Leadership for Renewable Energy
Renewable energy needs a huge effort in leadership to bring about change that is positive for the environment. In truth, we have to change our whole infrastructure to produce the energy savings and efficiencies needed to effectively combat climate change.
Leadership in business includes leaders and managers who are promoting sustainability or eco-entrepreneurs who are setting up businesses that market environmentally responsible products and services. In government environmental leadership refers to those leaders at an international, national or local level who are working for environmental change. But we also have to be clear about what I mean by positive environmental change. What are the criteria we believe in
Eco-effectiveness
The Natural Step
Zero Waste
Renewable Energy alone
Minimal ecological footprint
Preserving biodiversity or increasing it
Reverence for Nature
Precautionary Principle – avoid actions that have the potential for damage, even if we cannot exactly predict the consequences
Whole Systems Change – radical change
We need to be clear about what is required and then create a philosophy and set of practices that encourages it. Leadership is the process of achieving this type of change.
Is anyone doing it?
What are the skills required?
How can it take place?
What is the vision?
What are the rewards of this change?
Is it a sacrifice or is it beneficial?
Needs a clear and coherent approach – like treatment for a patient. Diagnosis, Prognosis and treatment which is clear, rational and practicable. Our earth is dying – how do we save it? Lets be honest – the sort of changes suggested by most people are ineffectual, too slow and too weak. We know we have to do this so lets get on with it. The problem is not going to go away, it will get worse. Our generation needs to provide the leadership. We need a clear vision, clear goals and a coherent strategy for achieving these goals.
Strategies
Rationing
Taxation
Law
Education
Leading from what to what?
From materialism to shallow ecology to deep ecology – 3 steps
Or from materialism to deep ecology?
Efficiency to effectiveness
Reform or whole system change?
The nature of change is complex. Leadership is many things – a state of mind, skills, beliefs, behaviours, process, system. We need to operate at every level with every resource and skill we possess.
Further Reading
Books
How to How to Change the World
Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
David Bornstein
(Oxford University Press, 2004)
Kouzes, James M. Leadership challenge.
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2002
Covey, Stephen R Principle-Centered Leadership
Gardner, Howard Changing Minds,
HarvardBusinessSchoolPress 2004
Goleman, Daniel
Greenleaf, Robert The Leader as Servant
Journals
Environment and Behaviour
Corporate strategy and environment
Environmental Education Research
Commitment to Excellence: Practical Approaches to Environmental Leadership.
Environmental Quality Management; Summer2003, Vol. 12 Issue 4, p9, 14p, 6 charts, 2 diagrams
Steve Rice
Leadership Quarterly Special Issue on Environment
Volume 5, Issues 3-4, Pages 193-317 (1994)
Websites
http://www.greencorps.org/greencorpsrec.asp?id2=4886&id3=gc_rec&
http://www.thierryschool.org/thymalenvirolead.htm
http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~elc/
http://www.enviroleader.org/New/home.htm
http://www.hollyhockleadership.org/files/ACF620D.doc
http://www.enviroleader.org/New/home2.htm
http://www.elpnet.org/books.htm
http://www.elpnet.org/newsletter.html
http://www.lead.org/ email John Ashton – meet him, mention Ian Curtis
http://www.acoa.ca/e/entrepreneurship/protecting/
http://www.forumforcorporateconscience.com/pdfs/leadership.pdf
http://www.forumforcorporateconscience.com
http://sustainer.org/fellows/DMFPw1summ.pdf
http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~elc/
http://www.naropa.edu/envma/faculty.html
http://www.fanning.uga.edu/IGEL/IGELBrochure.pdf
http://www.doi.gov/greening/NPS/Matrices_Boston_NPS_Final_5AAA.pdf
http://www.utsa.edu/cpi/publications/LeadershipBrochure.pdf
http://www.epa.gov/performancetrack/
case studies
Aspen worlds highest carbon tax http://www.gristmagazine.com/maindish/clifford073102.asp
Local climate change initiatives http://www.gristmagazine.com/maindish/ellison073102.asp
Celebrities at Oscars
Global Green USA’s Oscars 2nd Annual Green Car campaign, some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Charlize Theron, Marcia Gay Harden, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Sting, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Robin Williams, Will Ferrell, and Jack Black, arrived at the red carpet at this years Academy Awards in alternative fuel vehicles rather than gas-guzzling limos
Mikhail Gorbachev
Green Cross International
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