JoAnne Fleming
Women make or influence 80% of consumer decisions. JoAnne raises your awareness of the interconnections of all life, the impacts of your choices, and the critical need to embrace change. When people shift their thinking about how they SEE the world, they change how they TREAT the world, and how they shop!
For more than three decades JoAnne has been involved with environmental organizations in Canada and at the United Nations (New York) as a speaker, coordinator, moderator, educator and advocate,
JoAnne is a graduate of London Teachers College, Queens University (Sociology), Ryerson University (Landscape Architectural Technology), and an avid Lifelong Learner. She shares her insights as a college instructor of Environmental Concerns, researcher, and author of her book-in-progress.
From her connection to nature as a young girl on her family farm, to attending United Nations Environmental Summits, JoAnne has nurtured a deep and committed relationship with the environment and its many pressing issues. She will take you on an in-depth tour of nature's delights and wonders, raise your awareness and appreciation of the value of nature's FREE services, and empower YOU to make a difference.
According to the Department of Trade & Industry, London (England):
"We are now going through a sustainability revolution that will rival the agricultural and industrial revolutions in the way it will transform society."
Learn how to utilize the proven principles of The Natural Step, and Earth Charter programs to respect, protect and nurture the environment and the community while maintaining profitability.
Learn how to join the Sustainability Revolution. Get inspired, and learn how you can motivate your business, community, family, and leave a legacy of hope for future generations! Taking responsibility changes everything. Our kids are depending on us.
Women make or influence 80% of consumer decisions. JoAnne raises your awareness of the interconnections of all life, the impacts of your choices, and the critical need to embrace change. When people shift their thinking about how they SEE the world, they change how they TREAT the world, and how they shop!
For more than three decades JoAnne has been involved with environmental organizations in Canada and at the United Nations (New York) as a speaker, coordinator, moderator, educator and advocate,
JoAnne is a graduate of London Teachers College, Queens University (Sociology), Ryerson University (Landscape Architectural Technology), and an avid Lifelong Learner. She shares her insights as a college instructor of Environmental Concerns, researcher, and author of her book-in-progress.
From her connection to nature as a young girl on her family farm, to attending United Nations Environmental Summits, JoAnne has nurtured a deep and committed relationship with the environment and its many pressing issues. She will take you on an in-depth tour of nature's delights and wonders, raise your awareness and appreciation of the value of nature's FREE services, and empower YOU to make a difference.
According to the Department of Trade & Industry, London (England):
"We are now going through a sustainability revolution that will rival the agricultural and industrial revolutions in the way it will transform society."
Learn how to utilize the proven principles of The Natural Step, and Earth Charter programs to respect, protect and nurture the environment and the community while maintaining profitability.
Learn how to join the Sustainability Revolution. Get inspired, and learn how you can motivate your business, community, family, and leave a legacy of hope for future generations! Taking responsibility changes everything. Our kids are depending on us.
Taking Responsibility Changes Everything - Our Kids Are Depending On Us
We do so much for our kids or we certainly try! Interactive activities invite you to idenitfy the values you consider most important. Then you are challenged to determine whether you are really living them. Your Kids are watching.
With Mind Mapping and other group activities, create a workable plan to implement more sustainable practices that recognize the need for a lighter ecological footprint and hopefully create a better future for your kids.
The Other BIG "C" - The High Price of Convenience
Many fear the Big "C" Cancer.
However, you make countless choices based on the other Big "C" "Convenience." Explore some of the real costs of convenience to your health, and our planet.
Perhaps the most convenient way is not always the right way any more! What are 'right choices' when one moves past immediate gratification and the most conveneint.
Consumer trends are changing. What are your options? Interactive workshop activities explore the reasons for your...
The Aisle Less Traveled - Alternatives to Retail Therapy
Who needs all that STUFF?
Have you ever asked yourself WHY you shop? Learn how to meet many of those needs in more Earth and Community Friendly ways.
Learn how to reduce your debt, have more meaningful relationships, more fulfillment, stronger safer communities AND a healthier environment.
Using proven principles from The Natural Step, Earth Charter and the Transition Town Movement, many people are already changing how they see their choices and changing their...
How to Holiday Shop at Home Without a Mouse
Take a walk around your home a look at all those impulse purchases, bargains and treasures you never use. With new eyes see gift giving opportunities. Canadian household debt has reached new heights. With the holiday season fast approaching, plan a 'Home Holiday' with home sourced and homemade gifts. Even if you can afford to do all that shopping the Earth cannot afford to continue to provide her limited resources for so much Stuff!
How to Reframe Your Future
We choose our frames more often by default than design.
In the past, purpose and meaning for most people was determined by their relationship to nature, and to their faith/church. Today many people try to find purpose and meaning with their technology and their accumulation of 'Stuff.'
Identify your real values and learn how to live by them by redistributing your time, money and energy. Learn how to reduce your additiction to technology distraction, stress and debt....
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