TNS-ICSP Update (Summer/Fall 2010)
October 24, 2010 at 05:51PM NOTES on TNS-Canada's 5-month-long, Integrated Community Sustainability Planning (ICSP) course that I am taking.
December 14, 2010. The course will conclude in mid-January. We recently completed two productive workshops in Toronto in October and December. The first workshop focused on illuminating the sustainability gap for key community systems and formulating strategies and initiatives to bridge the gap. The second focused on governance options for implementing the plan, monitoring progress, and leading change towards sustainability. The leadership component of the second workshop was presented by Bryan Smith, co-author of the recently published Necessary Revolution (Senge, et. al.; highly recommended). The focus was on applying an organizational learning framework to the sustainability challenge and associated methods for creating high-performance teams needed to do the "impossible" transformational work of sustainability--in two words, powerful and inspirational. As the final homework assignment, i will prepare a ICSP process plan on renewing the San Francisco Sustainability Plan for advances in sustainability over the past 12 years and the next-generation challenges of integrative approaches to community sustainability planning that are essential for meeting the urgent transformational challenges of sustainability success.
October 23, 2010. We're half way through time wise. We've completed the 3-hour e-learning course, an ABCD exercise, and 5 webinars covering their ICSP Guide. This week will be the first live 2-day workshop in Toronto, Wed/Thurs., 10-27/28, with approximately 15 sustainability practitioners from Canada (about 10) and the US (about 5). I will try to write a few posts covering work/the experience to date, and then do some semi-real-time posts from this week's workshop. Check back periodically, subscribe to this Sustainability Clips journal or the RSS feed. Cheers, scott
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