The E4AC/L4AC model brings together community capacity building, roundtable processes, ongoing sustainability learning in communities and youth leadership & mentoring into collaborations with local government.

In June 2008, Ethos was awarded a grant from the Commonwealth Department of Water, Environment, Heritage and the Arts to develop and pilot a sustainability engagement and learning program that operates in collaboration with local government, business, community, youth and education sectors.  Learning4AChange and the overarching and interrelated Engaging4AChange programs (E4AC/L4AC) have their genesis in the earlier Ethos Foundation roundtable programs such as “Leading for the Future”  and have been in development, with significant in kind support from the Social Action Office and project co-ordinator Angela Ballard since February 2008.  E4AC addresses the critical need to bring communities into deep dialogue about the convergences of climate change and peak oil and what these will mean for their communities.  In the 07/08 year the focus has been on concept design and relationship building for developing partnerships with councils and communities in the SEQ region.

With funds from the Dept of Environment, Water, Heritage and Arts now in hand the design and development of the learning circle materials and workshop and roundtable processes components are underway and we expect to roll out three programs in the 08/09 year.

“The significant problems we face in life cannot be solved at the level of thinking that created those problems”

Albert Einstein