This is a wiki to support the continuation of the Taiwan Sustianibility group which was initiated during the BQ Conference's Open Space meeting, and held it's second meeting on November 30, 2008 at Hua Shan. The next tentative meeting date is December 13, 2008 from 10am-12pm, at Hua Shan cafe.
Members of this group include (but not limited to):
Neesha Wolf <neeshawolf@hotmail.com>,
Rick Yu <ut.rick.yu@gmail.com>,
Michael Boyden <michael@economist.com.tw>,
Elta Huang <eltahuang@hotmail.com>,
<yuju9249@yahoo.com>,
Gladys <gladys_fl@yahoo.com>,
Jessy Ren <jessy.ren@gmail.com>,
Robin Winkler <robin@wildatheart.org.tw>,
Marian Angele <marianberries@yahoo.com>,
<formosafrass@gmail.com>,
<sukwei_lin@yahoo.com.tw>,
Ted Yang <tedyang319@gmail.com>,
keli yen <keliyen8@gmail.com>,
jorie wu <jorie@cpyen.org>,
jane Lewis <janeelewis@gmail.com>
Please feel free to add your voice to this document as you like.
Notes from our Nov. 30th meeting are as follows:
Jason: Regarding creating a system, it’s best to follow nature. Which is organic, non vertical, don’t try to force the process into a tight streamlined hierarchy, just let it be organic.
Robin: I think we need to be creating organizations that are efficient to go head-to-head with multinatinals who are destroying the environment . My Proposal: let’s find outwhat’s out there & create a “Taiwan sustainability index report”; with or without categories. It would be a bibliography of environmental & social issues about Taiwan.
Objectives: 1) Put Tiawan on the map of environmentalism in the world. To let people know what’s going on in Taiwan; 2) Compile this in Chinese so that locals can learn & utilize it (The problem is that the bulk of int’l environmental information is in English). Eventually we’ll create a zillion jobs for translators.
Jane: I can be the “translator oil”
Neesha: Next meeting tentative date: Saturday, Dec. 13th, 10am-12.
