-Need stronger identity as a city
-Vehicles for local investment
-Local and community investment very important to focus on – can build on orec
-Better ways to communicate a cross different parts/sectors of the city
-Need for link between grassroots and leadership (govt, business, etc)
-Better cross communication between urban and rural
-Youth, homeless, other marginalized groups need to engage them better
-Community gardens
-Working together on solutions
-Are we focusing on things we really want to do or are we just doing same as always?
-Community gardens, partnerships between lots of different players
-E.g – habitat and cycle salvation
-What would it take to maximize potential of community gardens??
-How to act on the potential?
-Is there opportunity for grassroots to have more impact?
-How can we make things easier – red tape minimize
-Work with school system – not engaging as much as could
-Caution that change takes time; recognize the whole process around change and time it takes
-Barriers – bigger institutions – need to get out and build connections
-How do we harness the passion?
-Individuals – feet in many worlds, volunteers, links with accidence sector eg
-Use big events to address the issue broadly and build from that
-We keep reinventing the wheels
-Need consistent political leadership at the highest level
-When players change, gets reinvented
-Need to find all-encompassing political leadership
-Need to recognize what’s been done
-Missing hubs and think tanks – starting to happen now
-Amplify our message to city hall and the province and have public/private collaborations to amplify message
-”Under one roof” is social innovators who collaborate and want to work together
-Existing transportation system not fun and hard to use;
-Ottawa – big organizations aren’t recycling
