Welcome to Sideworks. Do you need to work? Is your standard of living going down? Your wages stagnant? Trapped in a forty-hour a week job that demands much of you but does not pay you a living wage? Is your work disappearing, you been discarded, your job outsourced or off-shored? Did your safety net fray or your retirement evaporate in the market downturn? Is it maybe the system that is failing you, things aren’t trickling down to you in the “too big to fail” bailouts? If any of this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right spot. Sideworks is about work. The work we all have to do to survive in the world of money. Work is important to us, it’s primary, we’re working folk. Sideworks is built on the theory that there are better, more meaningful ways of doing our work. That if we looked at our work with a long term perspective, from the inside, the outside, the bright side, the dark side, the upside, the downside, every side and every angle there’d be some benefits to that. Sideworks is an attempt by those involved to work on our commitment to nature and conservation hands on. Our mission is, to together try and work the environmental vision into an economic and social vision. The Tranquille initiative is our attempt to do that.

The Sideworks plan for Tranquille in Kamloops, BC is a contingency plan. Sideworks doesn’t own the Tranquille property, BC Wilderness Tours does. They have their own plans for a Tranquille community. Times are difficult for development today though. The problem with any plans are the soft real estate market and the general downturn of the economy. There appears to be some structural problems with the economy that will be very difficult to fix. Too many jobs have been off-shored, there is too much debt both public and private and there are too many old people for too few young people to support. The boom seems to be going bust and the good economic times as we’ve known them might not be coming back any time soon. Sideworks is attempting to organize and lay down some plans that might help some people deal with today’s hard economic realities. We want to be ready to act should the opportunity arise to purchase the Tranquille property.