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Elizabeth Sheehan, the co-founding champion and now president of Climate Smart Business Inc , is leading an exciting webinar on the evolution and scaling of a unique community based approach to carbon reduction.  Organized as a B-Corp which blends non-profit and private ownership, Climate Smart is a social enterprise focused on engaging small and mid–size businesses to reduce their carbon foot print through energy, waste and transportation efficiencies.  Their story from idea to prototype to piloting their package of services is joined up with a remarkable scaling of their carbon reduction impacts in B.C. Partnerships with municipalities have been an important feature of their approach.

About Climate Smart:

Having delivered their 100th training cohort and within reach of their initial 1 million tonnes carbon under management target, Climate Smart is now considering other key issues:

• how to expand their success into other markets
• how to structure partnerships in other jurisdiction
• financing options
• how new knowledge gained as a result of market development can positively impact carbon reduction efforts up and down supply chains and the realized impacts to the rest of the economy

Date and Time: June 18th, 9:00- 11:00AM Pacific Time

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These key issues and others will be brought up throughout our webinar. We hope you can join us for the presentation!

Speakers: Tom Kelly and Liz Weaver
 Location: via conference call
 Date: Thursday, June 27th, 2013 - 11:55am -  1:00 pm, ET  

 Details: Tom Kelly, a key thought-leader at Tamarack's 2013 CCI: Accelerating Impact <http://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/cci.html>  is renowned for his ground-breaking evaluation of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's ten-year community change initiative Making Connections using the Theory-of-Change methodology.  Making Connections is an initiative that focuses on developing family economic success in several communities across the United States.  Join Tom and Liz Weaver for this tele-learning and discover more about why the Theory of Change methodology is well suited for comprehensive collective impact initiatives; and, how it can be harnessed as a practice to accelerate shared learning.  Tom will also profile more about his current evaluation work as the Vice President for Knowledge, Evaluation and Learning for the Hawai'i Community Foundation <http://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org> .    

Speaker: Mark Cabaj  
 Location: via conference call
 Date: Thursday, June 13th, 2013 - 11:55am -  1:00 pm, ET  
 Details: Join in this exciting free tele-learning with Mark Cabaj as he shares how to plan and evaluate policy change.
 
Mark Cabaj is a leading thinker on developmental evaluation and policy change.  He is a Tamarack Associate and regular facilitator of Evaluating Community Impact and the Communities Collaborating Institute. In addition to his work as the chief of Here To There Consulting, Mark is a dynamic speaker and community leader.  This will be a wonderful opportunity to learn more about planning and evaluating policy change.
There will be an opportunity for questions towards the end of the interview.  Do register for this learning opportunity, even if you cannot attend you will receive a follow up email with a link to the full interview.

Speakers: Adam Kahane and Paul Born  
 Location: via conference call
 Date: Thursday, May 30th, 2013 - 11:55am -  1:00 pm, ET 

Join Adam Kahane, key thought-leader at Tamarack's 2013 CCI: Accelerating Impact for a dialogue about how his experiences engaging leaders with diverse - and at times conflicting - perspectives to work together effectively on complex social challenges. Learn how and why processes like Change Labs and Transformative Scenario Planning are proving to be effective in creating accelerated impact on social change efforts that span a wide variety of issue areas and scales.

Despite the increasing growth and attention to farmers markets, CSAs, local food box programmes, etc., alternative food initiatives geared towards local production and consumption, many of which emerge from the social economy, remain minor players when contrasted with the conventional food system. A key challenge is how to scale-up alternative food initiatives so that they have a greater transformational impact in the larger agri-food system and also serve as a catalyst for broader societal change towards a sustainable and strong social economy.

The case studies examined in this webinar highlight the opportunities and challenges in scaling-up food relocalization without sacrificing commitment to social, economic and environmental values and goals. We suggest the need to focus attention equally on building physical infrastructure and capacity (production, storage, distribution, retail) whilst also investing in social infrastructure and capacity (coalition-building, partnerships, clustering) required for a robust and resilient local food movement. 

We hope to initiate a discussion about the challenges and tensions between pragmatic and transformational approaches to issues of food security, food sovereignty, food justice and sustainability.

Discussion highlights will include:

• How to scale-up alternative food initiatives so that they have a greater transformational impact in the larger agri-food system
• How can alternative food systems serve as a catalyst for broader societal change towards a sustainable and strong economy?
• Challenges and tensions between pragmatic and transformational approaches to issues of food security, food sovereignty, food justice and sustainability

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This year’s ACE Institute will feature speakers discussing innovation in cooperative research, education and development from not just North America, but Latin America as well.  You can find a preliminary agenda listing speakers and topics here. Click on “REGISTER NOW!” to register for the Institute.

The 2013 ACE Institute will be held at the Verdanza Hotel in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico. Hotel reservations will need to made separate from Institute registration.  You can make hotel reservations here.  Make sure you enter 'ACE' in the promotion ‘Group Code’ to receive the $115 ACE discounted room rate.

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