Developing Beyond Sustainability

Problem: Sustainable development has been discussed world-wide for decades but the problems, mischievously keep getting worse. Could we have been missing something big, maybe huge? The recent documentary Blindspot (http://www.blindspotdoc.com/) shows how the most basic assumptions about our future are wrong. How wrong? It is as if modern civilisation has got stuck in reverse gear, with economics that systematically, relentlessly messes things up.  Millions of...

Action: 1.  Notice the blindspot.  Notice that we've been trying to solve global problems with the same thinking that caused them. Do problems really become more manageable when tackled separately, here and there, a bit at a time? Don't get so distracted fiddling with pieces of the puzzle that the big picture is ignored.  For example our struggles to recycle a bit more have masked the ease with which all resources could be rescued to help our economy and planet. When we grieve about the latest armed ...

Problem: This LOCALLY DRIVEN SOLUTION PROCESS is NON ISSUE SPECIFIC.   Target issues may include but  are not limited to POVERTY, CLIMATE CHANGE, PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES, ENVIRONMENTAL SCARCITY/ DEVASTATION. Whether fighting AIDS in Zimbabwe, saving rain forests in Senegal, or building healthy, sustainable communities in the USA; "7 Stages to Sustainability" empowers local and global "Partners In Empowerment" (PIE) to address locally identified threats to human and environmental security ...

Action: 1. Identify and engage Partners In Empowerment™ (local and global): community members, collaborating organizations, socially conscious businesses & other stakeholders dedicated to improving human and environmental security.   * More specifically, "7 Stages to Sustainability" emphases six synergistic social and economic sectors:       Collaborating Nonprofits– Who: Comm...

Problem: BRIEF: Concentration of wealth, corporate domination, war, poverty, hunger, environmental devastation.   From Website:   Common good banks are designed to save the world from corporate domination and give control back to the people.   Here's how (follow links for details): Establish community-based democratic economic systems, as a seed for the world of our dreams Community Division, a nearly independent local common good bank, with investment priorities and distribution of...