26.04.09
People likes the climate…!
Whenever I stumble upon an initiative that I see is related to finding unity between people and business, I am surprised how it in most cases also relates to environmental issues.
Finding unity between people and business is about making the world you have at work and the world you have in your “free time” melt into one. The view of working because you must stay alive in a society build on economics and the monetary system is something I believe should be broken.
It is about living and wanting to be part of the work you do and find drive from your passions and core motivations. And when it comes to passion I often discover that it relates to helping the environment and preventing the climate crisis.
Last week 6 KaosPilots including me, worked with the municipal of Oss. It is a town of 70.000 people in the middle of Holland and they have made the impossible possible and build a Future Center. A Future Center consists of creative offices and rooms where inspiration and innovation have free flow. It is a mindset where the normal conventional way of having meetings, working and socializing becomes taboo. Basically a Future Center is about making the business and people in the municipality come closer in different settings.
It was a hard struggle through bureaucratics, conservatism and people judgments, but for Simoon Fransen, who was the entrepreneur of this project, fought for 3 years and have now succeed.
And therefore she called in the KaosPilots to help her bring this message forward (If you want to learn more about the Future Centers then please visit: www.open-futures.net. And if you would like to know more about the KaosPilot process to bring the message forward then visit: http://kpnlteam2.wordpress.com ).
The Future Centers around the world are about sparking innovation and creativity into every day workplaces and this is about finding unity between people and business. And they are now focussing on attending the Copenhagen Climate Conference to bring the message forward.
As a Dane I am often asked how I can help people here in Holland to be part of the massive event in Copenhagen this December. I try as best as I can to look for options but I have not yet found out where and how people, organisations and companies can participate, meet and share ideas.
I have even submitted a proposal to Copenhagen municipal to make a Peoples Climate Conference and they were exited but still haven’t given any word.
It feels strange that all these people I meet have ambitions to make a difference and would like to bring it forward in Copenhagen but nobody knows how. I hope that they will be able to and share some of the amazing projects, ideas and products that I over the past year have seen can change the environment for the better. Not just the climate but also the working environment.
