Straight Talk: Your Wisdom Requested: Beyond Bromides - Truths and Pathways for a Sustainable Pittsburgh Region - Sustainable Pittsburgh
Straight Talk: Your Wisdom Requested: Beyond Bromides — Truths and Pathways for a Sustainable Pittsburgh Region
Posted on August 3, 2017 by Carol Pan
Let’s endeavor to go deep to identify the overarching speed bumps and points of acceleration. What is undeniable, that needs to be addressed in order to progress? What are our greatest advantages to be built upon? The answers may be elusive but need to be identified, debated, and elevated as regional priorities. With the two lists determined, the next step will be to consider what is ripe to be done to further mitigate the challenges and accentuate the strengths along systems-level leverage points for positive change.
Thanks in advance for sending along your insights to info@sustainablepittsburgh.org. Consider this format: A. What are the region’s greatest systems-level assets*? What factors protect the given asset, and what factors put it in jeopardy? B. What are the greatest systems-level points of adversity*? What factors perpetuate and what factors mitigate?
All comments will remain confidential. Sustainable Pittsburgh will report back the consolidated work in a future issue of Sustainable Pittsburgh Insider and also share the body of work with regional planning initiatives underway.
* Identifying systems-level influences can be challenging. It tends to be easier to identify symptoms than the factors underlying the status quo. To arrive at the highest level of the issue, keep asking the question, “what is the larger driver or force at play here?”