design, and environmental management for more than 30 years as a teacher, consultant, and writer.... (click here for full version)
Ontario purchaser excited about green
Lantzville Foothills development
LANTZVILLE, BC – Recently retired Ontario native Joanne MacIntosh is among the first property purchasers at Lantzville Foothills, a Master Planned community 1,800 acres of highlands, just north of Nanaimo.
“When I first saw the panoramic views of Georgia Strait and the Coast Mountains, I fell in love with everything,” (click for full story)
