Open space applied to sustainability projects?

[Steve Cochran]

Hello, Brett -

I use OS here in Asheville NC (and all over the place for the last 10 years
or so...) in support of sustainability initiatives - most recently last
night related to 'Property Assessed Clean Energy
<http://www.renewfund.com/pace/definition-history>(PACE)' which is being
implemented by the City and County governments - a fairly new development
enabled by the state legislature. It's being implemented in a dozen or so
states. We had 150 community participants - here's a link to the local
paper's editorial supporting the
program<http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010304150055>
.

Here also are links to two regional OS sessions I facilitated in the past:
the first with a theme of "Regional Collaboration and Action for
Sustainability" <http://sustainablewnc.org/sam/sam.php?sesno=0> (2007) and
the second "Urban Environmental Design for Community
Sustainability"<http://sustainablewnc.org/ued/ued.php>.
Both fostered remarkable partnerships, organizations and collaborations
between local and regional government, higher ed, business, NGOs, etc. (no
surprise there...).

Let me know if you need any further information. Good luck.

All the Best - Steve
-- 
Steve Cochran

Sustainability Strategies LLC <http://www.sustainabilitystrategies.com/>
National Center for Sustainability
Community Energy *Action* Council
Sustainable Cross-Laminated Technologies LLC
US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development

828-545-1467


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Brett Barndt <barndtbrett at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am working on a survey for NYC Accelerator for Cleantech and Renewable
> Energy. We'd like to speak to anyone who has applied OST to sustainability
> projects in communities, municipalities, regions.
>
> Our focus is to understand how OST can improve engagement and design
> process for sustainability development or technology projects as well as
> mitigate political and delay risks for financiers of these projects.
>
> Our finds have the potential to open up more liquidity for investment in
> locally sponsored revenue or carbon credit generating sustainability
> projects by better managing costs and delay or political risks of doing
> small locally based deals.
>
> We're interviewing players at every step of the value chain from design
> through project developers in solar, wind, tidal, geo-thermal, micro-grid,
> permaculture, waste/discards, water, brown fields re-development, de-paving,
> community agriculture to financing, construction, and management.
>
> Please let me know if you have any knowledge of OST applied to projects
> like these. We really look forward to talking to you about it. We'll share
> our findings results with our survey participants.
>
> Best regards,
> Brett Barndt
>
> --
> Seek first to understand, then be understood. Stephen Covey
>
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