The Cochrane Environmental Action Committee (CEAC) seeks to engage nearby residents on environmental awareness and action. It is an active group with many projects operating at a given time.
Alberta Acts has met with CEAC twice now to discuss a range of topics including leadership, organizational structure and how we connect with the environment.
October 12, 2010 meeting
Telling your story
- Why did you become engaged on environmental issues?
- How did you become engaged on environmental issues?
- Why did you 'join' an environmental group?
- Why did you join CEAC specifically?
- Why did you prioritize this above other interests competing for your time?
Why activists persist (based on Downtown and Weir's Persistent Pacifism: How Activist Commitment is Developed and Sustained)
- Personal gain
- Creative outlet
- Membership
- Organization
See Greg's blog on this topic.
How well do CEAC's activities...
- enable recruiting youth volunteers?
- enable recruiting adult volunteers?
- ensure CEAC retains volunteers?
- increase volunteers' sense of ownership?
- improve volunteers' organizational skills?
- increase volunteers' sense of personal gain?
- increase creative outlets for volunteers?
November 9, 2010 meeting
Connecting to the environment
Which object offers a symbol of why you became engaged in environmental issues?
Frames of action
Which of CEAC's activities fit into which frame of action?
Organizational Structure
What are the pros and cons of a top-down organizational structure?
What are the pros and cons of a web-like organizational structure?
How can CEAC's structure harness the best of these two examples of organizational structures?
Leadership
Select a photo of a leader. What do you consider to be one positive leadership attribute of this person? What do you consider to be one negative leadership attribute of this person?
