{"id":5489,"date":"2024-09-25T13:25:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T16:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.centreforlocalprosperity.ca\/?page_id=5489"},"modified":"2024-10-28T22:12:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T01:12:11","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.centreforlocalprosperity.ca\/fr\/our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Notre histoire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-columns alignfull stk-block-columns stk-block stk-590096d stk-block-background stk--has-background-overlay\" data-block-id=\"590096d\"><style>.stk-590096d {background-color:var(--theme-palette-color-1, #1A5867) !important;background-image:url(https:\/\/dev.centreforlocalprosperity.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/waves-background.svg) !important;background-position:bottom center !important;background-repeat:no-repeat !important;background-size:90vw !important;padding-top:100px !important;padding-bottom:0px !important;margin-top:-60px !important;margin-bottom:120px !important;overflow:visible !important;}.stk-590096d:before{background-color:var(--theme-palette-color-1, #1A5867) !important;opacity:0.8 !important;}.stk-590096d .stk-container{overflow:visible !important;}.stk-590096d-column{--stk-column-gap:20px !important;row-gap:50px !important;}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px){.stk-590096d {margin-bottom:100px !important;}}@media screen and (max-width: 767px){.stk-590096d {background-size:1px !important;padding-bottom:100px !important;}}<\/style><div class=\"stk-row stk-inner-blocks stk-block-content stk-content-align stk-590096d-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-column stk-block-column stk-column stk-block stk-a592ea9\" data-v=\"4\" data-block-id=\"a592ea9\"><style>.stk-a592ea9-container{margin-top:0px !important;margin-right:0px !important;margin-bottom:0px !important;margin-left:0px !important;}.stk-a592ea9-inner-blocks{justify-content:center !important;}.stk-a592ea9 {padding-bottom:100px !important;}@media screen and (min-width: 768px){.stk-a592ea9 {flex:var(--stk-flex-grow, 1) 1 calc(60% - var(--stk-column-gap, 0px) * 1 \/ 2 ) !important;}}@media screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px){.stk-a592ea9 {flex:var(--stk-flex-grow, 1) 1 calc(60% - var(--stk-column-gap, 0px) * 1 \/ 2 ) !important;}}@media screen and (max-width: 767px){.stk-a592ea9 {padding-bottom:0px !important;}}<\/style><div class=\"stk-column-wrapper stk-block-column__content stk-container stk-a592ea9-container stk--no-background stk--no-padding\"><div class=\"stk--column-flex stk-block-content stk-inner-blocks stk-a592ea9-inner-blocks\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-heading stk-block-heading stk-block-heading--v2 stk-block stk-95f172e\" id=\"our-story\" data-block-id=\"95f172e\"><style>.stk-95f172e {margin-bottom:20px !important;}.stk-95f172e .stk-block-heading__text{font-size:100px !important;color:#ffffff !important;line-height:0.9em !important;text-transform:uppercase !important;}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px){.stk-95f172e .stk-block-heading__text{font-size:70px !important;}}<\/style><h1 class=\"stk-block-heading__text has-text-color has-text-align-center-mobile\">OUR story<\/h1><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-column stk-block-column stk-column stk-block stk-0f6ab1a\" data-v=\"4\" data-block-id=\"0f6ab1a\"><style>.stk-0f6ab1a-container{margin-top:0px !important;margin-right:0px !important;margin-bottom:0px !important;margin-left:0px !important;}@media screen and (min-width: 768px){.stk-0f6ab1a {flex:var(--stk-flex-grow, 1) 1 calc(40% - var(--stk-column-gap, 0px) * 1 \/ 2 ) !important;}}@media screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px){.stk-0f6ab1a {flex:var(--stk-flex-grow, 1) 1 calc(40% - var(--stk-column-gap, 0px) * 1 \/ 2 ) !important;}}<\/style><div class=\"stk-column-wrapper stk-block-column__content stk-container stk-0f6ab1a-container stk--no-background stk--no-padding\"><div class=\"stk-block-content stk-inner-blocks stk-0f6ab1a-inner-blocks\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Centre for Local Prosperity (CLP) began with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.localprosperity.ca\/\">Local Prosperity <\/a>conferences in 2015 and 2016, where we gathered folks in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia and Miramichi, New Brunswick to learn about how individuals, businesses, and communities can design and implement a practical blueprint for a prosperous future and healthy local economies \u2013 a future that is cooperative, compassionate, and sustainable long-term. Economies that provide meaningful and dignified work, respect and restore ecosystems, and strengthen local communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the face of rapid global change, new business models, tools, projects and policies are needed to assist local communities in the 21st century. Global financial and consumer markets, climate change, and a multitude of international trends have impacted the economic and cultural health of our communities. The past decade or more of evidence-based studies, practical local experimentation, and innovation point to two indisputable facts:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the higher the density of locally owned businesses in a community or region the higher the local job growth; and&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the higher the degree of localization, the higher the per capita income growth<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now a registered charity, CLP continues working to further inspire, educate, and catalyze new localization and local prosperity projects, studies, gatherings, and initiatives across Atlantic Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-spacer stk-block-spacer stk--no-padding stk-block stk-2f6021a\" data-block-id=\"2f6021a\"><style>.stk-2f6021a {height:100px !important;}<\/style><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-995f960e wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-heading stk-block-heading stk-block-heading--v2 stk-block stk-95139c8\" id=\"our-mission\" data-block-id=\"95139c8\"><style>.stk-95139c8 .stk-block-heading__text{font-size:80px !important;}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px){.stk-95139c8 .stk-block-heading__text{font-size:50px !important;}}<\/style><h2 class=\"stk-block-heading__text\">our mission<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">We work to <strong>empower<\/strong> rural Atlantic Canadian communities to strengthen their <strong>local agency<\/strong> for the future, by <strong>informing<\/strong>, building <strong>connections<\/strong>, creating pathways, and <strong>catalyzing<\/strong> new initiatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-heading stk-block-heading stk-block-heading--v2 stk-block stk-3bff7d9\" id=\"our-vision\" data-block-id=\"3bff7d9\"><style>.stk-3bff7d9 .stk-block-heading__text{font-size:80px !important;}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px){.stk-3bff7d9 .stk-block-heading__text{font-size:50px !important;}}<\/style><h2 class=\"stk-block-heading__text\">our Vision<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">We envision <strong>engaged<\/strong>, <strong>regenerative<\/strong> rural Atlantic Canadian communities, where everyone feels <strong>empowered<\/strong> to make meaningful change, and has <strong>equitable<\/strong> access to the knowledge, skills, and resources to do so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-spacer stk-block-spacer stk--no-padding stk-block stk-d90579f\" data-block-id=\"d90579f\"><style>.stk-d90579f {height:100px !important;}<\/style><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-palette-color-8-color has-palette-color-1-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color 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src=\"https:&#x2f;&#x2f;&#100;ev&#x2e;&#x63;&#101;nt&#x72;&#x65;&#102;or&#x6c;&#x6f;&#x63;alp&#x72;&#x6f;&#115;pe&#x72;&#x69;&#116;y.&#x63;&#x61;&#47;wp&#x2d;&#x63;&#x6f;&#110;te&#x6e;&#x74;&#47;up&#x6c;&#x6f;&#97;ds&#x2f;&#x32;&#48;24&#x2f;&#x30;&#x39;&#47;CL&#x50;&#x2d;&#82;ec&#x6f;&#x6e;&#110;ec&#x74;&#x40;&#x32;x.&#x70;&#x6e;&#x67;\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5873\" style=\"width:100px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0\"><span style=\"color: var(--theme-palette-color-10, #3c8f6b);\" class=\"stk-highlight\">Reconnect<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-61c7441a wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have hard conversations about big problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen to underrepresented voices, especially indigenous and First Nations voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reconnect to local organizations. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-column stk-block-column stk-column stk-block stk-e7831f5\" data-v=\"4\" data-block-id=\"e7831f5\"><div class=\"stk-column-wrapper stk-block-column__content stk-container stk-e7831f5-container stk--no-background stk--no-padding\"><div class=\"stk-block-content stk-inner-blocks stk-e7831f5-inner-blocks\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"165\" height=\"155\" src=\"https:\/&#47;&#x64;&#x65;v.&#99;&#x65;&#x6e;tr&#101;&#x66;&#x6f;rl&#x6f;&#x63;&#x61;l&#112;&#x72;&#x6f;sp&#101;&#x72;&#x69;ty&#46;&#x63;&#x61;\/w&#x70;&#x2d;&#x63;o&#110;&#x74;&#x65;nt&#47;&#x75;&#x70;lo&#97;&#x64;&#x73;\/2&#48;&#x32;&#x34;\/0&#x39;&#x2f;CL&#80;&#x2d;&#x52;el&#111;&#x63;&#x61;li&#122;&#x65;&#x40;2x&#x2e;&#x70;ng\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5874\" style=\"width:100px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0\"><span style=\"color: var(--theme-palette-color-5, #aaebfb);\" class=\"stk-highlight\">Relocalize<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-61c7441a wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Craft a new narrative that invites a balance between a culture of economic development and the preservation and restoration of natural systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Work towards a localized economy &#8211; an economy that is scaled for the place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-column stk-block-column stk-column stk-block stk-6624ca8\" data-v=\"4\" data-block-id=\"6624ca8\"><div class=\"stk-column-wrapper stk-block-column__content stk-container stk-6624ca8-container 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My math skills lead me to conclude that any \u201cnew society\u201d will contain a mix of those who care and some who don\u2019t \u2013 those that cooperate successfully, and those who are inexplicable driven by a competitive spirit that runs deep; those born just in the nick of time, and those born at the wrong time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A municipal council is entrusted to design and fully express an organizational structure, a form of debate, that chips away (slowly it always seems) at all these differences. Over time, a community begins to unveil itself and its economy (often times these are one and the same) and a morality that was inherently there all the time: a cultural community sculpted from local stones that have been lying around for a long time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writer Wallace Stegner once wrote, \u201cCulture is a pyramid to which all of us brings a stone.\u201d And to be fully transparent he also penned, \u201cIt\u2019s easier to die than to move \u2026 at least for the Other Side you don\u2019t need trunks.\u201d&nbsp; &nbsp; The end product of my point of view is, of course, that we have little idea of what a community\u2019s future will look like.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visionaries are by their very nature and by necessity not good at detail. Darn it. A better sense of the future is most always to be found very close to the ground \u2013 in the weeds. Or it is found in some other place, some other system, some other economy and brought home, in part or in whole, to roost.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is the latter that fascinates me the most (and is at the core of Centre for Local Prosperity):<strong> creating a safe place for a conversation between different individuals and their ideas and experiences.<\/strong> A resilient community welcomes imported ideas. Then the hard work begins. A community must find the resources, energy, political system, to reshape \u2018imported ideas\u2019 to a scale and a \u201crightness\u201d that fits the place. And with all this said, we would be well suited to acknowledge another snippet from Stegner, \u201cCivilizations grow and change and decline, they are not remade.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A short documentary, Not Beyond Hope, has been produced on Gregory\u2019s experiences over 8 years as Councillor for District 5 in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, and his views on local governance in our climate-altered times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Not Beyond Hope\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HO-xXb39CPI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Not Beyond Hope&#8221; A documentary about Gregory Heming and his experiences over 8 years as Councillor for District 5 in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">a note.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">History demonstrates that vision without enlightened action is destined to lie fallow. Our hope is to discover an older grace and intelligence that binds us together in ways we could never have imagined. 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