Solutions Agenda Videos

As Changing the Conversation progresses, this site will contain features that will enable you to upload videos and your own creative works. In the meantime, we encourage you to explore the videos produced by Community Research Connections as a complement to the Solutions Agenda e-Dialogues, and provide questions, comments and links to other related videos and projects by clicking 'Add new comment' at the bottom of the page.

 

Future of Work

Created through a partnership between the Community Research Connections program and students of Royal Roads University's Professional Communications program, this video explores community revitalization and aims to stimulate thinking on what contributes to thriving, sustainable communities.


Waste

Created through a partnership between the Community Research Connections program and students of Royal Roads University's Professional Communications program, this video is an illustration of food wastage in Canada and aims spurring thinking on how we can better use food resources..


Rural Revitalization

Created through a partnership between the Community Research Connections program and students of Royal Roads University's Professional Communications program, this video explores community revitalization and aims to stimulate thinking on what contributes to thriving, sustainable communities.


Mental Health

Created through a partnership between the Community Research Connections program and students of Royal Roads University's Professional Communications program, this video was designed as an evocative expression of mental health and community well-being.



Cooperatives
 

This animation conveys the issues that arise from 'the tragedy of the commons' (Hardin, 1968), a situation of resource depletion and/or pollution generation through people acting in their own self-interest around a common good (i.e., the environment). The animation then shows that these issues of resource depletion and adapting to new environmental conditions can be addressed through cooperative solutions.


Multi-functional Spaces 

Created through a partnership between the Community Research Connections program and students of Royal Roads University's Professional Communications program, this video explores the roles of multi-functional spaces in communities, specifically by 'unpackaging' the multiple functions of urban community gardens. Multi-functional spaces integrate multiple uses or functions in overlapping time and space. They contribute to economies of scale through sharing of resources, i.e., physical infrastructure, and provide access to diverse uses in one place, thus contributing to a community's vitality.



Energy

Created through partnership between Community Research Connections (crcresearch.org) and the University of Alberta, this animation explores the relationship between carbon footprints and income. Specifically, the video shares outcomes and ideas from research conducted by Kennedy, Krahn, and Krogman (2013, Egregious Emitters: Disproportionality in Household Carbon Footprints) examining this relationship in the context of individuals and households of Alberta. The video concludes with discussion on how individuals and communities can reduce carbon footprints (approached through a systems perspective) based on the research.


Food Security 

Created through a partnership between the Community Research Connections program and students of Royal Roads University's Professional Communications program, this video contrasts small-scale food systems to large-scale food systems. Local, smaller scale food systems provide benefit in the manner that they promote food security and local employment, which contributes to community resilient to exogenous shocks. However, the flip side of the coin prompts us to consider the role large-scale food systems have in attempting to meet the nutritional requirements of a growing global population. The World Food Summit of 1996 defines food security as existent "when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life". Thus, the question of scale emerges for food when we consider our growing global population, how do we feed 7 billion people in a sustainable way?