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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Going Coastal Magazine, an online resource for Sunshine Coast information and contacts. We specialize in artists, events, tides amd food, but we won't limit ourselves ;) Send us an email at goingcoastal@telus.net if you have something you feel is noteworthy to locals of or visitors to British Columbia's Sunshine Coast!

GREENING THE LOCAL ECONOMY ONE CLICK AT A TIME
A new Sunshine Coast business launches this June

Reduce, reuse, recycle is a familiar motto reminding us to minimize our ecological footprint on the planet. Can the 3 R’s be applied to commerce? Can it show us how to keep our economy sustainable? If you replace the 3 R’s with 3 G’s then you get a new Sunshine Coast business and a possible answer. The business is called Gyos, an acronym for Get/Give/Grow Your Own Stuff. Gyos is an online community market that promotes locally used and hand crafted goods and services. From its philosophy to its practice, Gyos is an environmental, social, and buy-local business.

Local Ryan Logtenberg, an avid environmentalist, amateur economist, and computer nerd, along with his brother, has spent the last two years developing Gyos as tool to make communities most resilient and resourceful in hard economic times. “I love the Sunshine Coast”, says Ryan, “and I see its economic prosperity depending on two central things. One is the Sunshine Coast’s ability to bring in new business, the second is its ability to cycle money through the local economy as much as possible. If $20 cycles within a community 5 times through local transactions/buying locally, that’s $100 worth of prosperity”. Michael McLaughlin, Economic Development Coordinator of Gibsons and Area, is impressed by the Gyos concept particularly “its use of local resources for home construction initiatives. It is an example of local economics where local resources are used for local consumption, as opposed to importing,” says McLaughlin.

The Gyos site hosts a wide variety of products and services, such as books, clothes, event tickets, art, jobs, financing, real estate and more; and supports all types of commerce including buying, selling, trading, bartering, and donating. Gyos efficiently provides information but does not handle any transactions – erasing the middleman. Gyos is free and easy to use. The only ads that cost money to post are for real estate, but even these are affordable.

There is a special section of the website, that its owners are especially proud of. It is called the 5 Mile Diet. “The goal of the 5 Mile Diet”, says Ryan, “is to raise awareness about seasonal foods and then provide the tools the community needs to access them”. There is space to write about your produce, post photos, and also a map feature that allows you to pinpoint your location. “The Sunshine Coast has wonderful farms, avid gardeners, and overabundant fruit trees. If this food was bought, sold, traded, or donated amongst us, our community would benefit nutritionally, environmentally, and financially.” McLaughlin agrees: “The Gyos concept fits very well into regional food security”.

While the website is active and currently available for posting: www.gyos.ca, Gyos officially launches June 15th. Once up and running on the Sunshine Coast, the Gyos team is introducing it to surrounding communities, so that each small town and city is its own economic hub and can expand outward as needed.

For an interview with Ryan Logtenberg (Founder) or Nancy Roulston (Development Manager), please contact us at ryan@gyos.ca and nancy@gyos.ca respectively.


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The Immortal Beaver

All dirty jokes aside, the beaver is a Canadian symbol of a hard worker. It made for a fitting name for a line of de Havilland float-planes as although the vehicles themselves are over half a century old, they are still used all over the world as one of the most dependable bush planes ever built.

This documentary by Arwen Hunter of Gamut Productions tells more about the little plane that could, with testimonials from plane enthusiasts including Harrison Ford. Filming roamed from Victoria all over North America for the story.






Petals Also from this coastal production company is a story about women and the beauty that lies within... or below. Petals is a documentary about women, their self-esteem, and their vulvas. The title is an alternative to the vulgar names for this part of human anatomy, and it also hints at how beautiful they really are. Photographer and "sex-doctor" Nick Karras produced a series of photographs of vulvas which show how each woman is unique in ways they never thought of, and then compiled these into a book. The film, now showing in mid-November at the Swedish Film Festival, gives more insight into the book, it's material, and the fear society seems to have for this area.


Check out Petals the Movie Trailer and Check out Gamut Productions




The above Youtube video is a slideshow film put together by Duane Burnett from his huge collection of coastal pictures. On his home website and supplemental page on Flickr you can find over 5000 images of life on the Sunshine Coast.

We at Going Coastal plan on letting the world know about the Sunshine Coast and how fabulous it is thanks to the people and nature. Not only are we available online with articles, pictures, and information listings, but we also have a monthly print format distributed from Langdale through Powell River and into Lund. Email us if you'd like to request a copy by mail! goingcoastal@telus.net



COPYRIGHT
Articles and photographs appearing in the magazine and on the website are protected by copyright. Please request permission from goingcoastal@telus.net to use our images or stories.

ADVERTISING
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ARTICLES
Articles from the print version of Going Coastal are all archived online, and are updated from time to time so the information remains current.

MAP
We admit they aren't as good as anything done by AAA, but it will help to give the prospective traveller an idea of where to go. Some times a tourist might come to the Sunshine Coast, following a relative's directions to Granthams Landing, unfortunately ending up in Sechelt, when the destination was right next to the ferry after all. This map should help a little at least.

LINKS & INFO
Though we try to put as much information as possible on this web site, there are still other pages that do it far better. Links to those pages can gain you more specific regional information, such as tide tables or where to find a boat launch.


EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
There is a great deal going on on the Sunshine Coast, and although we may not be able to keep the information current at this point in time (working for the government, eBay, etc), you can still view our info to get an idea of just what might be happening at any one time. Event listings on the calendar are free - contact goingcoastal@telus.net with your information, and we will try to list it or make an article about it as soon as possible.

STUDIOS / GALLERIES
Artists abound on the Sunshine Coast, and although the galleries may be placed where they are easily seen, some of the studios are not so lucky. Many artists will allow art "buffs" to look through their studios and perhaps even commission works based on preliminary sketches that are up on a wall. This page lists their current (hopefully) contact information so travellers can set up appointments.

COASTAL MUSIC
The Sunshine Coast grows it's own music. It flows along many different lines, with rock bands and DJs playing at dances, and the jazz and blues artists taking part in their own festivals. Many musicians have CDs (or even tapes!) available for purchase. This page lists the artists, their current albums & prices, and how to contact them.

COASTAL AUTHORS
For those people that enjoy reading about the coast more than looking at a painting of it there are a selection of local writers working to fill them in. Their books can be bought directly from them, or if you are in the area you can probably also pick up some copies from the Writers Festival. Wide variety of styles and literary levels, there is an abundance to choose from.


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Notables This Month:


Sunshine Coast Arts Centre


Copper Sky Gallery


Special Mention:

Gibsons Rotary
Gibsons Rotary

Aspire Self Employment Program
Aspire Self Employment Program

Powell River Film Festival
Powell River Film Festival

SunLund RV Park
SunLund RV Park


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