Ideas, suggestions & opinions about education, power, change and community.
The Sustainability Street "accumulation and trigger" theory about social and cultural change, enables the Mountain Range of optimism, hope and practical, achievable possibility for the reversal of climate damage and carbon overload! Recent news from Doha, of four to six degrees, defines our blank canvas of opportunity.
Read more...Not everything that can be counted matters ... and ... some things that matter can never be counted!
Albert Einstein!
Read more...Rebuilding community and sculpting a new economy led by the eco-right community movement is just so exciting ... and a nourishing salve for the ills that ail the planet ... people everywhere are re-figuring who they are and what this life means ... and along the way, above all, finding a huge place for empathy with nature in the way we live our daily lives ...
Ya don't have to sail to Antarctica to dodge harpoons!
Notwithstanding, of course, that we owe a great debt to those who do.
Sustainability Street invites participation. On your own terms.
From anyone. From everyone! From everywhere!
Protecting and enhancing the natural systems upon which we rely, does not require a "membership card". The only qualification to be "an environmentalist" is to want to see life prosper. In the recent past there has been a subtext that unless you were an obvious greenie, protestor, new ager or eco-zoo-bio-logist, that you weren't helping or couldn't be a part. John Fitsgeral Kennedy soon scotched that idea ...
anybdy can make a difference ... and everybody should try.
The Sustainability Street Approach (SSA) is a local, social, passionate … though never prosletysing … response to our deep concerns for the Earth. It is not necessarily about “joining” a traditional, campaign, issue focussed group per se. Of course, we have much to thank action groups for. The Approach’s core aim is to shift culture to make redundant the need for urgent campaigns to save the environment. This is a big call of utopian, whole of society proportions. For sure.
Micheangelo once said ... the danger is not that you aim for the stars and fail! The danger is that you aim lower and succeed!
Read more...Pablo said, "if it can be dreamed it can be real. Albie surmised that imagination is more important then knowledge. Modern sports psychology is the cream on top. Sports Psych has scientifically proven that a player who imagines, dreams, visualises scoring the goal ... is more likely to do it! One of the eight principles of the Sustainability Street Approach is ... take time out to imagine a clean, green sustainable future.
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