Resources
Our Favourites
Facilitation and Leadership
- The Art of Hosting - A community of practitioners, and resources
- The Art of Harvesting - Ways to bring the Art of Hosting to fruition
- Chris Corrigan's Blog - Facilitation resources (and a really good blog!)
- Future Search - A planning meeting that helps people transform their capability for action quickly
- Open Space World - A simple and effective way to run productive discussions
- Otto Scharmer - “Addressing the Blind Spot of our Time”
- The World Cafe - Awakening and engaging collective intelligence through conversations that matter
Systemic Change and Multi-Stakeholder Process
- Communities of Practice - The website of Etienne Wenger
- David Eaves' Blog - on open data and open government
- Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze - Using Emergence to take Social Innovation to Scale
- David Cooperrider - Appreciative Inquiry and Positive Change
- A Teaching on the Chaordic Path - Video
- 5 Things to Make Large-Scale Behaviour Change - Article
Other Articles
- Guelber, Alla “The Quest for Meaningful Work.” Unlimited Magazine. 2010: Print. An article touching on social innovation in Canada and the younger generation’s search for meaningful work.
- Kun, Karen “The Golden Rules of Networking.” BC Youth Congress Report. February 18, 2009
- Kun, Karen “A Journey into social enterprise” Waterlution
- Glad, Tatiana “Water is far from a simple commodity: how our water work is systemic work” Waterlution, 2009
General Water
- FLOW, Ecojustice and CIER - “Seeking Water Justice: Strengthening Legal Protection of Canada’s Drinking Water”
- FLOW - FLOW Monitor, Fall 2010
- Freshwater Summit 2010 - Communiqué (including a proposed Canadian Charter of Water Rights and Responsibilities)
- Gordon Water Group - “Changing the Flow: A Blueprint for Federal Action on Freshwater”:
- Manitoba Water Stewardship - Transboundary Water Organization: An Overview
- National Roundtable on the Environment and Economy - “Changing Currents: Water Sustainability and the Future of Canada’s Natural Resource Sectors”
- Natural Resources Canada - “Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: A Canadian Perspective”
- Natural Resource Canada - “Emerging Hydropower Technologies R&D in Canada: A Strategy for 2007-2011″
- POLIS Project on Ecological Governance - “The Soft Path for Water in a Nutshell”
- The Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation - “Buried Treasure: Groundwater Permitting and Pricing in Canada”