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Vital Signs 2010 Survey – Last Chance to Have Your Say!
The Calgary Foundation has extended the deadline for its 2010 Vital Signs survey. You now have until July 23 to offer your input on what makes Calgary a great city – and what needs to be improved. Take part and you’ll be eligible for some great prizes. Learn more here. |
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Democracy in Action
In a few short months, Calgarians will be going to the polls to elect their civic leaders. www.calgarydemocracy.ca is a great resource for researching the candidates, the issues and the options. Together we can help achieve an important imagineCALGARY Target: By 2036, there is a 75 per cent turnout in municipal elections. |
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Enmax and City of Calgary Go Electric
imagineCALGARY Partners Enmax and The City of Calgary are embarking on a three-year pilot project that will see electric cars added to their fleets. Learn more here. |
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Green Calgary on iCTV
Green Calgary is the latest imagineCALGARY Partner to be featured on imagineCALGARY TV. Check out what Heather Hendrie has to say about the importance of being sustainable here. |
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L.E.A.F. and Restaurant Sustainability
Want to make sure the food you are eating is produced and prepared in a sustainable way? L.E.A.F. is a Canadian service that offers accreditation for foodservice establishments that are operating sustainably. Learn more here. |
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Sustainability for Leaders Level 1
This fall, Natural Step Canada is hosting their Sustainability for Leaders Course (Level 1) in Calgary, offering participants a chance to gain the skills they’ll need to champion sustainability within their organizations. Click here to learn more. |
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Youth For Sustainability Contest
The Spiral Table is a group committed to encouraging sustainability, good business practices and collaboration. This year, they are offering $10,000 in grants to youth projects focused on sustainability. The deadline for applications to the Youth for Sustainability competition is August 31. |
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imagineCALGARY Top Tip
TED Talks are a great source of information and inspiration. Last week, TED Global 2010: And Now The Good News took place in Oxford, with a diverse and extensive roster of speakers (from pop singer Annie Lennox to Diplomat Joseph Nye and the founder of micro-lender Kiva, Jessica Jackley). You can visit TED Talks for the latest videos from the conference, including Elif Shafak on connections, cultures and the politics of fiction. |
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The Last Word
"Collaborating is ultimately about relationships, and relationships do not thrive based on a rational calculus of costs and benefits but rather because of genuine caring and mutual vulnerability. Building the capacity to collaborate is hard work and demands the best of people, particularly when it involves people from different organizations (or even different departments within a larger organization) with different goals and with little history of working together, maybe even with histories of distrust and antagonism. In particular, we have found that building this capacity rests on three capabilities: convening, listening and nurturing shared commitment."
- Peter Senge, et al., The Necessary Revolution |
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