Hey All,
As I continue to find clarity about how best to bring my gifts to the 2011 International Conference on Sustainability, Transition & Culture Change: Vision, Action, Leadership (link below) in Michigan in November (see link below), I find that it would be useful for me to do an informal survey. Any responses you feel called to give me in the comments below will be greatly appreciated.
To the extent that we can speak of a “movement” of people who are looking at the current “global situation” in terms of a confluence of environmental, energy, political, economic, cultural, and/or spiritual issues, I have three questions.
1) In broad strokes, what do you see are the goals, or specific measurable results, that this movement is attempting to reach? What is the movement for? What is the movement moving toward?
2) In what ways, if any, do you see that this movement has succeeded? Where has it made headway? How has it reached its goals or created the results it set out to create?
3) In what ways, if any, do you see that this movement has failed? Where has it lost ground? How has it failed to reach its goals?
I’m not looking for quotes to attribute (though I may find some, in which case I will ask your permission before sharing your words). I’m looking to get a general sense of how this “movement” views itself right now. If you have something to say to that end that feels to fall beyond the outlines of my questions, by all means share that as well. These may not be the best questions to ask. And feel free to pass this along to anyone whom you feel would be interested in responding.
Thanks!
Tim Bennett
Writer/Director - What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire
Author - All of the Above
http://www.sustainabilityconference.org/
