Workshop 1: Start Here
Jump-start your organization's sustainability program. If you’ve been thinking about planning and implementing sustainable strategies to improve your operations, market reputation, employee relations – or any other business function – this workshop will lay the foundation for an integrated, whole-systems approach that will energize your employees and foster a spirit of team-building and innovation.
Here is what your day might look like:
Observation and interaction
- Auditing the current physical and cultural conditions that produce and consume energy.
Permaculture
- An integrated, whole system approach toward designing self-renewing functions into your organization.
Ideas into action
- The ethics and core principles of the permaculture approach and how to use them. This is a toolkit your entire organization will use to create a realistic sustainability plan.
Vision and its value
- Creating a vision of permanence. A creative process to develop a shared vision of the future.