Where can we find examples of sustainable communities?
I am interested in seeking out those who rebuild their lives after natural and manmade disasters. Or those who have embarked on a social movement to regain control of their comunity in a bid to create sustainability where before self destruction was a real threat.
How can we maximise social value, invest responsibly and generate sufficiant finacncial returns to ensure sustainability?
Saturday 11 July 2009
Looking for the link: my thoughts into words, uncut.
History is full of them leaders, warriors and mothers who protect. Their objective is the same, survival. Their strtategy defense and a constant awareness of that or those seeking to harm you or your protégé.
As time and history moved on we slowly began to realise that internal threats were just as dangerous to our survival as threats from our neighbours and beyond. The idea that such internal threats could be more easily defended against sparked social protectionism in it's many forms.
Yet all the while the majority of effort still was directed towards the external threat, perhaps neglecting the internal beast as a result. With time protectionism led to rebellion to supression and so on.
And now we protest and deny our governments the freedoms once given to use violence and counter external aggression in the name of defense. As we the protected begin to question our protectors, attention is turned to social harmony, prevention and sustainability. If we can fix ourselves, we can save the world. Naïve?
Social movements, sustainable communities, peace ... where is the link?
Have we found the anwser? Have we even found the question?
As time and history moved on we slowly began to realise that internal threats were just as dangerous to our survival as threats from our neighbours and beyond. The idea that such internal threats could be more easily defended against sparked social protectionism in it's many forms.
Yet all the while the majority of effort still was directed towards the external threat, perhaps neglecting the internal beast as a result. With time protectionism led to rebellion to supression and so on.
And now we protest and deny our governments the freedoms once given to use violence and counter external aggression in the name of defense. As we the protected begin to question our protectors, attention is turned to social harmony, prevention and sustainability. If we can fix ourselves, we can save the world. Naïve?
Social movements, sustainable communities, peace ... where is the link?
Have we found the anwser? Have we even found the question?
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