OS applied to Sustainability in Communities

Fri Mar 4 16:07:03 PST 2011

Dear Brett,

Thank you for this timely and valuable information for us as we are planning
to establish a social enterprise named "Ecovil Korea" in order to design an
up-to-date Eco-Village in South Korea and help local governments to develop
sustainable communities by applying this to their context.(We had organized
a study group "Ecovil Korea" inspired by the book "Ithaca Eco-Village" with
about 20 people 3 years ago.)

Next week we will have a meeting with a representative from the central
government who is in charge of this area. I will prepare a summary of this
file to share with them.

I think Green Map concept is very useful. May I have some more examples
proving its utility in actual practices?
I will appreciate it if you can recommend anybody who is interested in
working with us as a member of our advisory board.
You can use my personal email shan at itapintl.com for further communication.

With my best regards
Saehi

Saehi HAN

ITAP Asia-Pacific
1315 Yongbieocheon-Ga
75 Naesu-Dong Jongno-Gu, Seoul
110-070 South Korea
Tel: +82-2-2195-5080  Mobile: +82-11-395-2884
Fax: +82-2-2195-5090
Email: shan at itapintl.com
Web: www.itapasia.com  www.itapintl.com

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Brett
Barndt
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 6:21 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: [OSLIST] OS applied to Sustainability in Communities

Dear OSList:

I would like to share this white paper with all of you about a survey we
conducted over the last year about applying self-organizing methods to the
formidable challenges facing communities to generate sustainable energy and
economies. This field survey represents an interdisciplinary effort to
introduce change management and OD thinking into the mix now mostly
dominated by energy engineers and finance people. I thank members of this
list for responding to my solicitation last year to be survey participants,
and in the interests of confidentiality will thank you each individually. We
are most excited because we did this research in NYC amongst Wall St and
other observers for whom these concepts are quite new, and maybe even quite
shocking!

There is a rich opportunity for beginning-to-end community co-design methods
to fill a gap that actually addresses the needs of communities, activist
movements, project developers, politicians, AND institutional investors with
ethical, social, patient capital objectives, or just plain reliable
predictable actuarial long-term fixed-income tax-advantaged returns
unattainable the last 10 years due to the legal/regulatory and other
"socially constructed" conditions (I will use that term with you) of US
democracy at the moment! I am delighted to share this white paper with you
and show the tangible links of self-organizing principles to real returns in
the coming years.

We are pleased to announce the release of our survey "Real Returns:
Linking Communities to Investors for Sustainable Development" produced as a
collaborative project through the 2010 Cleantech Executives Fellowship at
NYC Accelerator for Cleantech and Renewable Energy.

This survey conveys the findings of interviews with mayors, town council
members, city planners, economic development professionals, energy project
and real estate developers, activists in all areas of sustainability
including energy, food, water, waste, permaculture, and practitioners in
multi-stakeholder and community engagement. The survey participants also
uniquely include project finance and institutional investment professionals,
with EU as well as US participants.

The overall findings reflect an opportunity in communities for co-design of
sustainability projects and greater use of management methods that can
reduce risk and increase attractiveness of smaller deals to prospective
investors. These findings also reflect an opportunity for greater use of
communication and networked collaboration tools to reach a much broader
audience for education, awareness, and knowledge sharing about
sustainability options in every domain. Finally, we see an opportunity for
innovation in financial services to reduce cost of smaller deal sizes in
local community projects, and in skill building to originate projects and
increase access to patient and social capital investors who are seeking
stable returns from long-term infrastructure or local enterprise projects.

The survey was developed by Cleantech Executives Spring 2010 cohort
participants Brett Barndt, Wendy Brawer, and Lakis Polycarpou. We are
pleased to distribute this discussion and findings to you the many
participants in the survey who provided such valuable information and
insight, as well as numerous stakeholders in the NYC clean energy, green
economy, and sustainability sectors who expressed interest in these
findings.

We look forward to continuing dialogue with each of you and identifying
opportunities where these findings for new beginning-to-end process could be
applied in practice around the US, and with our participants from around the
world. Please consider opportunities where these ideas and practice might
apply to your projects. We would like to engage with organizations already
active where best practices in community organizing and crowd-sourcing can
contribute to successfully originating and financing new projects in
community co-design settings.

Please let us know your reaction and thoughts. We want to thank each of the
participants for the time you spent with us last year, and we hope the
results of this survey make a contribution to your approaches to doing
business and developing new projects.

Yours sincerely,

Brett BARNDT
Mob: +1 917 517 4726

http://GreenMap.org/greenhouse/files/RealReturns_whitepaper2011.pdf

--
Seek first to understand, then be understood. Stephen Covey

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