How Convergence, Creativity and Systems

Thinking have created an innovative process

which holds the potential to address the great
challenges we are facing

• Nicola Jones
• IVCO Conference 2007, Montreal
Key Drivers of TCW

• Convergence
• Caring/Quality
• Systems Thinking
 Convergence
(using the medium of access to
1 person
energy)
10 tonnes

10 people Converging World

10 tonnes
energy
11 people
20 tonnes
 Example of convergence
• TCW carbon flow model

• TCW / RSA Coffeehouse Challenge 2050

NOW

• UN Gold Star Communities Programme

TCW Model
UK INDIA

• Carbon reduction
programmes
• Participation in We generate renewable
local community energy in the developing
projects world
• Guidance on low
carbon lifestyles

and provide major

Carbon support to their
Information
Reduction and Services community projects
Projects (UK & (UK)
Overseas)
We bring carbon credits
back to the UK and ‘retire’
them from the
marketplace

DONATIONS

Donations are used

to fund carbon
reduction in our
target markets
 Contact Information

• www.theconvergingworld.org
• www.schumacherinstitute.org.
uk
• Tel 44 (0)117 903 1080
• Info@theconvergingworld.org
Quality/Care

• Intention/vision
• Ethics/empathy
• Openness
• Appreciation
 Systems Thinking
• Respects people and their needs
• Promotes creativity
• Requires considerable personal awareness
• Focuses upon relationships between things
rather than the things themselves
• Continuing inquiry into assumptions and
metaphors upon which our language is based
and how knowledge in the West is developed is
central
RSA Framework
• Intention
• Vision
• Quality/Care
• Openness
• Appreciation
What we already know we are
adding
• Deepening the inquiry
• Diversifying the actors
• Framework/Structure/
• Facilitation
• Business approach