Below is information on Kathryn, The Centre and a wonderful poem on their site we needed to share with you. Get inspired today and every day. You do make a difference. Thank you for being part of the solution:
Our Founder
Kathryn A. Cooper, B.Sc., MBA, M.Ed. (Sustainability & Environment)
President & Chief Learning Officer
"I am here for the future of my children and all the children on the planet.
Each of us has our own reasons for caring about sustainability.
I am here because our children, youth and future generations urgently need our full commitment to transitioning to a sustainable way of "being" on this planet."
Kathryn Cooper is a committed sustainability practitioner, educator and strong proponent of "collective impact". Over the last several years she has had the privilege to work with companies like Dupont, Zerofootprint, WWF Canada, Partners in Project Green, Green Enterprise Ontario, Pinchin Environmental, Trillium Insurance and others on sustainability issues, best practices and renewable energy.
The Sustainability Learning Centre (SLC) is a training, networking and technology transfer hub designed to mobilize people and technology for sustainability in industrial, commercial and institutional sectors.
The Centre focuses on the development of practical "Green Core Competencies" and Whole Employee Engagement for eco-efficiency, eco-effectiveness and eco-restorative practices and technologies.
The Centre delivers sustainability focused professional development workshops to hundreds of people each year, through public and in-house programs instructor-led programs and E-Learning.
A Reflection
(The following is a poem by Tom Atlee and Joanna Macey from "Active Hope" by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone)
When you act on behalf
of something greater than yourself,
you begin
to feel it acting through you
with a power that is greater than your own.
This is grace.
Today, as we take risks
for the sake of something greater
than our separate individual lives,
we are feeling graced
by other beings and by Earth itself.
Those with whom and on whose behalf we act
give us strength
and eloquence
and staying power
we didn't know we had.
We just need to practice knowing that
and remembering that we are sustained
by each other
in the web of life.
Our true power comes as a gift, like grace,
because in truth it is sustained by others.
If we practice drawing on the wisdom
and beauty
and strengths
of our fellow human beings
and our fellow species
we can go into any situation
and trust
that the courage and intelligence required
will be supplied.
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