Receiving a big award made me notice how integrity and values shape my life and work, from the scale of me to the scale of communities, neighbourhoods and cities.
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To participate in the evolution of our cities and communities, city planners can no longer work the way they’ve worked for decades.
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When busy rescuing others or looking for others to rescue us, we miss the opportunity to renew ourselves.
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Six ideas and eight suggestions to improve a community’s ability to be proactive, responsive and response-ABLE as the scales of emergencies grow.
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I had an “allergic reaction” this summer to some language people around me are using to invite climate action: “be a first responder.” And so, I sit and write as a means to scratch the itch. What I found: As the scale of emergency grows, the ability of community to be proactive, responsive and response-ABLE becomes imperative.
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6 questions to ask at any time in your career, in Beth’s address delivered to the Master of City Planning graduates at the University of Manitoba, June 2021.
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Mutual agency fosters sovereignty in self and others and enables a generosity that seeds our regenerative future.
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Choose when to be oblivious, a spectator or an active part of efforts to improve. (Note: You don’t have to be everything at once.)
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Here’s what I experience: when I use economic goods with a fixation that feeds my cravings and compulsions, I create the conditions for my own wasting away. I experience a pull away from self; I distract myself from myself.
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There are citizen responsibilities that comes with realizing that “I don’t want to hear that the game we were playing, with rules I understood and could make work for me, has ended.” It’s time to do the work of hearing what we don’t want to hear.
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Consider that innovation is simply new work, and the constant regeneration of new work is how we adapt to our changing world. If our work stayed the same, our species would not have travelled and settled across the planet. New work--innovation--allows us to evolve. The habitats we build for ourselves have evolved with us, for they are the result of our work.
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There is a strong pull within us to move back to normal, to business as was usual. Opening businesses, ceasing our physical distancing practices too early is collapse behaviour. Wanting something to be as it was in insufficient to make it so; feedback loops are life or death right now and we ignore them at our peril.
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