Russ Purvis

Places:

 Global
 Canada

Interest Areas:

 1. Education & Communication
 1.1 Awareness and behavior change
 1.2 Life skills & values-based framework
 1.3 Wide and deep network of educational leaders
 1.5 Train communications & education professionals in sustainability
 2. Energy
 2.1 Mass Communication
 2.3 Feed-in Tariff
 2.4 Access to Financing
 2.5 Forest Conservation & Tree Planting
 2.6 Enabling Institutional Investors with risk guarantees
 2.9 Access to modern energy services for the rural poor
 3. Ecosystems
 3.1 Reduce deforestation
 3.2 Increase carbon in soil
 3.3 Convert to ecological agriculture and aquaculture
 3.4 Restore degraded lands
 3.5 Realignment of land use and occupation
 3.7 Local food production and consumption
 3.8 Universal environmental sanitation
 4.1 Full cost accounting
 4.3 Shift subsides from over consumption
 4.5 Democratic governance of economy
 4.7 Shift from debt-based currency
 5.1 World spirituality based on mutual values
 5.4 Catalyzes interdependence of earth & human family
 5.7 New story of success. Economics serve sustainable prosperity
 6.1 Commitment to change
 6.4 Share information / Knowledge cross disciplines
 6.5 Globally acceptable monitoring / tracking systems
 6.7 Specific capacity building
 6.8 Recognition / awards for innovative actions
 7. Values & Lifestyles
 7.1 Mass & Digital media demonstration of new values and lifestyles
 7.2 Ethical Advertising
 7.3 Mass & Digital Media Education Campaign
 7.4 Right to safety
 7.6 Empowerment networks for personal support
 7.7 Restorative justice with community governance of conflict resolution
 8. Infrastructure
 8.2 Public transport
 8.3 Incentive to green business
 8.4 Better designed public transportation
 8.5 Better sized vehicles for heavy weight transport in cities
 8.7 Social generation of renewable energy
 8.8 Use rain water
 8.9 Efficiency of civil construction
 9.2 Inquire into purpose & surface assumptions before acting
 9.3 Methods for addressing complex problems
 10.2 Power of media to influence institutional powers and leaders
 10.3 Teaching of sustainable ethics in schools
 10.4 Critical thought about media in communication/media schools
 10.9 Communicating sustainable life styles
 11. Human security
 11.1 Redefinition of the commons and social contracts
 11.2 Disaster risk & vulnerability reduction
 11.3 Equitable, sustainable, adaptation, commmunity empowerment
 11.5 Reduction of extreme poverty and recognition of equity issues
 11.6 Strategies & policies for dealing with refugees & migrants
 11.8 Legal empowerment of the poor
 11.9 Good governance, reduced corruption

Sectors:

 Agriculture
 Civil society
 Education
 Electricity Generation and Supply
 Energy
 Environment/ecology
 First Nations
 Justice
 Professional association
 Waste
 Water
 Youth

Roles:

 Arts and Culture
 Business
 Consultant
 Education
 Entrepreneurship
 Facilitator
 Media
 Science
 Spiritual
 Strategy

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