Why are community engagement processes failing to engage local people with sustainability issues? And what can we do about it? I took a hard look at current community engagement processes in Canada, Australia and elsewhere. And I found them failing to meet the challenges posed by sustainability in our cities and towns.
My intention was to inspire my audience to use more targeted and tested methods based on leading practice principles that build community confidence and capacity and open the door to true community engagement: methods that help local people understand the dimensions and pitfalls of sustainability and build hope and confidence for the future.
The lecture was co-sponsored by the City of Coquitlam, District of North Vancouver and the SFU City Program.
Kitchen Table Sustainability, was formally launched by Mr Stephen Hynes of Hillside Developments.
Known as “the social developer”, Stephen Hynes is a leading member of Vancouver and British Columbia’s property development community. He says:
“We appear individually powerless to change the great structures that condition our lives. But if we understand their influence we can make local, incremental improvements.”
See www.hillside.ca/
Here is a link to a video of the lecture:
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