Want to Be the Change? Here’s How
These days there is an increasing amount of people who care about the health of the planet, their community, their family, themselves. Where they come from is also increasing in breadth, now including people far beyond the usual suspects, even from 5 years ago. You don’t have to be a Greenpeace activist chaining yourself to ships to make an impact these days. In fact, it seems there’s an overwhelming amount of options, big and small, to make a positive impact. It’s enough to leave anybody dumbfounded as to what to do.
Along comes Be The Change, an environmental leadership program from Silicon Valley based Acterra. They sum it up best when they say:
The program emphasizes building skills that enable people to act within the organizations where they work, live, worship and play to bring about significant changes in how they relate to the natural world.
Awesome.
Basically, they give you the framework, tools, knowledge, and help give direction to and cohesiveness around your desire to make a difference, so that you can powerfully help affect change, wherever you are. And this is where action needs to happen. Yes, we have leaders in government duking it out to sound as climate positive as possible, but in the end, it’s multiple, deeply ingrained actions among multiple types of community and workplace that will lead to a sustained impact.
What does it look like? In a nutshell, it meets once a month for a year, with solo and group activities in between. Just the title of the curriculum components tells a lot: Visionary Leadership, Environmental Information, Skill Building, Networking, Personal Mastery, and Practice.
This practical, ongoing, dedicated approach to creating effective change agents is a model that I think should be studied and replicated in other parts of the world. How about where you live?
Classes start in September.
Readers: What’s happening in your part of the world to help channel peoples enthusiasm into green action?
Additional Reading:
Naturally Successful: Inspiring Videos From Green Entrepreneurs: Ecopreneurist
Stabilizing Earth’s Atmosphere a Priority for Ecopreneurs: Share 350.org Animation Video with all Stakeholders : Ecopreneurist
Fuel For Your Entrepreneurial Brain : Ecopreneurist
I sooo much wish I could shout A ‘wake up’ to the people out there who don’t understand. Today’s life style is not sustanable. Period. Every one should just stop and understand what their choices are.
Amen, sister!