Crowdsourcing Sustainability

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Crowd Sourcing Sustainability

Refining our Curriculum Focus Areas

Sustainability Resources is working with community leaders and professionals from across Alberta to select and refine curriculum focus areas. We will then be recruiting Resource Associates to help develop resources to meet the needs of communities. Your input is critical to this process!!

Crowd Sourcing Sustainability Learning

Sustainability Resources Ltd. provides capacity building and knowledge development courses to municipalities and their stakeholders for community sustainability, water resource management, and municipal development. With an emphasis on advancing our ability to sustain the integrity of our ecological and community assets, we build and deliver educational experiences that enable policy development, programs and initiatives for water and sustainable community development.

2012 Alberta Program on Water Governance

Recommendations for full and half day professional experience-based learning seminars for community leaders & industry innovators:

Water Conservation & Management for Municipalities
Water for Life & land Use Framework
One Water - Integrated Water management
Managing Risk & Managing Water - An Interpretive Guide for Industry and Municipalities
Low Impact Development & Water Management Design Principles
Water Conservation for Industry & Corporate Responsibility
Science & Evidence Based Decision Making
Water Policy & Management in Western Canada

2012 Alberta Program for Sustainable Communities

Recommendations for full and half day professional experience-based learning seminars for community leaders & industry innovators:

Natural Capital Accounting & Community Development
Sustainability Plans & Implementation - Understanding Community Systems
Leadership & Sustainability - Organizational & Personal Leadership Training
Managing Sustainability Projects - Project Management for Sustainability Professionals

Please help us to determine the knowledge and capacity needs of communities and key stakeholders in advancing sustainability!

Contributing is easy!! Post an idea and vote on other ideas being presented by community members across Alberta.

What is Crowdsourcing?

The Idea: The world needs BIG ideas. It also needs bite-sized ideas that are easy to understand and support. More than ever, consumers, corporations, citizens and donors are attracted to providing input into the projects, brands and communities that they feel a part of. They expect to be able to make a direct and visible impact on things that matter personally to them. Our community partner, Urban Resilience, believes there is a way to get the crowd involved that encourages more people to participate than just the most vocal.

The Platform: Our community & civic engagement partner Urban Resilience has developed a Community Systems Framework that is designed to enable a robust systems approach to stakeholder, citizen and/or donor engagement.

The Crowd:Start a new project, set a new direction, plant an idea seed, fund an initiative or spark social change: Urban Resilience can make it simple for organizations to channel the wisdom of crowds into productive ideas or change that matters.

*For more information about this emerging tool and how we can help your organization reach out and access the crowd to create solutions, please contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Refining Curriculum

What topics would you recommend that we cover for full and half day professional experience-based learning seminars for community leaders & industry innovators? Please add your comments to any of the ideas that are posted here and like the ones you support.