How can we change the world in one generation?

Question

How can we change the world in one generation?

Answer 1

Start with changing yourself, then as you gain skills and knowledge share with your nearest neighbours. This way you   spread your knowledge and skills into the community so everybody can start to make changes.

Answer 2

Avoid the temptation to work on only one thing at a time. This guarantees nothing of significance will be accomplished. All the time will be spent deciding the first thing,

Rather find ways for many people to work on many different things simultaneously. We know that some of the things we accomplish will be redundant as we complete them. We know that some things will not mesh perfectly and will require rework. What we will have gained is proof that the original concept is viable, even if it needs to be reworked a bit to fit with some other idea.

The profit motive may often be our best driver, but we should not overlook the principle that drives UBUNTU. This is a world wide group of people who work independently to build a free operating system for computers, and a whole library of applications, most of which are free to all, but they also support for profit offerings.

We have to concentrate on respecting the efforts of others even as we explain how they need to be redirected. Keeping others working is not a leadership challenge, but a practise in sharing leadership.

Answer 3

that takes a book to answer

in short a sustainable self sufficient Garden culture

http://byderule.multiply.com/journal/ite...

and many rules of conduct

Answer 4

Well we currently have our hands in everything trying to improve everything at once. Which is possible, just very hard to do, we need to come together as a people and work on one thing at a time, all the while not totally neglecting the rest, but we need to focus more as a group on what we can do, then we can do anything.

Answer 5

I believe the best way to do that would be to sterilize politicians and movie stars.

Answer 6

Vote for Obama. He actually cares about the Nation's people and has the integrity and intelligence to pull us through the wave of destruction Bush created to drown us in.

Answer 7

Simple, don't have any kids.

Answer 8

Convince people that change is necessary, convenient, economical, and most of all s**y.

Otherwise, not everyone will be in on it.

Answer 9

Permaculture and Deep Ecology. We can start changing the world today and leave a natural inheritance for all future generations. Learn about Permaculture and grow permanent gardens and edible forests for your children and grandchildren. Learn about Deep Ecology and forever change the way you think and act in the world.  

My diary - Why invest in the future?

I am planting more trees. Walnuts which will only start to fruit at the end of my life and only be really productive when my grandchildren 'to be' are adults. The timber will be mature in a couple of hundred years. It feels good.

Yesterday: I was planting ash in a field where there is an old hedgerow. The tiny sticks I plant are nothing like the 150+ year old ash trees that watch over me. I look up, see the tiny stick ash newly planted with the mature ash behind them and I hope that one day others will see these sticks as mature trees. That they will be habitat, shelter, food for other creatures.

I have an old injury which makes it difficult to kneel, it makes me even more aware of how fragile and transient I am. So I sit on my bum pulling back the long grass, lifting out the clods I have dug in readiness for a sapling, when I see tiny startling white mushrooms and I am ecstatically happy. The first signs (after nine years of trying) that the land is now really healing. Correcting the chemical errors the previous farm owners made on the land.

Last night: We received a phone call, two trees we planted in 1983 have blown over and damaged our neighbours' fence. This was a back garden we permaculture planted. It is now a wood in the middle of a housing estate. Whilst sorry for my neighbours, I again am very happy. The wood is acting as it should, gap dynamics, this means that it is opening up a space so seeds in the soil have the light and room to germinate and grow.

We talk about centuries, but I can't really comprehend the significance in a real time scale. I can only judge in terms of so many of my own lifetimes, but it becomes quickly unreal. But I do feel totally dependent on all the other living things and non living systems around me, as I recognize that they are dependent on me. I feel connected to the past and present and future. I feel part of the earth and want it to continue to flourish long after any of my genetic material, or indeed even mankind exists.

Most of the benefits from what I am doing today won't be seen by me, won't be for me, maybe my children will have some benefit. They should get a good yield, if they take it. But I am happy when I do this. It is enough to know I am making minute differences in my tiny, tiny, world (immediate environment) to all those living and non living things that share it with me. I feel relaxed, in tune, connected and I feel good about what I do.

Answer 10

A few well placed nukes ought to do it.

Answer 11

Reduce your own personal reliance on big companies who provide you with instant gratification. Slow food, home grown food and buying fewr trinkets is how we change the world in one generation.

Browse Permaculture and Deep Ecology

http://www.heureka.clara.net/gaia/deep-e...

http://www.spiralseed.co.uk/permaculture...

(click on links on left hand side for explanations.

Answer 12

Everyone can pitch in! Try to recycle and conserve energy at home, at work, in the car, and other places too!

Go to yahoo.com/green! Check out the web site to see tips and look at you/your family's footprint!