I was working on a small “paulpeaceparable” to end all paulpeaceparables (Yeah, right!!) for today’s (6/23/15) “Sustainability Forum” at the HBG Convention Center in SA, when our home computer became nonfunctional (Son John Alton is currently reviving it.). Therefore, I haven’t been able to get into the file in which I was working … on what was to be a seminal piece (Just kidding; it truly is just more of the same from me.).
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Anyway, what follows is the gist of the sustainability contribution on which I was working … sans background research information and citations:
o If we wish to keep some semblance of the dynamic natural communities in which we co-evolved … and to begin to be more humane humans, we haves must decrease our collective ecological footprint by ca. two-thirds ASAP and redistribute that power to the poor, disenfranchised, and relatively powerless … and thus also provide appropriate habitat for other species.
o We do need to curb rampant conventional artificialization. Moreover, before mass-producing so-called organic-, renewable energy-, Green-, LEED-, … technologies/structures/processes, they need to be thoroughly, energetically, and holistically vetted, locally and globally, including with research into impacts on energetics and material flow … and on current relatively sustainable social systems/ecological communities [Precautionary Principle]. (Some of these “sustainable” technologies/structures/processes have stood the test of time/been thoroughly tested. They include walking; bicycling; small structures in which to live, recreate, and work which utilize passive systems for heating and cooling; small neighborhood and rural schools; local community foodsheds with a strong foundation of appropriate agroecology; … .)
o Ecology (PEACE*) across campuses and across curricula, instructional materials, and/or the protocol of schools, NGOs and governmental/bureaucratic entities, businesses, churches, clubs, and other human organizations is desperately needed in order to move us toward: sustainable systems, sustainable living, and sustainable livelihoods.
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*PEACE is “Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology” toward a regenerating, conserving and resilient, sustainable (local/global) ecological community.