One Earth

On 12 January, One Earth and the City of Vancouver co-hosted a dynamic workshop to explore strategies and actions to arrive at a ‘one planet’ Footprint, with a 2020 target of reducing Vancouver’s per capita footprint by 33%. Participants included members of Vancouver’s Lighter Footprint Committee and other community leaders, thinkers, practitioners and creative communicators. The workshop started with a future visioning exercise led by strategic foresight specialist and One Earth Senior Associate, Nicole Anne Boyer. We identified common patterns and differences, as well as the most powerful levers of change. This informed group feedback on Vancouver’s Greenest City actions in each of 10 goal areas. We discussed engagement strategies and tactics that will move Greenest City implementation more broadly out in to the community, as well as enable the City to implement the actions that they are most responsible for (http://www.talkgreentous.ca/). We were joined by Stina Brown, graphic facilitator, who captured the dialogue in graphic visualizations. The workshop piloted elements of a future visioning and cultural change process being undertaken at the North American scale within One Earth’s Rethinking the Good Life project.