DIG IN is a San Francisco Bay Area-based design and consulting firm dedicated to working with individuals, organizations and communities passionate about social change and building more sustainable communities.

We believe that however critical the issues are, we can’t solve the problems of the world if we don’t pay attention to ourselves, and our relationships with one another and the places we live and work.

DIG IN is an attempt to share this philosophy with people dedicated to or curious about building community, cultivating a sense of place and creating a more sustainable society. It is a way to share practices and perspectives—both innovative and time-honored—to create positive change in ourselves, our organizations and our communities.

Through a focus on sustainability, cultivating sense of place and restoring the civic ecosystem, DIG IN helps to create a path to a more humane culture and demonstrates ways in which we can move toward a way of being that is more whole ecologically, socially and politically. We are truly at a pivotal turning point, where individual and collective action must increasingly be directed toward the common good.

Odin Zackman founded DIG IN in 2004. Odin has fifteen years of experience in community and environmental education, organizational and leadership development, and facilitation and community design. Dedicated to building community on a local level, and connecting communities nationally and globally, Odin strives to link lessons from nature and working in community with building more effective organizations and efforts for social change. Odin has worked with a range of environmental and community development organizations and consulted widely on a range of issues with non-profit, public and private sector groups. He has worked on national environmental policy issues, in youth engagement, in community building and organizing, and in leadership development for social change.

Odin has trained extensively in facilitation, conflict resolution and permaculture and ecological design. He has offered workshops and classes around the country and holds degrees from Oberlin College in Politics and Environmental Studies (BA), Tufts University’s Agriculture, Food and Environment program (MS) and the University of California, Santa Cruz in Ecological Horticulture (certificate). He is also the recipient of a Salzburg Seminar fellowship on Environmental Policy and Public Dialogue.

For more on Odin’s background and writing, feel free to download a current CV, or visit the DIG IN blog.

DIG IN works to provide organizational development, leadership, community engagement and sustainability services in partnership with clients in the social, public, and private sector, including cross-sector collaboratives, community initiatives and multi-stakeholder groups.

Clients Include:
Alameda County, California
Americans for Nonsmokers Rights Foundation
California Regional Environmental Education Community (CREEC) Network
Center for Land-Based Learning
Center for Whole Communities
City of Sacramento
Community Focus
Conservation International
East Bay Community Foundation
The Environmental Leadership Program
Free Range Studios
Golden State Environmental Education Consortium
Leadership Learning Community
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
The Pachamama Alliance
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Reconnecting America
The River Center
Solar Living Institute
Southside Community Land Trust
Transportation for America Campaign
University of California, Berkeley
Urban Ecology
Urban Sprouts
West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project
WorldLink