A day of inspiration and new questions
What a wonderful nght's sleep! Of course after being up for nearly a day and a half without sleeping a probable could have slept well on the floor!
Breakfast brought bacl memories of my Swedish grandparents and the "hardtack" and cheese for breakfast. Oh, and the wonserful breads,too. Although the coffee was really awful.
We traveled to our morning meeting by subway. Over half of the people in Stockholm travel to work using mass transit and an additional 30% either walk or use the bike. Can you imagine how much oil we would save n the U.S. if we Americans utilized mass trans on our o leg power instead oof driving to work by ourselves in SUV's! We wouldn't need to be "protecting" our Middle East oil interests!
Listening to Torbjorn Lahti and Karl-Henrik Robert discuss the Natural Step was very informative and inspirational. Although I am relatively famaliar with the Natural Step and the 4 System Conditions it was very helpful to hear about it from the developer and implementor of this program.
It was also interesting to listen to the presentation from Jon Moeller, Agenda 21 Coordinator in Stockton and hear about the politicaland bureaucatical problems that he faces. As different as Sweden's political system might be we still share many of the same problems when trying to implemwnt public policy. He brought his two choldren with him to emphasize his reason for being involved in this work....his chldren's future.
From Nancy: I was quite inspired by Karl-Henrick Robert. He does a beautiful job of communicating the need to place strong science behind the arguement for sustainability and the ability to help those who might not be on board to feel less threatened and amenable to the "conversation." Their are consistent questions from many in the group on getting a better handle on how we move the process of educating people in a non-threatening and understandable way. We are eager to visit more of these municipalities and gather specific suggestions based on their experience.
This is such a beautiful city - and the people are incredibly gracious. It feels good to be here.
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Breakfast brought bacl memories of my Swedish grandparents and the "hardtack" and cheese for breakfast. Oh, and the wonserful breads,too. Although the coffee was really awful.
We traveled to our morning meeting by subway. Over half of the people in Stockholm travel to work using mass transit and an additional 30% either walk or use the bike. Can you imagine how much oil we would save n the U.S. if we Americans utilized mass trans on our o leg power instead oof driving to work by ourselves in SUV's! We wouldn't need to be "protecting" our Middle East oil interests!
Listening to Torbjorn Lahti and Karl-Henrik Robert discuss the Natural Step was very informative and inspirational. Although I am relatively famaliar with the Natural Step and the 4 System Conditions it was very helpful to hear about it from the developer and implementor of this program.
It was also interesting to listen to the presentation from Jon Moeller, Agenda 21 Coordinator in Stockton and hear about the politicaland bureaucatical problems that he faces. As different as Sweden's political system might be we still share many of the same problems when trying to implemwnt public policy. He brought his two choldren with him to emphasize his reason for being involved in this work....his chldren's future.
From Nancy: I was quite inspired by Karl-Henrick Robert. He does a beautiful job of communicating the need to place strong science behind the arguement for sustainability and the ability to help those who might not be on board to feel less threatened and amenable to the "conversation." Their are consistent questions from many in the group on getting a better handle on how we move the process of educating people in a non-threatening and understandable way. We are eager to visit more of these municipalities and gather specific suggestions based on their experience.
This is such a beautiful city - and the people are incredibly gracious. It feels good to be here.
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posted by pinehurstpair at 12:18 PM
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Hey, Kristen, don't you know that "choldren" is Swedish for "children"? And Dad's fingers are sort of large for these keys :-)
We'll post some city pics soon.
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