Now completing its 10th year Vidar Foundation looks back on a series of very successful projects that have either been completed or are current. For a brief report on Vidar’s history and accomplishments, click here.To see Vidar’s Balance Sheet as at August 31,...
- by Ingrid Belenson In 1979, when Ernst Wilhelm Barkhoff, the founder of the GLS Bank in Bochum, Germany, introduced his audience in Toronto to a new way of working with money, e.g. community supported agriculture, loan and/or pledge communities in...
- by Alexandra-Barbara GuntherA farm of 155 acres (about 65 hectares) near Iron Bridge in northern Ontario is being offered for two purposes:- to form a land trust that would hold this farm for bio-dynamic agricultural use in perpetuity- to attract a bio-dynamic farmer to...
Dear Friends,With the kind help of France Beaucage and Mark McAlister I am transitioning into - and gaining familiarity with - the tasks of the Treasurer. I have also been getting familiar with the accounts and associated methods developed over the years. I am gaining...
Dear Friends,The summer draws gradually to a close. The out-breathing into the light and warmth, the inner and outer rejuvenation through the many gatherings, conferences and meetings gives renewed strength to turn to the main tasks belonging to our work. It would ...
Dear Friends,On our west coast, the waning days of summer are bringing a fresh clarity as fall approaches. The smoke-tinged hue of the August sky has given way to a lucid blue as we draw in from the expanse of summer and...
Chers amis,Ici sur la côte ouest les journées décroissantes de la fin de l'été apportent une clarté imprégnée de fraîcheur. Le ciel du mois d'août, tinté de fumée, a cédé la place à un bleu transparent maintenant que, après l'expansion vécue durant l'été, nous rentrons...
- by Doug WylieThe 10 organizations residing on Thornhill campus met on May 6, 2010 to explore how we might collaborate more. This was a meeting that had been talked about for years and it certainly felt long overdue. Thanks to Pina Corigliano...
Dear Friends,Not infrequently we hear that for many visitors and conference guests, the Goetheanum is "far away" when they are busy with their work and lives somewhere else in the field. Yet the Goetheanum is also very "present" and "real" when they are actually physically...
- by Michael RobozBorn: Rotterdam, June 6, 1917Died: Vancouver, April 28, 2010 Cora was born during the First World War in Rotterdam, Holland. During World War Two, she was a courier for the Dutch Resistance Movement. She moved to Vancouver, Canada in...