Sustainable Futures
Visioning the future we prefer is important to us. More important is acting on those visions and implementing Sustainable Ideas.
Our role is to build citizenship by awakening people to the value that social responsibility creates for us - individually, in our businesses, in our communities, in our countries and in the world. To build a solid foundation for the future, we have to find the balance between what we take and what we give. If we believe this, we must remain critical of our actions and choices.
Are we mindful of the true motivation behind our choices - and the implications of them? Are we responsible for the outcome of our choices? Otherwise, we won't pay attention to the impact and consequences of those choices. We have to start making CONSCIOUS CHOICES - transforming how we do things.
We each want to believe that we will have a healthy, happy and safe future. What will happen if we don't pay attention to the structures that support us? Right now, the world's climate is changing. Whole communities are suffering because of the impact of extreme climate change. We are each responsible for this.
Climate change is not the only problem facing us - poverty, starvation, and the ability to earn a living wage all impact our ability to build this future together.
What do we need to do to take responsibility and ensure a healthy, clean and safe environment for all of us? How do we address the contradiction of generating profit and still behave socially responsible? This is the BIG question.
Let's make this work as individuals, companies, communities, cities, and nations.
Share your ideas. If you have a great case study where something is working, then please tell us!
Your choices on steps toward sustainability
Every person has the power to shape the way things will turn out.
Kids 2020: their Visions & Strategies for a Preferred Future
sustainable life strategy
Learning the role that values play in making choices - and putting them to work in creating value - is the heart of Kids 2020.
It's been a long road. We've been gathering a force of believers with expertise in their areas to help us bring Kids 2020 to life. With world-changing potential, this is such an ambitious undertaking.
We are seeking contributors who believe in Kids 2020. We need strategic partners with a commitment to social responsiblity who believe that having a sustainable life strategy is just as important as having an environmental strategy.
The learning program is at the heart of Kids 2020. Children and parents learn how to use vision and values to make better choices to build a preferred future. They then put those values to work to introduce a new value system into people's lives where human capital, social capital, creative capital each have the same worth as money in currency.
Another dimension to Kids 2020 is building a dynamic research resource where people can explore and participate in learning, community building, value creation and the significance of meaning.
We are also lobbying to put the health, education and welfare of a child as a sustainability strategy at the heart of every government policy in the world.
As you can see, Kids 2020 is a powerful idea and an ambitious movement to put this powerful idea into practice. We need people to contribute value on many levels. Interested?
Would you like to contribute in your own preferred way? We need testers for our test website. If you would like to participate, please send an email to testers@kids2020foundation.net. Please be patient while we're under construction - building the web infrastructure takes time...and money. Consider whether you would like to contribute and participate in your own preferred way.
If you are representing your company and believe in Kids 2020 as a CSR project, please contact us directly - contact@kids2020foundation.net.
In the meantime, follow us as we take Kids 2020 into the world.
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MegaCommunity
The MegaCommunity manifesto: "A megacommunity is a public sphere in which organizations and people deliberately join together around a compelling issue of mutual importance, following a set of practices and principles that will make it easier for them to achieve results." Read more about The MegaCommunity Manifesto in Strategy+Business Online Magazine.
What are your ideas about creating a MegaCommunity Manifesto around social responsibility?
We have been exploring social responsibility as a unifying movement between business, education, and community. If you would like to join in that conversation, please visit The Sustainable Futures Foundation website and send us your email. We closed our networking site because we are rethinking how people might like to come together and build on their ideas.
We are planning an event - Coastal Connections - in November 2009, bringing people together to address the issues and identify the implication of those issues surrounding our coastlines.
In the meantime, visit Kids 2020 to see how we are putting our thoughts into practice.
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Internet Network for Sustainability - INSnet
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How we each address our social responsibility - individually and in the context of our work, organizations and communities - will help address effective steps to establish sustainable behaviors.
WorldChanging Blog
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The tag cloud of "what you want to change in the world" compels you to click and see what's next.
Watch what can happen.
Celsias.com
carbon credits as currency
A New Zealand company has applied to patent Celsias.com, the world's first online community that allows regions, businesses or community groups to receive payments for reducing the carbon emissions from their everyday energy use. Celsias.com is built upon a fast growing global economy that recognizes energy savings - your carbon emission reductions or carbon credits - as a form of currency.
With Celsias you can now track, create and trade this new currency on the Internet.
Calculate the carbon footprint of your home, your business, your community group or any other entity. Create carbon credits for yourself by learning how to reduce your carbon emissions and by searching for and buying the world's most energy efficient products and services. Sell these carbon credits to other Celsias members anywhere around the world.
Register now on Celsias.com.
Follow their blog to keep up with what they're doing.
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Climate Crisis
Here's a link to an edited version on PeekVideo online
An Inconvenient Truth
Amazon Price: $19.99 (as of 12/04/2008) 
Earthwire.org
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CSR Wire
CSRwire is the leading source of corporate social responsibility and sustainability, press releases, reports and information.
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blog
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methodology for strategic exploration
To work out the implications of sustainable future scenarios and establish benchmarks, the iWheel can bring varied efforts into a strategic program to establish effective action plans.
The Implications Wheel software can distribute portions of an i-Wheel document, called arcs, via the internet or USB keychain drives. Teams can then use a special I-Wheel Arc application to contribute to the process. The completed Arcs are automatically assembled into the originating document.
Challenging the Environmentalists
- Heretical Thoughts about Science & Society
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Read this fascinating article on Edge.org.
Here's the intro from Freeman:
"My first heresy says that all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated. Here I am opposing the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models.
Of course, they say, I have no degree in meteorology and I am therefore not qualified to speak. But I have studied the climate models and I know what they can do.
The models solve the equations of fluid dynamics, and they do a very good job of describing the fluid motions of the atmosphere and the oceans. They do a very poor job of describing the clouds, the dust, the chemistry and the biology of fields and farms and forests.
They do not begin to describe the real world that we live in. The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand. It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models, than to put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in the swamps and the clouds.
That is why the climate model experts end up believing their own models.
is professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
