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CSA SPEAKER BULLETIN SUSTAINABILITY
MEANINGFUL and local places: old buildings Seek out the signals of transformation
brought back to life; local energy in your local context. Focus on the
WORK: projects; transportation sharing; good, not just the new, and look for
cargo-bike delivery; de-paving car ways to enhance what’s emerging.
A recent Gallup poll revealed a parks for biodiversity planting; food Talk to change makers about the
worrying statistic: 85% of workers procurement and community kitchens; practical actions, however small, that
around the world are “not engaged place-based learning; off-site would enhance their activities.
in their work”. This means that a meetings; the use of local currencies.
company’s most important assets - its Transformative economic models, “Seek out the signals
people - are not motivated to create John adds, are set to amplify these of transformation
value for their employer. So how, in signals of change: Transition Towns,
practical terms, can a company create Peer-to-Peer, Platform Co-ops, in your local context
meaningful work for its people? John Bioregionalism and the Care Economy. and look for ways
believes the answer lies in connection The opportunities for meaningful work to enhance what’s
- connection with place, connection are many and varied. emerging.”
with communities, and connection
with nature. But what steps might you take to
get involved? For an answer, John’s
Drawing on a lifetime of travel in advice is to learn from biology. In
search of real-world alternatives nature, the health of an ecosystem lies
that work, John describes the in the vitality of interactions between
transformation of everyday activities in its component species. This lesson
ways that enhance the local economy can be applied to your company’s
innovation ecosystem, too.
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