A very exciting opportunity just came up.
We are looking for two people—women/men with an interest in a sustainability-oriented career; college graduates or career-changers—who will take part in a 6 month, transformational learning, doing, creating experience.
The objective will be to create and begin to implement a plan to transform the sustainability of the Welsh food system as a first step for creating a model for bringing about such transformation around the world.
Creating a Sustainable Food System for Wales
6 Month Internship
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Transforming the food system is a key leverage point in addressing today’s global challenges—climate change, peak oil, food security, poverty, social justice.
EOS* and the TYF* are teaming up to offer two six-month internships as part of the Do Programme in which motivated graduates or career-changers with professional experience will:
- Take a central role in developing a plan for achieving carbon neutrality and self-sufficiency of the Welsh food system by 2030,
- Amplify their ability to catalyze social and environmental change by expanding their range of skills, knowledge, and experience.
This project will mesh with a broader initiative aimed at uniting everyone in Wales–members of the public, industry, and government–behind achieving national sustainability. The aim will be to create a model that can motivate similar projects in other nations.
Interns will:
- Research the changes required to deliver carbon neutrality and self-sufficiency to the Welsh food system.
- Investigate the barriers to change and formulate means to overcome those obstacles.
- Organize and undertake a broad multi-stakeholder consultation engaging all sectors of the public and industry, and the agricultural community, as well as NGOs, government bodies, and sustainability experts.
- Articulate a consensus master plan for bringing the Welsh food system to self-sufficiency and carbon neutrality by 2030, which will include practical programmes engaging the public, industry and government in making the changes needed to ensure a bright sustainable future for Wales.
- Develop a communication and education plan mobilizing awareness of the proposed programme, capturing the public imagination and inspiring community wide support and participation.
The goal will be to present the completed plan to the public and to the Welsh Assembly Cabinet Ministers and business leaders at TYF’s Hay on Earth event at the Hay Festival in May 2010, as a first step toward enrolling Wales-wide engagement in the plan.
Interns’ achievement and personal development will be supported by:
- The unique, holistic environment of the Do Programme, located in St. Davids (see attached description),
- Regular access to a team of leaders in sustainability, including leading scientists, authors and prominent spokespeople (see bios below), all practical assistance required to support building a plan capable of delivering lasting change.
To apply, please send CV and covering letter to jfagan@earthopensource.org.
*EOS Trust was recently founded to use open source collaboration to engage communities—individuals, farmers, corporations, governments and universities—in projects to achieve breakthrough advances that help feed humanity, increase equity, support self-reliance and preserve the Earth.
*The Do Programme is sponsored by TYF, howies and the Do Lectures to create an inspiring and enabling platform for people passionate about change to makes plans, take action and make progress
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The Do Programme
Making change happen
The Do Programme was created in 2008 to bring together TYF’s insights from 23 years of innovation and leadership in adventure with the passion and knowledge for change and action that underpins the Do Lectures. The programme is sponsored by TYF and howies.
The Do Programme is a six month supported experience of research, exploration and action learning that helps committed Doers focus their efforts on areas of work that stir passion and action. The Do Programme has sustainability at its heart, and includes extensive work on resource depletion, climate change, peak oil, food security, social justice, and helps participants develop the confidence, skills and knowledge needed to make an impact.
The two strands of the Do Programme can be pursued individually or together:
Do Adventure: researching and developing experiences of learning through nature and adventure to transform the way that people understand play, risk and action. Understanding comes through applied learning work with adventure learners, families, youth groups, community groups, business and government.
Do Change: gearing up the skills, knowledge and experience to accelerate social and environmental change through the development and implementation of practical projects around chosen specialist areas such as climate action, food, energy, engagement or wellness. Develop outcome-led projects that integrate human-centered and Triple Top Line approaches for whole-systems benefit.
Costs of participation in the Do Programme are covered by sponsor organisation’s use of adventure equipment is free. Accommodation and food costs are not included. A combination of short taught sessions, individual research, group work, experiential exercises and action learning create learning that is captured digitally by students via blogs and web applications.
The winter 2009 Do Programme runs for 6 months from November 2nd through to April 30th 2010. The summer 2009 Do Programme runs starts on 10 May 2010.
For further information, call Ross Beese on 01437 721611, ross.b@tyf.com
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Bios
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John Grant
John Grant is the author of 4 bestselling books on new frontiers in marketing, media and innovation. His latest The Green Marketing Manifesto came out in 2007 & was named Environmental Book of the Year by the UK Book Industry in 2008. John also featured in the Conversation with Green Gurus book by Mazur and Miles (Wiley, 2009). John's next book Co-opportunity (Wiley, Jan 2010) is about social networks, social change and sustainability. John's recent consulting clients have included the UK Government (ACTONCO2), Cisco, The Co-operative bank, The Design Council, The Guardian, innocent drinks, IKEA, ING, i-Team (a local government initiative), O2, Philips, SSE, Unilever and numerous social ventures. John is also a prolific speaker, writer for publications (including the FT), blogger, awards judge and commentator. He is an associate of Forum for the Future. John has been involved in efforts to integrate sustainability and marketing since the early 2000s. John also has substantial experience of new media and innovation, having worked with pioneering internet businesses in their formative years including Napster, Amazon and K-World (biggest funded media start-up in Europe, 2001). A number of John's client projects (for instance Cisco, IKEA and The Design Council) and many of the social ventures John has been advising have been attempting to fuse sustainability goals with web 2.0 platforms. John is an experienced company director, having co-founded the award-winning socially aware ad agency St Luke's in the mid 1990s; and having been a non-executive director of a number of high profile organisations including Ministry of Sound and Onzo (a international design award winning - and heavily funded - UK cleantech company).
Book endorsements:
“A much needed contribution to the practice of marketing” Professor Zaltman, Harvard Business School
Voted in top ten business books of the year by Amazon
“an excellent roadmap…for green to become mainstream” Joel Makower
“radical thinking that cuts across your business as a whole” VP of Marketing, Sony
“An incredibly timely book” Jonathan Porritt
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Andy Middleton
Andy is a social entrepreneur and environmentalist with a passion for exploring and blurring the boundaries between eco design, smart business, sustainability and adventure.
His background encompasses extreme sports, four decades of surfing and work in some of the most challenging environments on the planet. Experiences as a sports coach, adventurer, environmentalist, entrepreneur and activist have combined into a potent spring of ideas, creativity and energy for change.
Andy is Founder Director of the TYF Group www.tyf.com , a business dedicated to helping people ‘think, do & play’ their way to smarter choices and stronger commitments for a safe, just future. TYF’s adventure guides take around 15,000 people every year to play in wild nature, creating opportunities for personal growth, environmental awareness and excitement. He is a Council Member of Countryside Council for Wales , a Board Member of Cynnal Cymru-Sustain Wales www.sustainwales.com and works on part time secondment to the Welsh Assembly as a climate change adviser.
He works as a facilitator, speaker and change agent with business and government organisations, with clients including The Guardian, American Express, Body Shop, Sony and Reed Elsevier.Panasonic organisation development and sustainability consultant, facilitator and speaker. Andy’s engagements also include frequent media, web and broadcast commentary, and he is the author of five books.
Andy’s ‘main events’ include the Do Lectures which he co-runs with howies co-founder David Hieatt, and the Hay on Earth, one of the UK’s foremost sustainability action events.
Andy lives with his adventurous family in a self-build eco house overlooking the waves and cliffs of the Atlantic. When he find time, he blogs at http://ecosapiens.squarespace.com and at http://doblog.tumblr.com/
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Paul Skinner, MA (Oxon), Chartered Marketer
Paul is taking a central role in the development and co-ordination of the EOS’s launch and growth strategy, based on proven competence in business development, marketing and strategic activities in a global context. Paul speaks fluent English, Spanish and French and currently lives in the UK.
Previous Professional Positions:
2008-9
- Global ID Group: Vice President of Marketing and Business Development.
2002-2007
- Darwin Technology International Ltd: Business Development Director.
- Co-operwrite Ltd: Managing Director.
- Freelance consulting: Sole practitioner.
1999 to 2002
- L’Oreal. (Paris): Global Project Manager for the Kerastase Nutritive brand.
1997 to 1998
- L’Oreal (Madrid): Product Manager.
- L’Oreal (Paris): Assistant Product Manager.
- Shell (South of France): Logistics Manager.
Education and training:
- Harvard Business School: “Launching New Ventures” program on innovation and entrepreneurship.
- Chartered Institute of marketing: Professional Postgraduate Diploma, Chartered Marketer.
- Oxford University: MA (Oxon) Modern Languages.
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John Fagan
John Fagan, Ph.D. was an early voice in the scientific debate on genetic engineering and genetically engineered food and during the last 15 years has become a champion for food purity, safety, security, nutrition and sustainability around the world. He is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on GMO testing and non-GMO certification and has made important contributions to developing certification programs that support the food and agricultural industries in adopting sustainable practices to deliver safer, more nutritious and more ethical products.
Beginning in 1994, Professor Fagan took an ethical stand, publicly urging biomedical and agricultural scientists to take safer, more productive research directions. He called for scientists and government policy-makers to de-emphasize high-tech approaches such as genetic engineering and to focus on more natural methods of prevention in medicine and the use of sustainable agricultural methods that avoid petroleum-based chemicals and genetically engineered seeds. He underscored these warnings by returning a $613,882 grant to the National Institutes of Health and declining other grant awards totaling more than $1.25 million. These grants had been awarded to support research that would have contributed indirectly to initiatives such as germ-line genetic engineering of humans.
Subsequently, Dr. Fagan redirected his research to develop, evaluate and implement sustainable approaches in agriculture and food production. In particular, he pioneered the development of innovative testing and certification technologies to verify food purity, quality and authenticity, and to assure transparency and sustainability in the global food system. These have been made available to governments, industry, and citizens through the Global ID Group, which includes Genetic ID, Cert ID and FoodChain Global Advisors. These technologies include DNA tests for genetically engineered foods, the first certification program for Non-GMO foods, and the internationally recognized ProTerra Certification Program, which evaluates and verifies corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability in the food and agricultural sectors.
Recently, Dr. Fagan has co-founded EOS, Earth Open Source, an organization dedicated to an open source, commons-based approach to achieving a world-sustaining food system. EOS uses open source collaboration to engage individuals, farmers, corporations, universities, communities, and governments—in programs to achieve breakthrough advances that help feed humanity, increase equity, support self-sufficiency and preserve the Earth. Initial programs focus on the following:
an open source seed program designed to restore the seed commons that has been the foundation and engine for progress in humanity’s food production system since farming began,
co-creating national and regional level programs for food self-sufficiency, local food production,
developing “food 2.0” programs that create the transparency in the food system that will enable consumers to participate actively and directly in determining the quality and specific characteristics of the food products offered in the marketplace.
Dr. Fagan’s expertise is sought by industry leaders and government decision-makers, scientists, and the public, to whom he has presented hundreds of lectures around the world in the last 20 years.
Earlier, Professor Fagan conducted biomedical research at the US National Institutes of Health and at Maharishi University of Management, examining molecular mechanisms in carcinogenesis and molecular mechanisms by which environmental contaminants influence the physiology. Professor Fagan holds a Ph.D. in molecular biology, biochemistry, and cell biology from Cornell University.
