-More accessible space – bring in young people – campaign targeted to young people to have a community garden in every school by connecting schools to existing community projects/organizations- tie into 40 hr community service requirement – bring to life through social media – online campaign – through to school boards. As a result, give young people trade experience that can be used at experimental farm or other already existing impact projects.
-Infrastructure – long-term strategy to build cohesive identity for sustainable Ottawa; influence city political environment, common core message translated down to all levels; create a shadow “board” with people of influence in community to help influence policy at city
-Make Ottawa become known as a knowledge base for sustainability – work in collaboration on a week or two week long event married to the city and not to an individual org or person; what comes first – individual action or collective event – can’t talk about enviro sustainability without social sustainability – build on neighborhood hubs that will ‘triage’ the top/ most popular ideas/topics/ for action
-2 ideas on food; focus on local food system, simple and concrete – food distribution, green houses, expand markets, high-leverage, something concrete
-Regional food hub to bring it to scale
-Food hub to come together and share ideas in a more formal, on-going way
-Community gardens; transform the experimental farm into a giant large scale community garden
-Link to farm – students plant seeds (like the tree planting project)
-Create full-service credit union – like VanCity – that provides everything
-Take a part of Ottawa and create a dockside green type project – a showcase – million ideas.com
-Work together on community scale retrofits
-Clothing/fashion swap
-Establish a leadership council to include business leaders, ngo’s, non-profits; shared values, goals, objectives
-Opportunity for this council to amplify messaging to public and to governments
-Focus on a specific topic ares – eg local food; energy and carbon, eco-business zone; shared, collective assets of various sectors
-A hub – vision for Ottawa – Ottawa community sustainable partnership – any group could participate and access the hub
-What are we aspiring to b? what’s appropriate to a city this size? create a library
