For the past year, Team Braiding has been in a design challenge process to develop a prototype to encourage youth to become more actively engaged in creating and implementing climate adaptation strategies. The product was ‘Resilience!”, a mobile app th…
As I started to write the final blog post for CALS 501 Leading Climate Action in Society, I looked back on my initial blog post at the start of the course and the program itself. The post centered around the concept of design thinking and all of the nuances we were learning about; however, after …
Almost exactly a year ago I wrote my first blog post regarding the beginning of my journey in the MACAL program, and first thoughts of the design challenge process. A few of the same feelings have remained constant throughout the year- the excitement and intrigue about the potential of this methodology to create solutions- and […]
Most Albertans do not understand what climate change means for their community or what to do about it (Team Alberta, Personal Communication, June 8, 2022). This is the Problem Statement in my team’s design thinking challenge. Our prototype is a workshop guidebook, designed to build local climate understanding and identify practical actions within existing community […]
June 12, 2022 This blog post is for assignment 6 in the CALS501 course. I remember lying in my bed as a child, listening to my parents sing bedtime songs: “Five little ducks went out one day, over the hills and far away… Momma duck said ‘quack, quack, quack quack’, but only four little ducks …
As I review my blog posts from the past year, I can see my thinking expanding outwards. At the beginning of the course I was asking questions about my own positionality and closing the ‘knowledge-action gap’ in regards to climate action leadership. More recently I was questioning who is at the table, and the importance […]
Hurry slowly. When I heard that phrase during the learning-intensive in June 2021, I wrote it on a blue sticky note and stuck it on my wall, where it has remained throughout the year. Unlike the other sticky notes that inspire me to persevere or remind…
Nearly a year ago, I first joined the Climate Action Leadership program at Royal Roads University for a Graduate diploma.Continue readingRethinking the Question of Climate Action Leadership (Unit 4)
Our MA in Climate Action Leadership cohort recently completed a course titled CALS 504: Modelling the Business Case for Climate Action. This was the last course before the completion of our Design Thinking Challenge for our year-long CALS 501: Leading Climate Action in Society course. The CALS 504 course made me think about our Design …
As we come to the end of our CALS501 design challenge, I reflect on the growth, transformation, and learnings that have come along the way. Each course has challenged me immensely, all with the clear objective of harnessing the necessary… Continue Reading →
