Environmental Initiative staff presented to the Parks and Trails Legacy Funding Work Group about our approach to facilitation and developing consensus.
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1. Parks & Trails Legacy Funding
Introductory Meeting
Mike Harley & Emily Franklin
April 24, 2012
2. Overview
• Who We Are
• What We Do
• Dialogue & Process
• Questions and Contact
Information
3. Who We Are
• 20-year-old nonprofit organization
• Mission: Build partnerships to develop collaborative
solutions to Minnesota’s environmental problems.
• Environmental solutions through three areas of work:
o Events
o Dialogue
o Action
4. Board of Directors
Paul Durkee, Chair Ann Glumac
Antea USA Inc. Glumac Executive Enterprise
Mary Jo Roth, Vice Chair Mike Hansel
Great River Energy Barr Engineering
Terry Coss, Treasurer Don Hickman
Xcel Energy Initiative Foundation
Jon Bloomberg, Secretary Deb McGovern
Bloomberg & Podpeskar LLP Environmental Resources Management
Julie Ketchum, Executive Committee Heather Rein
Waste Management Flint Hills Resources
Perry Aasness Dan Schmid
Minnesota Farm Bureau 3M
Marian Bender Susan Schmidt
Emrose Consulting Services The Trust for Public Land
Darrell Gerber Scott Strand
Clean Water Action Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy
5. Events
• Networking, diverse perspectives, access to experts
o Business and Environment Series
o Environmental Initiative Awards
o Policy Forum Series
6. Dialogue
We facilitate conversations with environmental leaders to
achieve policy and other environmental solutions for a
cleaner, stronger Minnesota.
o Goals are clear
o Independent and transparent
o Highly participatory and collaborative
7. Action
• Project Green Fleet
o Over 3,500 cleaner engines
operating statewide
o Average of 2 tons of particulate
matter (soot) reduced per day
• Other Action Projects
o Autobody Refinishing Industry
Project
o Habitat for Humanity Green
Demonstration House
8. Dialogue
As a neutral convener and facilitator on environmental issues, we
strive for a balance of voices and equal power among project
participants.
Environmental Initiative dialogue projects typically have:
o Experienced, trained facilitators
o Tangible goals, or outcomes
o Established ground rules, agreed upon by project participants
o Transparency and openness
o Opportunities for group learning
9. The Process of Building
Consensus
Identify Parking Lot
Mutual
Issues and
Education
Opportunities
Consensus
Scope Issues
Agreement on
to Address
Solutions
Draft
Solutions
Develop
Solution
Options
10. Dialogue Outcomes
• Helped shape legislation resulting in the Clean Water Legacy Act
• A state plan to reduce mercury air emissions by 2,600 lbs per year
below current levels
• 38 strategies to reduce 47.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide by
2025 from the solid waste sector
• Current processes
o Minnesota Chemical Regulation and Policy Project
o Agricultural Leadership Dialogue
o Minnesota’s Clean Air Dialogue
11. Past Dialogue Funders & Partners
3M Minnesota Department of Health
BlueGreen Alliance Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Board of Water & Soil Resources Pentair Foundation
Ecolab Foundation University of Minnesota Water
Resources Center
Flint Hills Resources
McKnight Foundation
Minnesota Agricultural Water
Resources Coalition
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce
Minnesota Department of Commerce
12. Meetings & Groups
• Work Group
o 9 members to develop consensus recommendations
o Six meetings between now and October 2012
• Core Team (Executive & Managing Sponsors)
o Purpose is for feedback, input & strategic insight to plan Work Group meetings
o Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Metropolitan Council & Greater
Minnesota Regional Parks & Trails Coalition
o Advisory only
• Partners Group
o Inform & educate a wider range of interested stakeholders
o Meetings are open to the public
13. Parks & Trails Legacy
Funding
Project Team Bender
• Facilitator – Marian
320.420.4798 // marian@emrose.org
• Project Manager – Emily Franklin
612.334.3388 ext.114 // efranklin@environmental-initiative.org
• Project Associate – Eric David
612.334.3388 ext.108 // edavid@environmental-initiative.org
• Strategic Advisor – Mike Harley
612-334-3388 ext.110 // mharley@environmental-initiative.org
14. Communications
• Want to ensure an open & transparent process
• Dedicated project webpage
o Meeting information and schedule
o Resources and background information
o http://www.environmental-initiative.org/projects/minnesota-chemical-regulation-a-policy
• Work Group meeting notices posted and emailed one week prior to meetings
• Work Group meeting summaries posted and emailed one week following a meeting
15. 211 North First Street, Suite 250
Minneapolis, MN 55401
612.334.3388 (p)
612.334.3093 (f)
www.environmental-initiative.org
www.projectgreenfleet.org
16. Draft Timeline & Schedule
• Introductory Meeting – April
• Meeting 1 – May (Week of 5/14)
• Meeting 2 – June (Week of 6/11 or 6/18)
• Meeting 3 – July (Week of 7/16)
• Meeting 4 – August (Week of 8/13 or 8/20)
• Meeting 5 – September (Week of 9/10)
• Meeting 6 – September/October (Week of 9/24 or 10/1)
Notas del editor
Mike
Mike
Mike – Just note the diversity of our board and it’s alignment with our mission to build diverse partnerships to solve problems.
This second half of our presentation is meant to provide you with an overview of our dialogue projects including:-our approach for facilitation and reaching consensus-our track record & past partnersI’ll also talk a bit about this project/why you are all here including:-who is on the team-the tools we’ll have and our plans for working together
Spend time getting stakeholders on the same page through presentations from issue experts and facilitated discussions during initial meetings.Through active facilitation, stakeholders identify issues, opportunitieis and in some cases barriers to solving a problemWe use the parking lot tool to track important ideas and issues that may not be useful to discuss at a given time during a meeting. The principle is to return to them later – issues move in and out of the parking lot during a process. Scoping Issues and Developing Solution Options is really just our way of narrowing down and focusing all of the possible recommendations or solutions to a problem to a more manageable, or prioritized set. Once solution options have been selected, specific recommendations, or solutions to the problem are drafted. Stakeholders have opportunities to weigh in, provide feedback and make adjustments. Tada! We arrive at consensus. It’s really just that simple isn't it?
-Our dialogue work really took off in the early 2000s through the Impaired Waters Stakeholder Process. Environmental advocates, the business community, agricultural leaders, representatives from state & local government worked together to develop the policy foundations of what became the Clean Water Legacy Act-As most of you probably know, CWLA is a policy framework that describes how Minnesota will restore its impaired waters and protect high quality water resources.Thirty-three percent of the sales tax revenue from the Legacy amendment is allocated to the Clean Water Fund to support these efforts.-We’ve also tackled mercury air emissions, CO2 emissions from the solid waste sector, strategies to meet the state’s energy efficiency goals and more.-We typically manage at least 2 facilitated processes per year, if not more. These are the current processes underway – soon to add a fourth with this project.
-Much of this work has been done in partnership with state agencies; but businesses, foundations & other organizations have also supported this work.
We have three groups planned for this process that will meet & help us work towards consensus recommendations:Work Group – Hey, that’s you guys!Core Team-DNR Project Manager, Managing Sponsors & Environmental Initiative (Emmett Mullin, Courtland Nelson,Arne Stefferud,Chuck Wocken)Partners Group-Plan is for one meeting-We’ll decide as we move along in the process when & where to schedule this meeting. We will also work to design the agenda for this meeting.
Facilitator – Marian. Marian will say a few things.Emily & Eric-lead agenda development & design in partnership with DNR-capture meeting outcomes-ensure transparent and open communication-write the final report which captures the consensus recommendations of the groupMike-Mike Harley is our executive director who wears lots of hats. He’ll be serving in an advisory role to our team for the project.