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Something More Than Changing Light bulbs



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  • Started 2 years ago by jreed
  • Latest reply from prometheuspan

  1. We are in the midst of a major environmental crisis, and the current solutions presented by the media are not enough to change the tides. While it's great that people and businesses are thinking and acting more "green", small changes alone within the everyone-for-themselves (EFT) will not be enough to bail ourselves out.

    Here are the steps that we need to take:

    • We need immediate and total transformation of the current system. The majority of the problems that we are facing today are a result of free-market capitalism.

    • We need to establish a new and better system, Communities that are based on The Highest Good For All which will create abundance on all levels for all, including Nature.

    • Building one cluster of six 500 person Communities to demonstrate The Highest Good model is what is needed to start the positive transformation of the planet. As people see how easily this can be done, this will create a catalyst for the rest of the planet to follow, and will require far fewer resources than trying to get the EFT paradigm to act quickly to save our planet.

    Are you ready to start the process towards healing our planet?

    Posted 2 years ago #
  2. J
    Member

    yep! I have been spreading the word as best I can. also Jack whats the status of the pensacola FL project that Jim Costa is doing?

    Posted 2 years ago #
  3. J - Answering your question about the status of the Co-op Village project in FL, go to www.co-opvillagefoundation.org. Interesting site that will give you all the latest.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  4. I'm just curious why six 500 person communities is the magic number. It seems random to me, and I did read the book, and have had lots of conversations about it, but I still don't understand why it has to be that specific number of people and communities. I also don't understand how consensus works. I have a hard time getting to consensus between myself and my five year old, how are 500 people going to come to a consensus on a regular basis?
    I would like to see you write a new book specifically on that topic.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  5. esther
    Member

    I dont care exactly how many communities we need to make it work....but i do know it is exhilerating to even just get together with people to address things that REALLY matter.
    About concensus......to me it is the willingness to move forward.....If we can be in concensus about that!!!!!!

    Posted 4 months ago #
  6. prometheuspan
    Member

    the point of 6 500 person communities is merely an approximation of a tipping point where some few number of functional communities with at least a few hundred persons could act as catalysts to show the world a new and better modality can work and is practical.

    Posted 1 month ago #

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