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The technical definition being "a sound balance among the
interactions of the impacts (positive and/or negative), or stresses, on the four
major quality systems: People, Economic Development, Environment and
Availability of Resources," and
The none-technical definition being "a sound balance among the
interactions designed to create a healthy economic growth, preserve
environmental quality, make a wise use of our resources, and enhance social
benefits."
When there is a need to find a solution to a
problem or a concern, a sound solution would be to choose a measure or conduct an action, if possible, which
causes reversible damage as opposed to a measure or an action causing an irreversible
loss. The Global Community
can help you realize your actions by coordinating efforts efficiently together. Seed thought:
Conscience in the minds of children is needed for they will inherit
the earth.
Conscience in the mind of an adult: The ultimate war of independence is to decide for yourself
A man (a woman) has the right to decide what he will become and must
go through his personal clean-up with the aim of becoming: a better person,
a better neighbour, a better citizen, and more useful member of his global
community.
Every man (woman) must make a personal decision about: Each and everyone of us is part of "a Global Community" wherever
we go throughout our life. Personal sustainable development has to do with
our behavior within this global community, what we do or dont, cause and
effect, and how we interact with someone else global community and, on
the planetary scale, with The Global Community. We are constantly
required to re-evaluate our values and make decisions. The following is
meant to question our ways and behaviors and start a discussion amongst
us all about a universal scale of values. A Roundtable Discussion on a
Scale of Values has been proposed. Life's major problems make us react ~ and there are myriad possible
reactions ~ but to be of a mind-set that allows one to calmly face the
problem detached from emotion in order to pick the best solution, may quite
possibly be the most powerful tool of any person interested in personal
development.
Human desires, vanities, attachments to family mores, influence these
decisions and so they tend to be accurate expressions of each individual's
character at that particular time.
Our choice, in the end, is what we want because of what we feel.
This particular assessment of any given situation appears to express
our level of development as a human being devoted to building strong character.
One feels the most honest thing to do is face exactly what is presented
on the horns of our dilemma for our choice:~
As a human, one is challenged - go forward, or not (just yet).
We are endlessly faced with the same choice hidden in endless guises
unitl we "get it right." What is personal sustainable development?
3.1 being
with self-control; eating to accommodate your body's needs and holding
hereditary ills in check; maintaining a well working physical vehicle(your
body); balancing our life with work, play and rest; feeding our mind and
being constantly learning; communicating with others
Everyone has to decide this by himself. Knowing our weaknesses we can
work eliminating them or at least making sure they would not affect significantly
our decision-making process. It is a struggle that spans our lifetime. Once an individual is in control of his own being then he can extend
his empowerment out to his global community and The Global Community.
This way each person has to decide what:
4.1 are the things
holding us back and requiring serious attention and how can they be starved-out
so good things may grow
At the end each and everyone of us decides what sort of person we want
to become. After going through this personal clean-up we become a better
citizen, a more sensitive neighbour, a moral responsible father, and a
more useful and respected member of the Global Community. What conduct is correct if survival is the issue?
Having said that what are spiritual values to sustain life? Many rules are made to empower the rule-maker only learn to recognize
those kind of rules! For they are seldom good for the person who obeys
such rules.
Old fears have sometimes to do with family feud over several generations.
Things to go:
Conscience means human have the knowledge to keep the planet healthy;
it is the science of determining right and wrong. In case of the human
conscience towards the planet's survival it is:
Human conscience will insist all possible measures be taken to prevent
the planet from becoming uninhabitable.
Education is necessary to awaken all people in all countries to the
frightening fact that unless we all take responsibility for plant life
it will soon become uninhabitable. It will no longer be able to support
human life.
The most important factor in human existence is survival. To survive
we need oxygen and we need food and shelter. Oxygen is provided by green
plants. Therefore, we'd darn well better see we have lots of green growing
plants.
Most people nowadays are urban dwellers. Urban people do not know the
source of their food. Therefore people have to be taught to protect their
food supply.
Things we do in our country can affect people on the other side of the
planet. We exchange food with one another; there is a constant exchange
of goods, services, manufactured products, basic products, energy, etc.
If our manufactured plants produce pollution into theair this will affect
food produced South of us.
Self-interest, self-preservation as a species, as peoples and inhabitants
of this planet, instinct, are all driving forces of global human consciousness.
Global consciousness is about a chain of dependence; everything depends
on another form of life for survival like a symbiosis: lifeforms who contribute
to the food or well-being of another species. What are real needs? Of whose survival do they depend on? Of what interest?
There are families all over the world (a few examples here):
All families need shelter, food, parents, children, language, body of
knowledge, certain skills, a source of income, etc.
There are interacting universal responsibilities. In terms of parenthood,
parents must raised their children mentally and physically healthy. It
is a responsibility to do so. Which also means each must have an educational
program (parents to children type, school, college, university, etc.).
It is important to have a home-base (for a sense of security), a house,
a campsite in the bushes (for nomades).
Governments self-serving politics should be investigated with respect
to:
The criminal system needs investigating to be in step with the times,
and it should be based on needs of people rather than dictate through laws.
Could we create a universal law system to work and be applicable in
all countries? 11. Creating a universal code of conduct
acceptable to all?
We have no intention of imposing a scale of values. It has to be developed
by us all.
The special factor in the work of those submitting papers to the World
Congress is that all are evaluating impacts with respect to four interacting
concerns (people's lives, resources, economic development and the environment)
based on a new scale of values. The scale of values is about establishingwhat
is very important to ensure a sound future for Earth, and to
keep our planet healthy, productive and hospitable for all people
and living things, what is important,
what
is not so important, and what should be let go.
From this scale, agreed upon by all members of TheGlobal Community,
the assessment of sustainable development can be conducted. The benchmark
is the scale established in year 2000 along with the first evaluation of
sustainable development conducted with respect to the four levels.
Their work will show how their field of interest influences all
four interacting areas of concerns and they will develop policies (workable
sound solutions) to submit to The Global Community.
The material sent so far is remarkable and original. All abstracts will
appear in the Preliminary Program to be published in February 2000.
The effects of climate changes will certainly be a major issue. New
ideas about energy and environmental accounting will also be discussed.
However, your creative thinking is paramount. We do not dictate what to
do. It's new ways of thinking that is important at the World Congress.
New standards, goals and objectives have to be defined. Firm universal
guidelines are essentials in keeping the world healthy. Already we notice
throughout the world new ways of thinking being embraced, new behaviors
and attitudes adopted. Sound workable solutions to all our problems will
have to be researched and developed and made available to everyone on the
Internet. This is la raison d’être of The
Global Community organization.
The aim of The Global Community is to give people an opportunity
to meet, encourage and advise one another about original ways to best harmonize
impacts upon
· the lives of people
We must abandon ideas and old ways which have not worked well, including traditional ways that have simply become habits. Getting rich at the expense of everyone else is no longer acceptable. Over the decades, history has proven projects and actions which ignored everything except a special interest have resulted in ultimate failure and human misery. The Global Community aims to establish a UNIVERSAL BENCHMARK for the 21st Century made up of a Scale of Values for sustainable development based on universal indicators. All members will assess and agree upon this scale. Your input is vital. We need to hear your voice in these matters. Every country must be heard from to arrive at a workable universal scale of values. In this Newsletter we are exploring the issue of Personal Sustainable Development and, of course, all other issues have to be explored in a similar fashion. For example:
The above is a vitally important fact. It is very important
to have many areas of healthy
But what has to go is the "who cares?" attitude which stems from ignorance
about the
In other words, everyone who wants a life has to take responsibility
for it. 13. The Glass Bubble Concept of a Global Community and Evolution This is an exercise in creative thinking designed to occur over a period of weeks. Aim: To explore how vital is the food we eat to survival as a species and wherein lies a great danger in climate change, which we are unable to control. * Climate influences food supply
Area of Exploration (pick one): Wild horses, Bears, Apes. Experiencing Exercise Using evolution-of-species charts, maps of continental drift and records of climate over the ages examine the evolutionary changes in your chosen species, imagining the glass bubbles, or global communities in which they lived at each stage of development. Consider climate, food supply, possible life hazards. Think!
Use your imagination to pretend you are actually inside that glass bubble, that global community, with your selected species. Feel the situation. Respond to the need of your species. Understand what makes things happen. Oral Presentations or Papers * Describe why major physical changes came to the body of your chosen species over time, even causing sub-species. * Clarify how climate changes caused the need for a different kind of food, and illustrate how the body adapted and changed in certain areas to accommodate the new food, new location, new climate. Document how life-styles changed and sub-species developed over the ages. * Record the special skills in survival, collection of food, dealing with danger, of the various sub-species as evolution occured in its different branches of the family tree. Follow-up Bringing the new knowledge home to see how it fits in our lives as well. Imagine You are in your private glass bubble, the global community in which
you live every day.
How does this influence your daily life?
Suppose the climate change in our imaginary scenario persisted. How might the human species evolve over the next 10,000 years? Create a class project Make a panoramic model of a global community with evolved humans, who have survived the heat and the water. Show all the likely adaptations they would make. Record other life-style changes including food. Students taking part in such a study are quite likely to internalize the following basic truths: * what we put into our bodies matters
14. Teaching children to become self-confident thinkers Could this be the subject of a Roundtable Discussion during the World
Congress?
Being intuitive means we know things without knowing "how we know."
Examine this:
Children in a school yard are much more intuitive than grown-ups. 16. Personal sustainable development for children "The body is the horse the soul rides on ~ you dont get far on a sick horse." There are a number of ideas to keep a child's development sustainable: 16.1 Eating for power: combinations
of foods that create vitality and health.
Suggested ideas upon which a creative teacher may build a program
in Personal
Most of us have been brought up with the knowledge adults make their
own choices ~ and
Even a child could see if he acts in certain ways, things can backfire
and cause harm. And also
If a child has the habit of reacting to unpleasant life events in knee-jerk
revenge or angry
It is very important for children to have experience in choosing
to react well, even in little
It is not so important that one agree with other children all
the time. One obeys parents and
What must be let go is the uncontrolled way some children react
to the troubles of their lives.
Teaching a child how to sustain the development of his own life toward
happy solutions calls
Perhaps the best place to start is care and management of the child's
own room at home,
Older children could be encouraged to keep a journal about incidents,
and how things happened
Referring back to these records, a child gains a sense of mastery, and
quickly builds up finesse
It won't take long before a child has solid evidence that bad luck and
tough breaks were only
He'll get the conviction it is not people or "things" that makes him
happy. He is making himself
This self-improvement journey will sustain him for as long as
he uses it, the results to be
17. In sustaining the development of your own life If making these ideas on personal sustainable development a natural
pattern for your life, you may quickly internalize them by starting to
practice them
Try them out. Keep a journal and refer back to the results occasionally. Record whose welfare you were considering as well as your own when you came to a decision how to act. Soon you will find ways to "finesse" your behaviour, phrases that work. Actions that pays off in a good way. You will realize what you had formerly considered "back luck", or "tough breaks" now has an entirely new explanation and, best of all, YOU are in control of you. Besides, others like you better. You like yourself better too. Worth a try?
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