Podcasts about univercity

In this episode of The Whistler Podcast, Mayor Jack Crompton explores Whistler's housing challenges with Dale Mikkelsen, a long-time Whistlerite who joined the municipality in 2023 as General Manager of Whistler's Climate Action Planning and Development Services Division.Before his current role at RMOW, Mikkelsen was the Director of Development and Chief Operating Officer for Simon Fraser University's sustainable community model, UniverCity, sat on the Whistler Advisory Design Panel, the Whistler Housing Authority board, and was the president of WORCA. Mickelson's insights are grounded in a passion for community and sustainability.This episode explores rising land and construction costs layered with the challenges of natural and legislative constraints. How can we strike a balance by increasing density within these limits while preserving the spirit of our local spaces?Join us as we unravel the complexities, possibilities, and future of housing in Whistler.

An innovative program at UW-Madison is connecting communities throughout Wisconsin to education, outreach, technical assistance and research to help local governments solve challenges and improve livability and wellbeing. UniverCity Alliance, […]

The UniverCity alliance is a program that marshals the research capacity of UW-Madison students in service of the unique needs of cities, counties, villages, townships and others across the state of Wisconsin. The Alliance has helped some communities learn how government bodies can operate more efficiently, and others determine how to address needs like childcare […]

01 - Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow - INDUSTRY BABY (Jono Toscano Bootleg) 02 - David Guetta vs Reece Low - Memories (Beama x Artomik Mashup) 03 - Joel Fletcher, Savage x BSW - YAAY Tromba (Jackwell Mashup) 04 - Ava Max - Kings & Queens (Ricky Pearson Bootleg) 05 - David Guetta - Play Hard (Jackwell & Szecsei Festival Edit) 06 - Will.I.Am feat Britney Spears x TAZI & WILLØ - Scream & Shout x Techno Music (WILLØ Mashup) 07 - Justice Crew - Everybody (Dazzle Bootleg) 08 - GAYLE x Blackbear - ABCDEFU x Hot Girl Bummer (Ricky Pearson TikTok Edit) 09 - Skrillex & Habstrakt - Chicken Soup (Eric Sidey's Quick Edit) 10 - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us (Radio Edit) 11 - T. Danny - Megmondtam (Jauri Remix) 12 - David Guetta feat Chris Willis - Love Is Mama (Jackwell & Szecsei Festival Edit) 13 - ALEE - Nincsen Gond (Jackwell & Szecsei Remix) 14 - Showtek vs The Undergog Project - Summer Booyah Hands Up (Eryk Gee Mashup) 15 - Hardwell & Maddix - Bella Ciao (Talking Body) (Eryk Gee & Andrej Edit) 16 - Diplo & GTA - Boy Oh Boy (Eryk Gee & Camps Edit) 17 - Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike vs Tujamo & Felguk x Dillon Francis & DJ Snake - Get NOVA Low (Johnes Edit) 18 - Tiesto & Sevenn - BOOM (Jackwell & Szecsei Bootleg) 19 - Eminem - Lose Yourself (The Fallen King Edit) 20 - ABBA - Gimme Gimme Gimme (Colin Hennerz Bootleg) 21 - Saby Davis x Eiffel 65 - Return Of The Blue (Jackwell & Szecsei Mashup) 22 - Tiesto - The Business (Eryk Gee Edit) 23 - Shouse - Won't Forget You (Jackwell Bootleg 2.0) 24 - Cascada - Evacuate The Dancefloor (HEY SIRI x Jaxson Watson Bootleg) 25 - Jason Derulo - Take You Dancing (TAZI Bootleg) 26 - David Guetta & Morten feat Lanie Gardner - Dreams (Mastered Intro Version) 27 - Papa Roach x Jack James - Last Resort x Echo (DANČI Mashup) 28 - Masked Wolf - Astronaut In The Ocean (Jackwell Bootleg) 29 - Bob Sinclar feat Steve Edwards - World, Hold On (Children Of The Sky) (Rory Loder Remix) 30 - Endor x Zombie Nation - Pump It Up Kernkraft (SOUNDCHECK Mash Up) 31 - Paffendorf - Where Are You (TAZI Quick Edit) 32 - Eurythmics x Dannic - Sweet Baila Dreams (Shameless Mash) 33 - Azealia Banks - 212 (DEVIJFAIR X HEY SIRI Edit) 34 - Lost Frequencies - Where Are You Now (Kevin Kitchen Bootleg) 35 - Ed Sheeran vs Supermode - Bad Habits Tell Me Why (Eryk Gee Bootleg) 36 - Becky Hill & Topic - My Heart Goes (La Di Da) (Jono Toscano & Eryk Gee Bootleg) 37 - David Guetta feat Sia - Titanium (Jackwell & Szecsei Intro Edit) 38 - Farruko & Deniz Koyu - Pepas Tung (Rudeejay & Da Brozz Mash-Boot) 39 - Sean Paul vs HPI - Temperature x Senseless (Lachie Le Grand & WILLØ Mashup) 40 - LMFAO x Knife Party x Timmy Trumpet - Party Rock Anthem x LRAD x Hipsta (DANČI Mashup) 41 - Bingo Players - Rattle x Nightcrawler (Press Play x Bread Gang x Lachie Le Grand Mashup) 42 - Shouse - Love Tonight (Jackwell Bootleg) 43 - Goodboys - Bongo Cha Cha Cha (Czaga Edit) 44 - Gala - Freed from Desire (Orkestrated Re-Rub) 45 - Armand Van Helden x Matroda - You Don't Know Me (Zack Dean Edit) 46 - Benny Benassi - Bams Satisfaction (ANASTOVSKII Edit) 47 - Bingo Players - Devotion (Jackwell Edit) 48 - Flo Rida - Low (Jackwell Edit) 49 - Offer Nissim x MR.BLACK - Mucho Bien (Jackwell Bootleg) 50 - Martin Books - Liquid (Jackwell Szecsei Edit)

He has over thirty years of lending his voice to the community in a vast array of careers. Tyree Byndom has done everything from host a radio show for over two decades to being a Founder of Urban UniverCity and Co-Founder of Black Demographics. He's even won multiple awards for his service to his community, including a key to the city. What brings all his varied experiences together is his commitment to lead people to fulfill on their potential, to find the path toward their destiny. Favorite movie: The Matrix. Favorite words: "I'm Your Huckleberry" from the movie Tombstone. Tyree's Links: TyreeByndom; Black Demographics; LinkedIn; Instagram; Facebook. Instagram @365brothers Are you our next guest? - Let's talk. Support us!   365 Brothers on Patreon.  ***Remember to leave a review*** Check out Alitu for more ease editing, polishing and publishing your podcast. About this podcast: In each episode, a Brother reflects on his life; explores the experience of being a Black man in America; shares his interactions with law enforcement; and answers the signature question "If America was a woman, what would you say to her? You won't find a collection of conversations with Black men like this anywhere else. Hear their wisdom. Be inspired. Host, Rahbin Shyne, is an author, educator, creative and avid half-marathon walker. https://www.linkedin.com/in/365brothers/ Special thanks to our earliest and consistent supporters, Sonji Walker, Abigail Gonzalez, William C. Hamilton, Jr. and Shedrick Sanders!!!

Today on Art Seeker Stories podcast, I have an Art 2 HeArt with Éadaoin Glynn, a self-taught abstract artist from Cork, Southern Ireland. Éadaoin's creative journey began with literature and acting. At the age of 17 she tossed a coin, would she go to Univercity, or Art college -Uni won. Ah after an epic 3 hour chat I decided to split it in two for a double whammy episode, so here we have part 1. In this episode we chat about the artist journey as a rollercoaster of highs and lows making the art and putting it out. We talk about mindset and manifestation and the act of giving. We also compare notes on our experiences of TV.Éadaoin also tells us about her fundraising. As this episode is released Éadaoin has raised over a terrific 23,000 Euro for the Ukraine with all profits of her Navigator print  donated to the Red Cross and UNICEF to support Ukrainian families.Éadaoin's book recommendation:The Artist Way by Julia Cameron Part 2 of this conversation continues on Friday, a couple of day's time so do tune in to catch the rest of our conversation.Meanwhile  you can find out more about Éadaoin here:Instagram: @eadaoinglynnWebsite www.eadaoinglynn.comTo Buy the 'Navigator' print with all proceeds going to help Ukraine, buy here.

In this episode of the UFF-UCF Podcast I spoke with Professor Davarian L. Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut. He recently published the book In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Citieswith Bold Type Books. We spoke about the impact of how local universities expand into downtown centers and how universities have transformed into what he has termed a UniverCity. Please join us for this important conversation.

Better places, together. Two guests joined the podcast to talk about the UniverCity Year partnership between the Village of Waunakee, WI, the Ho-Chunk Nation, and students from the University of Wisconsin. Todd Schmidt is the Village Manager of Waunakee and Bill Quackenbush is the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Ho-Chunk Nation. They shared how the partnership came about and what the organizations worked on together. Host: Lauren Palmer

Plans are underway for return to classroom learning in September at UVic and other post secondary institutions. What has the pandemic changed about education priorities and processes?Find out in this Chamber Chat conversation between UVic President and Vice Chancellor Dr Kevin Hall and Chamber CEO Bruce Williams.

We are experiencing a global migration and refugees crisis with nearly 71 million people who have fled their homes worldwide, the highest number since World War II. In this episode, we talk about the crisis and what can be done about it with Dr. Diya Abdo, founder of Every Campus a Refuge, Dr. Jamie Williams, associate director of JMU's Community Service-Learning, and Nadiya Khaydari, a junior at JMU majoring in Political Science and Economics and a Senator in the Student Government Association. See the show notes with links mentioned in this episode at https://j.mu/news/civic/2020/05-21-democracy-matters-episode-25.shtml

I meet up with my past TRU instructor David Carter to catch up since he is one of my oldest contacts I have in Kamloops. We chat about all sorts of things from a rather futurist perspective of how technology will mess with our sense of place.

“You don’t hold referendums in small communities on a case-by-case basis—you do what you were elected to do, and make difficult decisions for the greater good.”For anyone following politics in Metro Vancouver these days, this is become the sentiment of some in the planning profession. It’s a message about (and even directed towards, even if not in so many words) the many new, inexperienced members of council in city halls across the region proposing, and making decisions about, the very real housing and development challenges in all of our backyards.It’s also quite possibly parting shots from the Baby Boomer professional class that, by some measures, could be implicated as much of the source of our current housing and transportation problems in the first place. But not Chuck Brook and Gordon Harris — these are the guys walking the talk.Brook, former heritage planner in Winnipeg, and then senior development planner for the City of Vancouver during the tail-end of the Ray Spaxman era, is an ardent supporter of what’s often called “infill projects” — the re-development and, often more efficient, use of existing land in an urban environment, for greater density and mixed use. Brook himself is notorious for the relentless pursuit of greater FSR; his career is marked by consistent efforts to increase the amount of liveable floor space that can be developed on a piece of land, relative to that overall footprint. When you think of changing the scope and character of a neighbourhood to accommodate more people, this is your man.Harris is President and CEO of SFU Community Trust, which oversees UniverCity, the award-winning sustainable community next to the Burnaby Mountain campus. It’s just one of the many projects—some global in nature, many familiar to residents of Metro Vancouver as part of daily life—for which his team has provided planning, market analysis and strategic development consulting work, as part of a similarly persistent approach to sustainable urban development.They’ve both also contributed to their local communities in countless other ways, and they’re almost ready to move along. But not before they spend the better part of the next decade or two trying to solve the now classic problem: who’s going to be living in this place in 2030? In 2050? What will they need? How do we build that society today, in such a way that, beyond not exacerbating current problems, we might actually mitigate or (in some way) resolve some of the very, very bad problems likely coming our way?And does incrementalism mean changing the what we develop, or the way we develop it?In this episode, Gord gets Brook and Harris to unwrap “the pill we have to swallow”, with some pointed words for the District of North Vancouver.**NOTE: Audio quality improves at 13mins** Read more »

Faced with tuition caps and declining government grants, public colleges and universities are becoming more entrepreneurial and seeking alternative revenue streams, often by selling off surplus campus lands to developers, or leasing campus space for retail or residential development. Simon Fraser University, built in a conservation area atop Burnaby Mountain just a 30-minute drive from downtown Vancouver, took its unique geographic opportunity and turned it into an exercise in city-building, literally “moving mountains” to establish a complete, walkable and almost self-sufficient town adjacent to its campus. In previous visits to campus, we learned about SFU’s community engagement strategy (https://youtu.be/EGWvfBqJEGs ) and the many ways in which the University uses its campuses in Vancouver, Surrey and Burnaby to build communities (https://youtu.be/dujezn6_afg ). This week, Ken Steele talks with SFU president Andrew Petter, and SFU Community Trust CEO Gordon Harris, about “UniverCity,” a development that is creating affordable housing for 10,000 people, adding two dozen shops and services for the campus community, generating a $90-million endowment for the institution, and exploring new frontiers in environmental and economic sustainability. Built “in splendid isolation” atop Burnaby Mountain in 1965, SFU wanted to engage with community – but in this case, had to build its own community from scratch. The University negotiated with the municipality to transfer its zoning density from the entire mountain to a much smaller 65-acre parcel adjacent to campus, and built a suburban community with urban density, largely on lands formerly occupied by student parking lots.  When fully complete, UniverCity will be home to almost 10,000 people, in apartment-style condos and stacked townhomes that meet the most ambitious environmental sustainability goals on the continent. UniverCity has won more than 30 national and international sustainability awards, including for its comprehensive stormwater management system. All developers aim to be 45% more energy efficient and 68% more water efficient than a typical code building, in order to quality for additional density. Many buildings have rainwater harvesting systems, solar arrays or geothermal heating. A new district energy system will use biomass to provide heat and hot water to two dozen buildings, in UniverCity and on the SFU campus. UniverCity’s $3 million Childcare Centre is the “greenest childcare on the planet,” and will soon have earned Living Building Challenge certification as a building that generates more energy than it uses, harvests more water than it uses, and is built from recycled and local materials. (It will be the first in Western Canada.) UniverCity also strives for economic sustainability, creating affordable housing to help SFU attract faculty, staff, students and their families. (About half of the residents are affiliated with the University, and almost half have young children.) SFU leased some of the land to developers like VanCity at a 30% discount, so that residential units could be sold at a 20% discount in perpetuity (such as the "Verdant" townhomes). Standalone “green mortgages” amortize the cost of environmental upgrades separately from the purchase price of units. As urban planner Harris explains, “if it isn’t economic, it isn’t sustainable.” UniverCity had to provide more than just housing to its residents: it needed to establish all the infrastructure of a small town, including restaurants, a grocery story, pharmacy, childcare centre, an elementary school, and soon a medical centre.  Residents also have access to campus facilities next door, including fitness and aquatic centres, art gallery, library and bookstore – and in return, the campus community can access shops and services in UniverCity. Someday it may also have an active seniors facility, where alumni and others could move in retirement. The community has added life and vitality to the SFU campus, as well as $15 million worth of new infrastructure, from a town square to the new heating facility and underground pipelines. Ultimately, the UniverCity endowment will support teaching and research at SFU “for the rest of time.” Thanks again to Andrew Petter, Gordon Harris, and the SFU videographers who made this episode possible. To learn more about UniverCity, visit http://univercity.ca, watch this beautiful documentary by France’s EchoLogis https://youtu.be/jDdSaGcQvQw, or read Gordon Harris’ new book, Building Community: Defining, Designing, Developing UniverCityhttps://living-future.org/product/building-community-book/  You can subscribe free to 10K by email or on any of a dozen channels: see http://eduvation.ca/subscribe/ for links. And if you would like to host a 10K Site Visit at your campus, see http://eduvation.ca/twk/site-visits/ for further information!

Faced with tuition caps and declining government grants, public colleges and universities are becoming more entrepreneurial and seeking alternative revenue streams, often by selling off surplus campus lands to developers, or leasing campus space for retail or residential development. Simon Fraser University, built in a conservation area atop Burnaby Mountain just a 30-minute drive from downtown Vancouver, took its unique geographic opportunity and turned it into an exercise in city-building, literally “moving mountains” to establish a complete, walkable and almost self-sufficient town adjacent to its campus. In previous visits to campus, we learned about SFU’s community engagement strategy (https://youtu.be/EGWvfBqJEGs ) and the many ways in which the University uses its campuses in Vancouver, Surrey and Burnaby to build communities (https://youtu.be/dujezn6_afg ). This week, Ken Steele talks with SFU president Andrew Petter, and SFU Community Trust CEO Gordon Harris, about “UniverCity,” a development that is creating affordable housing for 10,000 people, adding two dozen shops and services for the campus community, generating a $90-million endowment for the institution, and exploring new frontiers in environmental and economic sustainability. Built “in splendid isolation” atop Burnaby Mountain in 1965, SFU wanted to engage with community – but in this case, had to build its own community from scratch. The University negotiated with the municipality to transfer its zoning density from the entire mountain to a much smaller 65-acre parcel adjacent to campus, and built a suburban community with urban density, largely on lands formerly occupied by student parking lots.  When fully complete, UniverCity will be home to almost 10,000 people, in apartment-style condos and stacked townhomes that meet the most ambitious environmental sustainability goals on the continent. UniverCity has won more than 30 national and international sustainability awards, including for its comprehensive stormwater management system. All developers aim to be 45% more energy efficient and 68% more water efficient than a typical code building, in order to quality for additional density. Many buildings have rainwater harvesting systems, solar arrays or geothermal heating. A new district energy system will use biomass to provide heat and hot water to two dozen buildings, in UniverCity and on the SFU campus. UniverCity’s $3 million Childcare Centre is the “greenest childcare on the planet,” and will soon have earned Living Building Challenge certification as a building that generates more energy than it uses, harvests more water than it uses, and is built from recycled and local materials. (It will be the first in Western Canada.) UniverCity also strives for economic sustainability, creating affordable housing to help SFU attract faculty, staff, students and their families. (About half of the residents are affiliated with the University, and almost half have young children.) SFU leased some of the land to developers like VanCity at a 30% discount, so that residential units could be sold at a 20% discount in perpetuity (such as the "Verdant" townhomes). Standalone “green mortgages” amortize the cost of environmental upgrades separately from the purchase price of units. As urban planner Harris explains, “if it isn’t economic, it isn’t sustainable.” UniverCity had to provide more than just housing to its residents: it needed to establish all the infrastructure of a small town, including restaurants, a grocery story, pharmacy, childcare centre, an elementary school, and soon a medical centre.  Residents also have access to campus facilities next door, including fitness and aquatic centres, art gallery, library and bookstore – and in return, the campus community can access shops and services in UniverCity. Someday it may also have an active seniors facility, where alumni and others could move in retirement. The community has added life and vitality to the SFU campus, as well as $15 million worth of new infrastructure, from a town square to the new heating facility and underground pipelines. Ultimately, the UniverCity endowment will support teaching and research at SFU “for the rest of time.” Thanks again to Andrew Petter, Gordon Harris, and the SFU videographers who made this episode possible. To learn more about UniverCity, visit http://univercity.ca, watch this beautiful documentary by France’s EchoLogis https://youtu.be/jDdSaGcQvQw, or read Gordon Harris’ new book, Building Community: Defining, Designing, Developing UniverCityhttps://living-future.org/product/building-community-book/  You can subscribe free to 10K by email or on any of a dozen channels: see http://eduvation.ca/subscribe/ for links. And if you would like to host a 10K Site Visit at your campus, see http://eduvation.ca/twk/site-visits/ for further information!

Simon Fraser University is committed to community engagement, so much so that its campus master plan and infrastructure is focused on building communities, in Vancouver, Surrey, and on Burnaby Mountain. SFU is literally setting its vision in stone! Last week 10K looked at how SFU’s Engagement Strategy has been socialized across the institution, reinforcing efforts at community-based research, cultural engagement, public events and even April Fool’s videos. (ICYMI, check out “Embracing Engagement at SFU” - https://youtu.be/EGWvfBqJEGs ). In this episode, we look at SFU’s “concrete” commitment to engagement, manifested in its campus infrastructure: Science Plaza Although SFU has no Astronomy department, it has constructed the Trottier Observatory on its Burnaby Mountain campus. Several times a month, hundreds of people from the community gather for “Starry Nights” stargazing, and the Science Courtyard incorporates architectural elements to convey a love for science. Ken speaks with Howard Trottier, SFU Physics professor, and founder of the Starry Nights program. SFU Surrey SFU opened a major campus in suburban Surrey’s city centre, which is driving the development of a major metropolitan centre from scratch. The main building, designed by Bing Thom, brings together a university, a shopping centre, and an office tower in a mixed-use concept sometimes called “Vancouverism” – and that mixed-use concept is a good metaphor for SFU’s vision of the “Engaged University.” Ken speaks with SFU president Andrew Petter, and VP External Joanne Curry, who for 12 years led the development of the Surrey campus. Downtown Vancouver SFU also has the largest presence in downtown Vancouver, including the Segal Graduate School of Business, the RADIUS social innovation incubator, the Harbour Centre, and the Centre for Dialogue. Ken speaks with Shauna Sylvester, the director of the Centre for Dialogue, about the beautiful purpose-built facility and its unique Asia-Pacific Hall. SFU Woodsworth’s In the heart of Vancouver’s downtown eastside, SFU constructed a new School for Contemporary Arts in a former landmark, Woodsworth’s Department Store. The development was a vision of Michael Stevenson, former SFU president, to revitalize a troubled region of social and political tension, and built community relationships through music, culture and the arts. Ken speaks with Howard Jang, then the director of the SFU Woodsworth’s Cultural Unit, and Am Johal, the director of SFU’s VanCity Office of Community Engagement. SFU UniverCity The most remarkable example of SFU’s community-building is the 65-acre UniverCity development atop Burnaby Mountain, adjacent to its main campus. While the university had a land grant over much of the mountain, they asked the municipality to compress the density of that land grant to a much smaller area. The result is a small town that will ultimately be home to 10,000 people, and some of the world’s most sustainable architecture and community infrastructure. Ken speaks with Gordon Harris, CEO of the SFU Community Trust, which manages the UniverCity development. 10K will revisit SFU’s UniverCity project, the RADIUS incubator, the Science Plaza, the Centre for Dialogue and more in future episodes. To be sure you don’t miss them, please take a moment now to subscribe! http://eduvation.ca/subscribe/ And stay tuned for some bloopers at the end of this episode!

Simon Fraser University is committed to community engagement, so much so that its campus master plan and infrastructure is focused on building communities, in Vancouver, Surrey, and on Burnaby Mountain. SFU is literally setting its vision in stone! Last week 10K looked at how SFU’s Engagement Strategy has been socialized across the institution, reinforcing efforts at community-based research, cultural engagement, public events and even April Fool’s videos. (ICYMI, check out “Embracing Engagement at SFU” - https://youtu.be/EGWvfBqJEGs ). In this episode, we look at SFU’s “concrete” commitment to engagement, manifested in its campus infrastructure: Science Plaza Although SFU has no Astronomy department, it has constructed the Trottier Observatory on its Burnaby Mountain campus. Several times a month, hundreds of people from the community gather for “Starry Nights” stargazing, and the Science Courtyard incorporates architectural elements to convey a love for science. Ken speaks with Howard Trottier, SFU Physics professor, and founder of the Starry Nights program. SFU Surrey SFU opened a major campus in suburban Surrey’s city centre, which is driving the development of a major metropolitan centre from scratch. The main building, designed by Bing Thom, brings together a university, a shopping centre, and an office tower in a mixed-use concept sometimes called “Vancouverism” – and that mixed-use concept is a good metaphor for SFU’s vision of the “Engaged University.” Ken speaks with SFU president Andrew Petter, and VP External Joanne Curry, who for 12 years led the development of the Surrey campus. Downtown Vancouver SFU also has the largest presence in downtown Vancouver, including the Segal Graduate School of Business, the RADIUS social innovation incubator, the Harbour Centre, and the Centre for Dialogue. Ken speaks with Shauna Sylvester, the director of the Centre for Dialogue, about the beautiful purpose-built facility and its unique Asia-Pacific Hall. SFU Woodsworth’s In the heart of Vancouver’s downtown eastside, SFU constructed a new School for Contemporary Arts in a former landmark, Woodsworth’s Department Store. The development was a vision of Michael Stevenson, former SFU president, to revitalize a troubled region of social and political tension, and built community relationships through music, culture and the arts. Ken speaks with Howard Jang, then the director of the SFU Woodsworth’s Cultural Unit, and Am Johal, the director of SFU’s VanCity Office of Community Engagement. SFU UniverCity The most remarkable example of SFU’s community-building is the 65-acre UniverCity development atop Burnaby Mountain, adjacent to its main campus. While the university had a land grant over much of the mountain, they asked the municipality to compress the density of that land grant to a much smaller area. The result is a small town that will ultimately be home to 10,000 people, and some of the world’s most sustainable architecture and community infrastructure. Ken speaks with Gordon Harris, CEO of the SFU Community Trust, which manages the UniverCity development. 10K will revisit SFU’s UniverCity project, the RADIUS incubator, the Science Plaza, the Centre for Dialogue and more in future episodes. To be sure you don’t miss them, please take a moment now to subscribe! http://eduvation.ca/subscribe/ And stay tuned for some bloopers at the end of this episode!

Introducing the flagship song of Cool Univercity along with some announcements

This is the Pilot Episode of the Alpha Male Buddhist from Brooklyn Podcast- In this episode I will introduce the podcast, topics I will cover in the show. I will also give my insights into living a self realized life. No sugar coating, this is raw, unfiltered knowledge. I have my masters degree from the Univercity of hard knocks also known as the ghetto streets of Downtown Brooklyn New York (the Hood, the projects). I am a Puerto Rican or sholud I say, a New Yorican and I want to share my views on life, true fullfillment, and self realization. I Grew up in "so called" poverty on welfair, lost my Dad at 6 years old, and mom's struggeled to bring up the family as best she could. I must say the love of my mother was the key to my success, Today I live a good life with my own family and speak from a position of real life experence. In 1972 ( I was age 12) tv show aired called "Kung FU" starring David Carradine. One of the Monks on the show was named Master PO. The wisdom of Master Po awakened me to "knowledge of self" thus started my journey into Eastern wisdom. Just run a search in youtube for Kung Fu "Master Po" guarnteed this monk will blow your mind even today for sure. I then started reading Eastern philosophy at age 16 years old. No jugment, no snow flaking or safe spaces here, just truth, and love. I started listening to Podcast before there was such a thing as "podcast" I listened to Joe Rogan MP3 files on his website. Which became todays most popular podcast "the Joe Rogan Exp." I also listen to many more podcast... Hope you enjoy the show.  Namaste