by landscapewanderer | Sep 5, 2023 | Environmentalism, Working in Sustainable Development
You may be familiar with the parable of the three bricklayers, but in case not, here it is in brief. A traveler came upon a construction site and saw a bricklayer at work. He asked the bricklayer what he was doing. “I’m laying bricks,” the man replied. The traveler...
by landscapewanderer | Feb 22, 2022 | Working in Sustainable Development
The pandemic has been driving many of us stir-crazy, although obviously it goes far beyond the usual kind of stir-crazy. The pandemic, and its lockdowns and travel restrictions, and some people’s theories about the pandemic and about the government’s response to it,...
by landscapewanderer | Feb 19, 2021 | Participation and Facilitation, Working in Sustainable Development
The downside of virtual meetings The COVID lockdowns and travel restrictions have forced people to make more use of virtual meeting technologies. People are organizing workshops, meetings and other kinds of interactions that in the past would have only happened by...
by landscapewanderer | Dec 19, 2019 | Landscape Approaches, Participation and Facilitation, Working in Sustainable Development
I’m sick of problem trees and brainstorming exercises. In initiatives based on a landscape approach, once the various stakeholders with some connection to the landscape have been brought together, often one of the first things they are asked to do is some kind of...
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