Project Overview

2. Sustainable Cascadia provides ongoing convening and collaborative tools for communities to learn and work together

4. Systems Approach to Sustainability

6. Why a Bioregion Approach?

14. Life Sustaining Natural Resources TIME Resource Productive Capacity Now 2050 Demand for Resources

27. Alternative Energy … wind power is showing similar growth patterns

29. The Human Side of Change Davis and Dean Adopting New Behaviors - w here We Get Stuck Routine Change Event Time is variable Decline Let go Creativity/Confusion Ah Ha! Renewal New Routine Productivity Time

31. Theory of Change Craig Fleck

42. An Ongoing Action Agenda 5 Years of Annual Planning Sustainability Commons WISERCascadia Cascadia Convergence Desired Future Arts/Culture Eco-village Green Festival Collaborative Conference Dynamic Marketplace Urban Summit Implement Action Agenda Strategic Agenda: Collaborative Work Sessions Emergent Agenda: Collaborative Technology Supports Self-Organization Planning/Prework Framing: Bioregional Annual Theme: Year 1: Climate Change Year 2: TBD

44. Community of Practice development— where work over time can help Transform Stewardship Maturing Coalescing Potential Loose network of people with similar issues and needs Members come together and launch a community It forms an identity, takes charge of its practice, and grows The community is established and acts as the steward of its domain The community has outlived its usefulness and people move on Discover extant connections—and imagine new ones that could exist Create value for internal members—and for external sponsors and stakeholders Focus on topics and projects for current members— and expand to include new people, ideas, and challenges Take ownership for a practice—and demonstrate openness to others’ ideas and methodologies Let go as the issues are resolved or change—and live on: merge efforts, define a legacy, and keep in touch Stages of development Development tensions “ We let these groups evolve.” Legend: Jagged line shows typical levels of activity over time Source: Wenger, et al., Cultivating Communities of Practice

45. Sustainable Cascadia supports an alliance of communities working over time… Projects Visits Conversation space Informal interactions Teleconferences Face-to-face meetings & workshops Website Face-to-face time provides access to practitioners, builds trust, and fosters sense of joint enterprise—important foundation for ecology of learning activities Teleconferences provide for low-cost, interactive problem solving, idea generation, and executive education On-site visits provide opportunities to learn in context and develop closer relationships Projects build new knowledge and produce new insights, tools, and documents; also build relationships and sense of joint enterprise Virtual space for efficient information sharing, unobtrusive Q&A, and peripheral learning Website contains course material, directory with bios, links to resources, case studies, tools and frameworks, lessons learned, etc. One-to-one interactions by phone and email help build relationships while getting help and sharing ideas Taken from: ODN Conference Presentation: Communities of Practice, Promoting Sustainability in Organizations and Society, William Snyder and Amy Keill