Responsive Sustainability: ACtive Hope=Joyous Living
Responsive Sustainability is a boutique sustainability and community engagement firm offering a la carte education, coaching, consulting and project management services to support and enhance your sustainability and community engagement initiatives.
The idea is simple- not everyone can afford or wants a full-time sustainability coordinator. Responsive Sustainability can work with individuals, families, businesses and organizations for a specific amount of time and on a specific project. This partnership can lay the ground work for long-term sustainability be developing shared values and vision, creating strong relationships among members, and building momentum and support for sustainability projects. After the project is finished your entity will have the language, shared understanding and working relationship to continue to build and enhance your sustainability initiatives.
The Responsive Sustainability approach begins with your values, interests and capacities. From there we co-design and implement the sustainable plan that is right for you. Benefits of this values-based approach include:
- sustainability and engagement goals that align with your values and long-term plans
- identifying action areas that enhance your sense of purpose and compliment your skills
- building capacity and community while improving social justice and ecological stewardship.
Responsive Sustainability provides professional services and expertise in:
- sustainability and community engagement education and curriculum development
- values-based leadership coaching and project mentorship
- participatory planning, research and evaluation
- community engagement and sustainability project management
- sustainable agriculture, outdoor learning and garden design
- eco-friendly living and travel
Responsive Sustainability will make your sustainability and community engagement initiatives ecologically and socially impactful while building capacity, relationships, and momentum!
The Responsive Sustainability Philosophy
Real, deep sustainable change happens from aligning our values with our efforts and actions. Responsive Sustainability means exactly that- our work together will be a response to your own values, skills and interests so that your sustainability projects respond to and align with deeper goals and mission of an organization, individual, family or business.
Taking a "slow sustainability" approach, and guided by the UN Sustainable Development goals, means that we are looking to create systematic change by focusing on values and their corresponding behavior. Many sustainability educational and community programs engage employees/members in initiatives but they rarely get begin with the values, individually or collectively, that are being enacted during sustainability efforts. This can create a disconnect between values and the work being done and is also a missed opportunity for growth and relationship building.
Responsive Sustainability starts with your values so that we can together build programs and initiatives that leave you feeling more connected with yourself, your community and the natural world. By focusing on your strengths, interests and motivating beliefs, we will co-create plan/projects/initiatives that will amplify your existing efforts while ensuring a positive impact on the earth and its inhabitants.
