SEED-SCALE – Community Change Available to All
In 1992, I co-chaired a small UNICEF task force; my co-chair was my father, Carl E. Taylor. Sharing such with one’s family is always a privilege, but this was especially because this “family business” extends across four generations as I have worked with my grandparents and now my children.
That small UNICEF task force evolved a very big idea: SEED-SCALE. This is a universal process that allows communities to shape locally site-specific solutions, using resources and connections that each community has. It offers to any community a process whereby life can be more just and lasting. SEED-SCALE can turn events already underway in positive directions.
More detail with explanation is found in books on this website, especially Empowerment on an Unstable Planet: From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). This book develops the theory. Another book gives the method plus case studies: Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures, 2nd Edition (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)
Beyond these resources on SEED-SCALE there is an interactive website: www.seed-scale.org. Also available to explain the approach are the videos below.
More detail with explanation is found in books on this website, especially Empowerment on an Unstable Planet: From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). This book develops the theory. Another book gives the method plus case studies: Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures, 2nd Edition (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)
Beyond these resources on SEED-SCALE there is an interactive website: www.seed-scale.org. Also available to explain the approach are the videos below.
