About Local solutions Planning

A New Planning Context

“People want their homes and neighbourhoods, their workplaces and institutions to pollute less, use fewer resources, look nicer and feel safer. They want them to provide more opportunity for local work, better health and sense of community.

My aim, through Local Solutions, is to help people achieve these kinds of places – to enable them to think globally while acting locally.”

  • Honours degree in Urban and Regional Planning
  • Strong research and organizational skills
  • Special interest in retro-fitting existing communities for sustainability
  • Published writer and illustrator
  • Significant public speaking experience

Angela Evans combines over 20 years of varied public and private sector community planning experience with complementary skills in workshop facilitation, illustration, research, and neighbourhood dispute mediation.

A strong interest in environmentally appropriate community design and alternative sewage treatment methods led Angela to spend the better part of two years in Europe. She visited a Scandinavian housing co-ops, new towns, eco-villages, and permaculture farms, volunteered at the Centre for Alternative Technology, and worked with a UK Wildlife Trust and the Bristol Centre for Urban Studies.

Angela is a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners, the Victoria Values-Based Business Association and the Cascadia Green Building Council.