Christine Mondor, David Deal, and Stephen Hockley
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780262019415
- eISBN:
- 9780262315388
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262019415.003.0009
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
The rapid market uptake of green building has transformed the design and construction industries. However, little attention has been given to how a green building project transforms the organizations ...
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The rapid market uptake of green building has transformed the design and construction industries. However, little attention has been given to how a green building project transforms the organizations for which the project was built. This chapter argues that green building projects are often a gateway or a gravitational assist that gives momentum to a broader, organization-wide definition and commitment to sustainability. Gravitational assist describes the transformation of organizational culture to include concern for holistic sustainability through place-based initiatives. This chapter establishes a definition for “organizational sustainability” and then explores the relationship between green building projects and broader environmental and social commitments. The chapter describes a systemic approach to sustainability through three types of actions, those concerning people, process, and place.Less
The rapid market uptake of green building has transformed the design and construction industries. However, little attention has been given to how a green building project transforms the organizations for which the project was built. This chapter argues that green building projects are often a gateway or a gravitational assist that gives momentum to a broader, organization-wide definition and commitment to sustainability. Gravitational assist describes the transformation of organizational culture to include concern for holistic sustainability through place-based initiatives. This chapter establishes a definition for “organizational sustainability” and then explores the relationship between green building projects and broader environmental and social commitments. The chapter describes a systemic approach to sustainability through three types of actions, those concerning people, process, and place.
Joshua Sparrow
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- October 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198747109
- eISBN:
- 9780191809439
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198747109.003.0014
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology
The Harlem Children’s Zone® (HCZ) and the Brazelton Touchpoints Center engaged in ‘collaborative consultation’ to co-create early childhood and parent support programming. This collaboration is the ...
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The Harlem Children’s Zone® (HCZ) and the Brazelton Touchpoints Center engaged in ‘collaborative consultation’ to co-create early childhood and parent support programming. This collaboration is the story of a community coming together to reclaim and reconstruct environments for raising children and to connect adult caregivers to support each other in that process. A relational, developmental, strengths-based, and culturally grounded approach was employed to build mutual respect, trust, and understanding over time in authentic relationships required for shared learning, and for programme development and improvement. The inherent and culturally rooted strengths and resources of parents, and other family and community members mutually reinforced each other as contexts and conditions were created in which these caregivers could come together to activate their community’s collective problem-solving capacity, to share their dreams for their children, and to provide emotional support and concrete resources for each other.Less
The Harlem Children’s Zone® (HCZ) and the Brazelton Touchpoints Center engaged in ‘collaborative consultation’ to co-create early childhood and parent support programming. This collaboration is the story of a community coming together to reclaim and reconstruct environments for raising children and to connect adult caregivers to support each other in that process. A relational, developmental, strengths-based, and culturally grounded approach was employed to build mutual respect, trust, and understanding over time in authentic relationships required for shared learning, and for programme development and improvement. The inherent and culturally rooted strengths and resources of parents, and other family and community members mutually reinforced each other as contexts and conditions were created in which these caregivers could come together to activate their community’s collective problem-solving capacity, to share their dreams for their children, and to provide emotional support and concrete resources for each other.
