We are in the midst of a “macroshift”...

Ecologos Institute ◆ Toronto Regional Renaissance Collaboration

Are we heading for breadown?

After a period of instability,uncertainty, and growing discontent,

conflict degenerates into violence and

the established order breaks

down.

Source: Ervin Laszlo, Macroshift

Or will we choose Break!r"gh?

The mindset of a critical new mass of people evolves in time.

As the new culture takes hold,

an integrated world system emerges,

capable of launching development aimed at ensuring access

to the necessities of life

for all people in every part of the world.

Source: Ervin Laszlo, Macroshift

The determining factor

The evolution of

the dominant culture and consciousness - the way people’s values, views and ethics respond and change -

determine the outcome of the system’s chaos leap

(the way its developmental trajectory forks off).

Source: Ervin Laszlo, Macroshift

Sparks of hopeCritical Mass Engagement

Changing dominant mindset

Co-creating new

structures

Community leadership

Comprehensiveness

Participant Productions

Broad reach through distribution but limited depth of engagement.

Raises awareness and provokes thought and conversation in a non-threatening medium.

AshokaPrimarily focused on

developing social entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship

Through the work of the entrepreneurs

Implicit and encouraged

Growing with focus of entrepreneurship

Paul Hawken

Fragmented Fragmented Consultative basis only. Fragmented

Many individual projects

Fragmented Implicit Fragmented

Expo 67 Massive attractionOpened Canadians to

the world and the world to Canada

The Ecologos ResponseA community-led, awe-inspired initiative ...for a renaissance in sustainability, ...designed to occur in any region,...beginning in Toronto,...expanding to the world.

Toronto Regional Renaissance CollaborationRegional Collaboration

2007-2009Universarium FairSpring/Fall 2009

Renaissance Projects2009-2011

The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority and the Canadian Urban Institute conduct Discovery Meetings with network leaders, resulting in Community Action Meetings with interest groups, neighbourhood groups, and other sectors to apprise them of the project, elicit their feedback, and build participation and momentum.

leading to > > >

The Ecologos Institute mounts a three-part paradigm-shifting edutainment event at Ontario Place for 250,000 men, women, and children over three months:•Awe-inspiring, state-of-the-art, multi-media presentation in Cineplex (inspiration)•Shift Zones, where visitors come face-to-face interactively with what’s really possible to change our direction (vision)•Connect to Action, where visitors connect to and sign up with community groups making a difference in every aspect of sustainability (participation)

leading to > > >

Community Action Groups, bolstered and enlivened by the enthusiasm and commitment of a new core of volunteers generated through the Fair, undertake Pressure Point projects that shift the Toronto Region towards true sustainability . . .

leading to ∨ ∨ ∨

the Toronto Region demonstrating to the world how an urban region can be:•ecologically viable; •economically vital; &•socially equitable & inclusive.

“An initiative of global import”

Recognized July 25, 2006 by the World Wisdom CouncilWorld Wisdom Council founded by Ervin Laszlo and Mikhail Gorbachev

Sparks of hope - revisitedCritical Mass Engagement

Changing dominant mindset

Co-creating new

structures

Community leadership

Comprehensiveness

Participant Productions

Broad reach through distribution but limited depth of engagement.

Raises awareness and provokes thought and conversation in a non-threatening medium.

AshokaPrimarily focused on

developing social entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship

Through the work of the entrepreneurs

Implicit and encouraged

Growing with focus of entrepreneurship

Paul Hawken

Fragmented Fragmented Consultative basis only. Fragmented

Many individual projects

Fragmented Implicit Fragmented

Expo 67 Massive attractionOpened Canadians to

the world and the world to Canada

ECOLOGOSRenaissance

collaboration and Universarium broadly

engage the community

Universarium intentionally designed to take visitors from inspiration, through

vision, to participation

Regional collaboration surfaces projects

acted on at Universarium and

beyond.

Renaissance collaboration and projects entirely community-led.

Fully comprehensive approach to regional

sustainability transformation.

Making it happen.

“The future is not to be forecast, but created” ~Ervin Laszlo

World-class partners

Component Partners

Toronto Regional Collaboration

Universarium at Ontario Place

Renaissance Projects The community

Essential foundation

Efficacy of the processBased on 100 years of development in the field of systems scienceDeveloped initially through the input of 230 interviews with worthy advisors and a following 300 meetings for feedback and planning

Supporters of the visionEcologos International Advisory Council:

Don Edward Beck, Thomas Berry, Guy Dauncey, Jean Houston, David Korten, Ervin Laszlo, Miriam Therese MacGillis, John L. Petersen, Walter Pitman, Elisabet Sahtouris, John Seed, Brian Swimme, and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Financial supporters:Interface Inc., the Gordon Cheesbrough family, Katherine McCain, Richard W. Ivey, the Michael Young Family Foundation, the Northpine Foundation, the Catherine Donnelly Foundation, 20 religious congregations and 100 other donors

Development Plan

Phase 1: Operation Stepping StoneLaunch Toronto Regional Renaissance CollaborationSecure seed funding for Universarium Travelling Fair at Ontario PlaceSecure growth funding for Ecologos

Phase 2: Fair ForwardToronto Regional Collaboration launches Universarium Travelling Fair at Ontario Place in 2009Ecologos launches Renaissance Collaborations in other key regions

Phase 3: Track, learn, shareTrack, learn and share stories on regional Renaissance Projects with other regions

Operation Stepping Stone

TASK AREA BUDGET

Renaissance Collaboration & Public Relations

Fair Creation & Design

Fair Planning & Development

Internal & External Communications

Fund Raising & Special Events

Logistical Support

$ 65,000

$ 88,000

$ 53,000

$ 21,000

$ 53,000

$ 65,000

GRAND TOTAL $ 345,000

Once demonstrated, the Regional Renaissance Collaboration

will be available for replication, with local variation,

in other major urban regions of the world.

In the midst of the macroshift

the Ecologos response has been

recognized as

an initiative of global import.

Working with our world-class partners, we have created

the essential foundation for launching the Toronto Regional Renaissance Collaboration.

Ecologos

Today we seek funding partners for Operation Stepping Stone and further

collaboration partners in the Toronto Regional Renaissance Collaboration.

Appendicies

Supporting materials

Ecologos Board of DirectorsDuncan Holmes, Chair

President, ICA Associates

Marjorie Sharpe, DirectorPresident Sharpe & Associates

Mariam Quershi Gibson, Co-founderPresident, Aromesthetics

Ian Gilmour, Secretary, TreasurerPartner and Practice Leader, Business Architecture, Chartwell Inc.

James K. PatersonDirector, Resource Development, Toronto United Church Council

Dr. Ralph MartinDirector, Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada

Permanent advisors to the boardAllenna Leonard, PhD., the Complementary Set

Stan Gibson, Co-Founder, Ecologos Institute

Michael Lewkowitz, Founder, Igniter Incorporated

International Advisory CouncilDon Edward Beck

Author and speaker

Thomas BerryGeologian and author

Guy DaunceyAuthor and speaker

Jean HoustonAuthor and Co-founder, Foundation for Mind Research

David C. KortenFounder & President, People-Centered Development Forum

Ervin LaszloPresident, Club of Budapest

Miriam Therese MacGillisFounder, Genesis Farm

John L. PetersenFounder & President, The Arlington Institute

Walter PitmanElisabet Sahtouris

Evolution biologist, futurist, and author

John SeedDirector, Rainforest Information Centre

Brian SwimmeMathematical cosmologist and author

Mary Evelyn TuckerCo-Director, Forum on Religion and Ecology

The Toronto Regional Renaissance CollaborationThe Toronto & Region Conservation Authority, whose mission is to work with its partners to ensure that The Living City is built upon a natural foundation of healthy rivers and shorelines, green space and biodiversity, and sustainable communities.

The Canadian Urban Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in urban areas across Canada and internationally.

Lord Cultural Resources Inc., internationally respected planner of major cultural events including World Fairs.

Ontario Place, an internationally recognized presenter of outstanding attractions prominently situated on the Toronto waterfront

Participant Productions

Paul Hawken

Where are we now?

“The dominant social order and established values, worldviews, ethics and aspiration are

stressed and challenged,

placing society at the limit of its stability.”

~ Ervin Laszlo, Macroshift

How did we get here?

Hard technology innovations (tools, machines, operational systems) have irreversibly transformed

social and environmental relations bringing about, successively:

a higher level of resource production,faster growth in population,a growing societal complexity, and a growing impact on the natural environment.

How Ecologos began...

In 2000, an ordinary group of citizens establihsed a set of long-term objectives:

Educate broadly in the worldview of systems scienceBuild collaborative networks for transformationCatalyze transformation through educational entertainment events

Key AccomplishmentsThe Canadian Urban Institute and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority are co-convening the meetings that will create the Renaissance Collaboration in the Toronto RegionLord Cultural Resources, respected planner of major cultural installations including World Fairs, is devising the business and development plan covering all aspects of producing the Universarium Travelling Fair and mounting it at Ontario PlaceOntario Place has agreed to host the first instance of the Universarium Travelling FairThe Universarium Planning & Development Committee (UPDC) of the Ecologos Institute is a core group of 50 committed, very skilled volunteers working in five highly productive task teams (with a next voluntary orbit of 250 friends, supporters, and advocates).