Why do I do this? How do we get motivated and stay there? How do we ignite passion in others? How do we infuse teams with spirit – create energy and vitality in meetings? (Now passion becomes a practical matter.) * Might it make people more passionate about LEED if it were more regionally relevant? * Maybe the potency can come from creating a “movement”: thrashing out important issues with leadership and passion.
* Declaration of Independence was just a document—but it ignited passions in the early colonists. Passion reminds us that more is possible in our everyday work.

What is the nature of the change needed?

• Deeper understanding of natural systems (including people) on site and their evolution.
• This will help us understand if we heading in the right direction. What is good? What strategies will work?

Sharing this understanding helps bring clients along, gets them interested.

What is involved in understanding a place?

• Spending time on the site to connect with it, but… you can be in a place a long time and still not feel that you understand it.
• A continuous process of seeking understanding.
• Understanding can and should be both rational/intellectual (“knowledge”) and experiential (“understanding”).
• Understanding is enhanced by meditative time in a place.
• How far do you go in working to understand a place? What is the appropriate balance between seeking understanding and moving forward with a project? How do you bound the search? What is the source of limits for it?

How do we create a demand for this level of understanding of place--a “movement”? * Need a different type of education (experience-based) and communication. * Need a call to values. LEED is changing the market but is missing a link to values. (This hampers its ability to pump up enthusiasm.) All acknowledge that nothing has transformed the market like LEED. How do we harness that energy to go further? “It’s not about the points.” * Great movements create a vision of where they’re going, often expressed as a sound bite.

Threads running through discussion of “nature of change needed” include: * Ethics-based action is needed as opposed to economics-based action (though we aren’t really making economic-based decisions now).

• Care for health and value/vitality of all living things
• Phasing out fossil fuels
• Climate change
• Survival of our species (or whole planet?)

• A spirit-based movement, tapping into the creative and intuitive.
• Understanding of living systems.
• Mind-set/ world view.
• Need to move faster than one person or project at a time.

A Proposal: Establish model centers in every region to demonstrate what can be done when values, spirit, and place are given priority and regionally appropriate solutions are developed. Centers would be educational and could also lead to epiphanies when people see and experience what we have been talking about.

The building industry is unusual in that it lacks many aspects of other industries and this might be hampering our ability to move forward, such as: * R&D * TQM * Feedback loops (could LEED provide these?) * “Return” capability (can’t take it back if you don’t like it) * Accountability * Vertical integration (“Change” might mean behaving more like an industry.)

LEED has created a movement but has hit a wall – it is missing the link to values. Suggestions for allowing LEED to live up to its potential: * Change some credits to prerequisites * Performance must be validated * Performance metrics that make sense *Add user satisfaction * Feedback loops.