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Process Project -- Appropriate Questions to Consider -- Solar Power
In preparing for the Norfolk Leadership Transformational Learning Process Project a class participant provided the opportunity to provide comments that should help other participant.
Mike,
Thanks for responding to my earlier question on what topic area the group had chosen.
Solar power is a very interesting topic that we as a community need to learn more about and how it will impact us in the future. With the number of sunny days we have in Northeast Nebraska we should be taking advantage of opportunity. What are the are issues that will allow for a "convergence of change" and how will transformational learning enable us to make this change sooner?
From a transformational learning view point I pose the following questions the process project group might consider
- What questions might you ask community leaders that could seed the concept of incorporating solar power energy solutions into projects such as the Recreation and Water Park infrastructure proposal and the NorthFork River Development project? How could they connect and influence the citizens that may have an opportunity to vote on a bond issue?
- How can you make your project into a community collaborative project? What do think will be important for these leaders and citizens to get to the hmmm.... stage of accepting these renewable energy changes?
- What connections could you try and get citizens to make with solar power, these projects and other future trends as well as organizations outside the immediate area that could influence the implementation of these renewable energy solutions in our community?
- How should we engage the educational systems in our communities to realize the importance of renewable energy and their impact on our community and their lives?
- If you picked 5 individuals (or groups) in the community to present your project to who might they be, why, and what result would you expect from these individuals (and groups)? What relationships / connections could these individuals / groups have with each other and how might they be connected to individuals / groups outside the community?
- What other future trends and technologies would you expect will have a direct, indirect or even oblique impact on solar power and our community?
- What connections can you make with the increased emphasis on nanotechnology to help in solving numerous challenges, improved energy conversion, reduced manufacturing costs, and fuel cell storage that are related to solar power? How will solar power energy distribution be different from the current model?
- What would you state is your vision, mission, and purpose of your project in transformational terms and why might this be different from a traditional method of making these statements?
- What references will you be using and how will they be connected to transformational learning concepts?
Let me know if you have more questions related to this project.
Thanks for continuing this dialogue.
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