I am not advocating taking away capitalism, just de-emphasizing it. Huge funding goes into brainwashing people on materialism sort of like cigarette promotion did, causing people to live in a way that they would not if they had accurate knowledge.Let capitalism sink or swim in a knowledgeable climate where people are making informed decisions. Materialism… Continue reading Capitalism in a knowledge based world

Here is a half serious portrayal of society and systems within. No offence to the noble ox, I will use them allegorically. I don’t want to de-motivate the dumb oxen of capitalism and materialism from running for their carrot, but I would like to suggest that if we all run after endless growth and materialism… Continue reading Government and capitalism as the “dumb ox” of society

Our world ecology is at a pivotal turning point in 2014. Let's shift gears away from too much talk about CO2 emissions and energy over-use. Undeniably, humans are the keystone species with the power to dictate where the world’s ecosystems will turn. At times in history, forests and fertile grasslands existed throughout the lands of the… Continue reading The Crossroads of Civilization

Local control of local resources is clearly a powerful thought. It does not mean that local control equals sustainability. It means local control is a foundation to build sustainable ethic upon. Our world is large and our politic ineffective and our method of democracy defunct. We have created and empowered a monster, but defusing the… Continue reading Local control of local resources & lives have rights, the supercede those of business

I believe the work of Paul Cienfuegos is relevant to this topic. http://paulcienfuegos.com/We can only do so much through motivation. The corporation is bound by an ethic based in taking advantage within the legal boundaries. People in corporate management are in a sense "bound by an oath" to uphold the selfish ambitions of capitalism. Capitalism when… Continue reading How to tame the corporation and save the planet: step one–local control of local resources

I think we create the confusion. Anyone can go to the land and after a learning curve become sustainable. In fact squirrels can do it. The world is inherently sustainable. Why is that so difficult to understand. It is where you place the bar. Are we aiming for sustainability? No, we are trying to redefine it… Continue reading Confusion about sustainability

I'm hip on it. Lets get in there and balance CO2 by drawing it back down to land using soil and ecology as the sink building biology in the biosphere regreening the earth... Sunlight plus water and minerals of life = biology on our planet right now. We could be symbiotic instead of parasitic afterall.… Continue reading Get’r Done!

What have passionate and heartful people conjured up as world changing ideas to create Utopia only to push the vision further away as it played out in a reality different than imagined?Perfect! Part of knowledge. I am not saying to burn books or cast out the witches, or to make way for a new type… Continue reading A good and proper warning to start out such a conversation with:

"Collective conscience" can be defined as societies system of norms and the peer pressure exerted to maintain those norms. Collective conscience addresses the minor day to day things that make cultures distinct and collectively frame (delimit) the society. They should be norms added slowly into a society over years of adaptation.  Adapting general cultural and physical… Continue reading How Conscience will change the world