Leadership for Sustainability: Land and Community

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Permalink Reply by Peter Goldsbury on October 21, 2009 at 5:34am

Hi Tim and others,

You may be interested this story by Andree Mathieu from Montreal and others on a new "Belongings" website from Canada which also bridges community, environment and more.
http://appartenance-belonging.org/en/outlooks/context_and_belonging

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Collins on October 23, 2009 at 4:45pm

Peter,

Thank you for sharing the Mathieu piece. It covers intellectual ground similar to where I have been traveling. I hope to upload a paper I've been working on soon to share with you and others.

I am also glad to hear about the NZ experience. The effort to build leadership needs to happen all over the world locally, as well as glovally.

Tim

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Collins on October 23, 2009 at 4:49pm

Peter,

These websites are wonderful. Thank you for sharing. I wish more people in the US shared these values.

Tim

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Collins on November 3, 2009 at 8:57am

Folks, This is not the piece I've been working on, but it gives some perspective on building leadership for sustainability in schools, U.S. style: http://www.dailyyonder.com/speak-your-piece-longer-school-year-and-...

Tim

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Collins on March 11, 2010 at 10:12am

I have been playing with sustainability indicators for some time and offer these up for others to take a look at.

Attachments:

• Sustainable Land Use indicators - AESS 09.docx, 210 KB

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Permalink Reply by Peter Goldsbury on March 11, 2010 at 3:33pm

Hi Tim. I like the way you have identified the need for Individual, Communty and Organisational / Corporate responsibities as a systems thinking approach recognises that these and everything else are connected and inter-dependent. You might be interesed in a Public Biomimicry Awareness Learnning Quest in Auckland, Aotearoa NZ that we have underway next month; thanks to the commitment and action of a large numbr of individual volunteers, communities of interest, business and govenment parties. This I think also supports some of the intergenerational community practices you describe:

www.kaitiakitanga.net/biomimicry

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Collins on March 11, 2010 at 3:43pm

Hi, Peter.

Thanks for your comments. I look forward hearing about the results of the Biomimicry Awareness Learning Quest when they are available.

Peter Goldsbury said:

Hi Tim. I like the way you have identified the need for Individual, Communty and Organisational / Corporate responsibities as a systems thinking approach recognises that these and everything else are connected and inter-dependent. You might be interesed in a Public Biomimicry Awareness Learnning Quest in Auckland, Aotearoa NZ that we have underway next month; thanks to the commitment and action of a large numbr of individual volunteers, communities of interest, business and govenment parties. This I think also supports some of the intergenerational community practices you describe:

www.kaitiakitanga.net/biomimicry

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Permalink Reply by Janie Leask on June 3, 2010 at 4:09pm

I don't have answers at this point but would love to join in on the conversation. Our Alaska Native villages are in crisis mode what with the high cost of fuel, shortage of jobs and out-migration of young people. Let's connect!

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Permalink Reply by Peter Goldsbury on June 3, 2010 at 6:05pm

Hi Janie,

Your communities might resonate with the story of a small rural and mainly Maori community in New Zealand who lost their livelihood when the government stopped native milling in their forest 25 years ago www.tipuake.org.nz. and also some of the innovative things being done be a small group in Hokianga www.kaitiakitanga.net/others/hokianga . The journey is a radical one that takes immense courage and innovation. It requires time to reverse the decay and start regrowing the youth leadership that has come from a lost generation caused by their migration elsewhere in search of work - there is no magic silver bullet. It does not hurt to constantly remind ourselves of a quote by Rosabeth Kanter of Harvard Business School - "Instant success takes time"

Perhaps these communities can link to set up mutual support and learning networks. Please contact me by email if they need any help to make this happen.

Also when you get a chance make sure you see what has become in a few short months the highest grossing NZ movie ever "Boy". Read all about it and view the trailer at at http://www.boythemovie.co.nz/ and in particular read under "Cast" "Alameine" what the writer, filmmaker and actor Taika says he was wanting to acheive with it. This is all about celebrating life and resilence. You and people in the communities you talk about might also be encouraged by the spin off that has grown from it at http://www.crazyhorses.co.nz/

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Permalink Reply by Janie Leask on June 3, 2010 at 6:49pm

thanks Peter, I'll take a look at those links! It is heartbreaking, frustrating - all the emotions when you see indigenous people no longer being able to live in their homelands!

Peter Goldsbury said:

Hi Janie,

Your communities might resonate with the story of a small rural and mainly Maori community in New Zealand who lost their livelihood when the government stopped native milling in their forest 25 years ago www.tipuake.org.nz. and also some of the innovative things being done be a small group in Hokianga www.kaitiakitanga.net/others/hokianga . The journey is a radical one that takes immense courage and innovation. It requires time to reverse the decay and start regrowing the youth leadership that has come from a lost generation caused by their migration elsewhere in search of work - there is no magic silver bullet. It does not hurt to constantly remind ourselves of a quote by Rosabeth Kanter of Harvard Business School - "Instant success takes time"

Perhaps these communities can link to set up mutual support and learning networks. Please contact me by email if they need any help to make this happen.

Also when you get a chance make sure you see what has become in a few short months the highest grossing NZ movie ever "Boy". Read all about it and view the trailer at at http://www.boythemovie.co.nz/ and in particular read under "Cast" "Alameine" what the writer, filmmaker and actor Taika says he was wanting to acheive with it. This is all about celebrating life and resilence. You and people in the communities you talk about might also be encouraged by the spin off that has grown from it at http://www.crazyhorses.co.nz/

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Permalink Reply by Jackie Bergman on June 7, 2010 at 8:02am

Hi Tim!

My name is Jackie Bergman and I live in Stockholm, Sweden.

During thirty years I have been working as an environmentally driven project manager in the energy utility sector. My absoulutely outstanding leadership compass has been that all motivations come out of emotions and that there are only two basic ones, fear and love. Fear will cause separation to others and that we will not tell our truth. Love automatically brings affinity to others and curiousity to the truth of our selves and others. I claim that there are some truths that we dare not see and that therer are some separation to others that we support.

Good luck with your leadership leadership, Tim. We need it!

Kind regards
Jackie Bergman

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Collins on June 7, 2010 at 10:08am

Thanks to all for your recent contributions to this discussion.

I think we all know how complicated leadership for sustainability is, given the complexities of our world today.

If love is the answer, and, at some level, I realize it is, how do we make it so compelling that it not only affects our personal relationships, but also extends t the planet and all of its inhabitants - human, other animals, and plants, as well as our water air and soil?

Tim

Jackie Bergman said:

Hi Tim!

My name is Jackie Bergman and I live in Stockholm, Sweden.

During thirty years I have been working as an environmentally driven project manager in the energy utility sector. My absoulutely outstanding leadership compass has been that all motivations come out of emotions and that there are only two basic ones, fear and love. Fear will cause separation to others and that we will not tell our truth. Love automatically brings affinity to others and curiousity to the truth of our selves and others. I claim that there are some truths that we dare not see and that therer are some separation to others that we support.

Good luck with your leadership leadership, Tim. We need it!

Kind regards
Jackie Bergman

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