Here are some ideas to increase sustainable behavior among Los Verdes' citizens:- Partner with the university to educate students on recycling and sustainability, who can then spread the word to the community. Students could volunteer to help with outreach.- Conduct a community survey to understand barriers to recycling and identify trusted community leaders to champion the cause. - Launch a friendly competition between neighborhoods to see who can recycle the most. Publicly recognize top performers.- Make recycling as convenient as possible by providing curbside bins and multiple drop-off locations. - Educate on what can/can't be recycled and common contamination issues. Aim to reduce items ending up in landfill.- In
The document discusses co-designing a city with its citizens through participatory governance. It provides demographic information about Gainesville, GA, which has a population of 126k, with 44% between ages 20-35. It notes some key statistics about the city's households and economy. It then outlines six new ways for the city to work with citizens, which include embracing shared purpose, being relational, adopting an entrepreneurial mindset, making processes modular, showing citizens their progress, and empowering citizens. It concludes by discussing next steps like aligning goals with resources, improving communication and collaboration, and enhancing technology.
Semelhante a Here are some ideas to increase sustainable behavior among Los Verdes' citizens:- Partner with the university to educate students on recycling and sustainability, who can then spread the word to the community. Students could volunteer to help with outreach.- Conduct a community survey to understand barriers to recycling and identify trusted community leaders to champion the cause. - Launch a friendly competition between neighborhoods to see who can recycle the most. Publicly recognize top performers.- Make recycling as convenient as possible by providing curbside bins and multiple drop-off locations. - Educate on what can/can't be recycled and common contamination issues. Aim to reduce items ending up in landfill.- In
Semelhante a Here are some ideas to increase sustainable behavior among Los Verdes' citizens:- Partner with the university to educate students on recycling and sustainability, who can then spread the word to the community. Students could volunteer to help with outreach.- Conduct a community survey to understand barriers to recycling and identify trusted community leaders to champion the cause. - Launch a friendly competition between neighborhoods to see who can recycle the most. Publicly recognize top performers.- Make recycling as convenient as possible by providing curbside bins and multiple drop-off locations. - Educate on what can/can't be recycled and common contamination issues. Aim to reduce items ending up in landfill.- In (20)
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Here are some ideas to increase sustainable behavior among Los Verdes' citizens:- Partner with the university to educate students on recycling and sustainability, who can then spread the word to the community. Students could volunteer to help with outreach.- Conduct a community survey to understand barriers to recycling and identify trusted community leaders to champion the cause. - Launch a friendly competition between neighborhoods to see who can recycle the most. Publicly recognize top performers.- Make recycling as convenient as possible by providing curbside bins and multiple drop-off locations. - Educate on what can/can't be recycled and common contamination issues. Aim to reduce items ending up in landfill.- In
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We embrace a
shared sense of
purpose
We’re relational, not
transactional
We adopt an
entrepreneurial
mindset.
We make it modular.
We show people
where they are in
the process.
We empower
citizens at every
interaction.
SIX NEW WAYS TO WORK
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21. what’s next?
● aligning community & operational
goals with resource allocation
● improving communication &
collaboration
● enhancing & embracing technology
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The town of Los Verdes’
recycling program has stalled.
25. >> Mayor Brian Johnson introduced residential recycling
when he came into office two years ago.
>> Los Verdes is not densely populated; recycling efforts
are expensive and energy intensive.
>> The state university, which is home to 10,000 students,
recycles 75% of its waste, the highest level of recycling in
town.
>> In an effort to accelerate success, Mayor Johnson has
created a project for our innovation teams.
Los Verdes Background
27. Given the background information of Los Verdes and
the goals for Mayor Johnson, which of the following
will lead to the best outcome for Los Verdes?
Increase participation in Los Verdes’
recycling program from 40% to 50%
Make Los Verdes the recognized green
leader by solving all of its current and future
environmental problems.
Increase sustainable behavior among Los
Verdes’ citizens.
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Everything has been created or designed for a purpose - an engine to power a vehicle, a vehicle to transport people and things to places, and roads to transport vehicles.
Likewise, a city is designed with a purpose. In fact, what is a city without its people.
This afternoon, I will share with you the journey undertaken by Gainesville over the past several months and how it is defining how we work.
To provide you greater insight into Gainesville, our city was established in 1869 and has grown to over 64 square miles. We’re located in North Florida uniquely centered between the hubs of Jacksonville, Orlando and Tampa and a short-hour drive to either coastline.
Using 2010 census data, we now have a community of around 126,000 people who choose to call Gainesville home.
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Median age is 24.9, not surprising as we are proud to host the University of Florida.
Higher density of this age group is around the University Context Area neighboring the urban core and to the SW of the city.
Conversely, our young professionals through seniors reside primarily around the periphery of the urban core and University Context Area
42% of our population is of non-caucasian descent
Our African-American citizens, representing 23% of our population, primarily reside on the Eastside of the city
However, our fastest growing immigrant population are of Asian or Hispanic descent, and more densely reside to the south and west of our core.
We have 51k households
38% of the households in Gainesville are occupied by homeowners and are more densely located in the NW and W parts of Gainesville and into the unincorporated area of the county
From a socio-economic perspective…
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In 2015, a group of community stakeholders representing a diversity of thought and backgrounds came together to ask is this where we want to be?
Is this our best Gainesville?
In December 2015, the City Commission adopted recommendations presented by the community through the Blue Ribbon Report.
So, since early 2016, the city of Gainesville has undertaken a transformative process.
We are striving to re-design the way in which we create and modify city policies, develop and implement internal procedures and processes, and provide services to the people of Gainesville.
Rather, we are aiming for all that we do to be done in a way which places the citizen at the center of our policies, our processes, and our services.
Play in present mode
I’d like to share with you a couple minutes from this Ted Talk from Simon Sinek, How great leaders inspire action
When referring back to Sinek’s concepit of the Golden Circle, Gainesville has found it’s why, it’s purpose
Again, I ask, what is a city without its people?
As stated by our partner, the University of Florida, who is concurrently developing big ideas to guide their strategic redevelopment
Preeminence...
How can we approach big challenges differently, so positive change is really evident in the lives of our citizens? How can we do what we do in new ways to turn our shared purpose into action.
As an organization, we are learning how to re-create what we do around our citizens’ experiences, to incorporate the human element into developing and changing government programs and services.
We are learning to observe and experiment with new ideas, and to fail and quickly try again.
How - design thinking approach for creating breakthrough change
So we will give an overview of the design thinking so that you can both visualize and participate in the process as Commissioners, Charters, staff and the community
In the first phase - Inspire- we collaboratively identify big issues or challenges. This step of defining the challenge is extremely important because it focuses the rest of our efforts.
Not every issue is a design challenge- basic tasks like computer maintenance or scheduling right of way mowing is important, but may not require the breakthrough innovation that we seek with design thinking. We utilize design thinking for issues that need a complete overhaul or new approach from the current state
Once we identify those challenges - we make observations of our citizens and users and try to better understand what they are experiencing. What would be typical is to identify a challenge and then offer solutions, so you can see how design thinking is different. We call these next steps observing people and forming insights.
The next phase is to Ideate - or to create ideas that address the challenge.
Here we bring thoughts to bear on how to build upon those insights by identifying specific areas that match Gainesville’s unique people, circumstances, programs, etc. In other words, we consider the context. We call that framing our opportunities.
In brainstorming we seek to encourage all ideas - we do not limit them or judge them - rather, we go for quantity and seek to build upon them. We work to prioritize based on things like feasibility as we move into the next phase.
In the last phase - Implementation- we actually try, on a small scale, some of the ideas that we brainstormed.
The goal here is to get quick feedback by making low cost investments in testing the ideas so that we know early on what may work, what may need to be tweaked, and what should be abandoned.
Before budgeting major expenditures, our goal is to
Over our last several months of facilitating listening sessions, both internally and externally, we have been hearing
a strong desire from our community to create breakthrough change around big issues like disparity, income equality, public safety, and quality of life
And operational issues like aging infrastructure and outdated technology
So, we are now working to identify the key big ideas both from a community and organization perspective and align this with what we do and how we make resource allocation decisions.
Using 2010 census data, we now have a community of around 126,000 people who choose to call Gainesville home.
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This is background information for Los Verdes’ residential recylcing program
Next we will ask you to help us identify what challenge we should focus on related to this recycing program
Read three options.
Discussion Within your groups, which do you think is a good design challenge? And why?
A common pitfall is either making the challenge too narrow or broad. #1 is too narrow - there is not enough room to explore the challenge. And we could also be measuring the wrong thing! #2 is too broad - with this you have no idea where to start.
Where as #3 identifies a population and some specific items to accomplish
The next step is that we would seek to interpret these facts
I’d like to share one of favorite videos as of late.
As eloquently stated by Dr. Seuss, “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are easy.”
We may all come from different places, bring different perspectives, and provide our citizens varying services and opportunities.
But are we all not here for the same purpose – to best serve the people of our city.
Together, let’s begin a movement.