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SUSTAINABILITY PERSPECTIVES: #5: The TNS Interview This is the fifth in our series of articles describing the Sustainability Visioning project that SaskFlax is working on.
So, I got started and made my notes in preparation for the interview. It seemed strange to be on the other end of the interview relationship. It’s usually me asking the questions, but this time it would be the other way around. For some reason I felt a bit nervous before hand, and I wasn’t sure why – sort of like I would feel before a test even though I knew there would be no right or wrong answers. However, Beckie and Pong were both very friendly and it was only a few moments before I felt at ease with them. With some of the questions I may have carried on just a little to long – for example my thoughts on sustainability! And there were other questions that, given my position with SaskFlax, I wasn’t really qualified to answer, and that was fine. Mostly I wanted to stress that I was really looking forward to the process - the information, the on line learning, the follow-up conference calls and our meeting in Saskatoon. When all of the interviews were completed we began the next phase of the program – the independent E-learning. Our email from SaskFlax indicated that prior to us coming together in Saskatoon when we would be “focusing on our industry and developing some strategies for the next two years [we needed to do] some ‘homework’ in order to be ready for that session. Everybody was to come into that meeting with a good understanding of what was meant by ‘sustainability’ and the framework we’d be working from. This involved working through [The Natural Step] on-line course to become familiar with the terms and model for sustainable development.” On-line learning, here I come... Continue to next article in the series... |
