Sacramento Permaculture Guild
Cultivating Beneficial Relationships and Cultures in Sacramento
The Sacramento Permaculture Guild exists to connect people certified, experienced, or interested in permaculture, ecological design, green living, and organic gardening in the Sacramento region in order to create a more vibrant and sustainable local community through work-parties, potlucks, workshops and skillshares.
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Frithjof Finkbeiner
Businessman, International Coordinator of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative, Member of Club of Rome, born 1962
Already as a pupil Frithjof was an activist. He got first hand experience of worldwide operating networks like AIESEC and Rotaract Germany. During his business studies he did internships in New York, Lomé, Zurich, Warsaw, Karachi and explored countries in Asia and Africa by bicycle.
Between 1986 and 1994 he accomplished the basis for his economic independence as a businessman. In 1994 Al Gore changed his life: Frithjof realized that we do have to stand up together for changing the global framework. Since then he consistently has been devoting his social commitment to the "enterprise humankind" and the question of how globalization can be arranged in a fair way.
In 2001 Frithjof founded together other fellow combatants the Global Contract Foundation. Together with many more partners they established the Global Marshall Plan Initiative in 2003. Nearly five years later on March 5, 2008 he and many more partners launched the “Coalition for the Global Commons.” The Coalition works toward a concept of world citizenship and multilateral cooperation on integrated solutions for the global challenges facing humanity. www.coalition-global-commons.org
Together with his wife Karolin he founded the Global Marshall Plan Foundation to fund the initiatives. They live with their children, who started the children's initiative Plant for the Planet, in Bavaria.
Businessman, International Coordinator of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative, Member of Club of Rome, born 1962
Already as a pupil Frithjof was an activist. He got first hand experience of worldwide operating networks like AIESEC and Rotaract Germany. During his business studies he did internships in New York, Lomé, Zurich, Warsaw, Karachi and explored countries in Asia and Africa by bicycle.
Between 1986 and 1994 he accomplished the basis for his economic independence as a businessman. In 1994 Al Gore changed his life: Frithjof realized that we do have to stand up together for changing the global framework. Since then he consistently has been devoting his social commitment to the "enterprise humankind" and the question of how globalization can be arranged in a fair way.
In 2001 Frithjof founded together other fellow combatants the Global Contract Foundation. Together with many more partners they established the Global Marshall Plan Initiative in 2003. Nearly five years later on March 5, 2008 he and many more partners launched the “Coalition for the Global Commons.” The Coalition works toward a concept of world citizenship and multilateral cooperation on integrated solutions for the global challenges facing humanity. www.coalition-global-commons.org
Together with his wife Karolin he founded the Global Marshall Plan Foundation to fund the initiatives. They live with their children, who started the children's initiative Plant for the Planet, in Bavaria.
It has seemed to me that leadership from the center of world power is needed to make the kind of speedy changes in world governance that our times demand. What I write below is therefore focused on the USA, and what its president can do, if properly informed, to foster global change.
The dynamics of enlightened presidential action require integration between national and global governance. (This kind of integration may be needed by all nations as well.) So I make no clear distinction between US governance and that of the international community. But mine is a work in progress, open to many developments and inputs.
HOW TO DO EVERYTHING
One block at a time; one neighborhood at a time; one city, town or village at a time; one county, parish or district at a time; one nation at a time; one planet, everyone rowing in the same direction.
© Trevor Burrowes
1) Being the de facto head of world governance, the US president is concerned with everything.
2) There is a way to wrap world governance issues up into a ball and address them systematically.
3) The world governance ball of issues is the physical planet.
4) Our cultural traditions have taught us to see the world as fractured little fiefdoms, and not as a unified, physical whole. This needs to change.
5) Humanity must evolve to take in the whole planet as a single sphere of governance.
6) Climate change is the best catalyst for this evolution, since it is no respecter of geopolitical boundaries. More than any other issue, climate change affects all living beings in the world.
7) The discipline of planning (as in urban planning and city General Plans, which involve comprehensive land-based planning) is a way for the president to wrap his head around the globe’s problems and opportunities.
8) Every square inch of the planet falls firmly or loosely under some planning jurisdiction or other. In the US, planning jurisdictions can be cities, counties, states, federal government, tribal governments, and overlapping jurisdictions like national parks, rivers, oceans, bioregions, metropolitan districts, etc..
9) Plans are also supposed to be internally consistent, so that one element of a plan, like open space, can be consistent with another, like community health, if open space encourages people to walk more.
10) We need an overarching policy from the federal government to require that a) various plans lead to common sustainability goals, and that b) all plans within the nation be consistent with each other. Barring this, individual plans are largely ineffective in fostering big picture change.
11) Stimulus funding should apply to projects that are consistent with sustainable planning (economically and environmentally) in any given area.
12) Foreign aid and intervention should help direct international planning toward internal consistency and sustainability on a global level.
13) A survey of plans nationwide and globally is needed. The aim would be to assess the effects, benefits, deficits, gaps, and possibilities for international planning for global sustainability.