There are 6.67 billion humans on planet earth; and 2.2 are between the ages of 0 an 18 years! These figures came up in a recent conversation with colleagues on climate change and sustainability. I was intrigued: What does or what will this mean? Thinking, as opposed to feeling, about these numbers, my reflection was eerily intellectual. I found myself trying to remember the formula on how to arrive at a percentage, and wondering how many of the 2.2 lived in the USA. As the conversation continued, my eyes wandered to a photo of my grandchildren on my desk. There they were, from 3 months to 10 years old, all smiles, except for Riley, who with a pretty pink bow in her hair sat crying. It was at that moment that the numbers and the conversation became clear and took on a level of urgency that I wasn’t connecting with. The most important people in my life are part of those 2.2 billion faces, and they, along with all the other faces, will not be excused from the consequences of climate change.

My reflection shifted from my head to my heart, as the faces of Lexie, Jaxson, Luke, Henry, Riley, Hopper and Owen came into my heart and head, and the number 2.2 billion was no longer an abstraction. By seeing the faces of “my” kids in the portrait of the 2.2 billion faces, I felt how intimately connected we are to all the faces in the world. At this moment, before my grandchildren can even comprehend the meaning of the words, millions of children are experiencing the devastating and life-changing affects of climate change.

I’m old: hopefully I have another 20 to 30 years of life. Not a lot of years when you think about it. In contrast, our children and grandchildren have, if life treats them kindly, 70 to 90 years of living to navigate. What will they experience and what will be the quality of their life? Gordon Brown, prime minister of Great Britain, at a recent conference shared a glimpse of their future:

“According to estimates from the intergovernmental panel on climate change, an extra 1.8bn people – a quarter of the world’s population – could be short of water by 2080 as a result of climate change.

And the threat was not confined to people in the developing world, Brown said.

“The extraordinary summer heat wave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths. On current trends, such an event could become quite routine in Britain in just a few decades’ time.”

“And within the lifetime of our children and grandchildren the intense temperatures of 2003 could become the average temperature experienced throughout much of Europe. In Britain we face the prospect of more frequent droughts and a rising wave of floods.”

I’ve heard the views of those who believe that climate change is not real, or the minimzers who say that the consequences won’t be as severe as predicted, or that it is just a natural evolution of the earth. I’ve also watched and listened to the legions of the self-interested, who claim that the actions needed to reduce the causes of climate change will hurt their businesses financially. Can they not see or allow themselves to see, the faces of their children and grandchildren when they advocate for dollars over their children’s well-being? Maybe they think wealth will protect and excuse them from the consequences.

I’ve heard the majority of world leaders and scientists who say that Gordon Brown’s vision is not a probability, but a reality. And the only questions are how soon and to what extent will the consequences of climate change impact our lives and the planet.

Growing up, I was advised that parenting was the most important and responsible vocation I could ever aspire to. And as a parent, I’m well aware of the sacrifices required to nurture and educate children. I believe most parents agree that the health, safety and well-being of their children is their most important adult responsibility.

For a moment, envision that your child has been ill, and after a series of diagnostic tests a highly respected doctor from a well known children’s medical facility informs you that your child has a rare and progressive life threatening disease. She indicates that the treatment recommended for this disease has been effective, but not in all cases, and with the treatment your child has a better than 65% chance of recovery. Any delays in treatment will reduce its effectiveness and risk a full recovery. After researching the Internet, you find that the preponderance of information supports your physician’s diagnosis. However, you do find a minority of physicians who disagree and recommend withholding treatment until additional symptoms emerge. What decision would you make? I would proceed with the treatment.

In essence, the threat of climate change and its effects are very similar to the terminal disease dilemma. We can choose to risk our children’s health and well-being on the basis of minority views or choose to be courageous, and honor our primal parental responsibility and fight for their right to live on a planet that is healing and moving towards a sustainable future.

In every parent’s heart there is space for enormous love and fear - emotions that can move mountains when our children are threatened. Let’s call upon the power of our love and fear to confront the challenge of climate change, which threatens our children and grandchildren’s future.

Our children and grandchildren hold the keys to creating and perfecting a healthier and sustainable life for their children and our planet. Don’t risk denying them and our planet of their unique presence, contributions and stewardship of our world.

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As a guiding principle, the spiritual dimension does not carry the connotation of conventional religion. Rather, it evokes the soul-focused integration of mind and heart in realization of the essential oneness at the center of being.

By anchoring the essence of human motivation and intention, the spiritual principle acts as the causal root which sets the tone for the whole. It drives the integration of the other four principles, those related to the material, economic, life, and social domains. If integrated in a balanced way, it can infuse a common purpose, provide a common foundation, and stimulate common resolve. Lacking the ethical commitment implied by the spiritual principle, considerations of questions related to the four other domains, no matter how elaborately expressed, are reduced to mere technicalities.

By their very nature language, logic and action force separation, discrimination and choice. A balanced and full integration of all five principles is essential, however, for conceptualizing and realizing sustainability as a state. The whole set has to be integrated into a single unity in which the five principles come together as one.

The five domains underlying the principles interact and co-define one another and, as in a holographic image, each embodies the whole general scheme in its own sphere. When the principles are thus integrated and seamlessly inform choices and actions, a state of sustainability, which otherwise appears as a difficult, distant goal, can be realized spontaneously and completely.

(Ed. Note: The following post is a continuation of a 7 part series. Find the earlier posts in the series on the author’s page.)

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The extent to which this deeply rooted drive is actually allowed to manifest in the daily affairs of society, affects the choices we make and the quality of our actions in the world. Ultimately, it underscores the difference between a greedy, ego-centric, predatory orientation and a nurturing, self-restrained, inclusive approach which honors the larger system of which we are a part and on which we depend for our very existence.

The essential quality of the spiritual domain, recognized, as it is, by all known wisdom traditions, is not easy to pin down. In the English language, the term spiritual carries opposing connotations: sacred, exalted, virtuous, divine, but also, insubstantial and occult. It is meant here to evoke a sense of a deep, underlying essence — a combination of inspiration, meaning, purpose, and a motivating, all encompassing value. The fundamental imprecision which is involved is manifest in the more elaborate way in which the fifth principle is expressed.

The Fifth Principle:

Recognize the seamless, dynamic continuum

Of mystery, wisdom, love, energy, and matter

That links the outer reaches of the cosmos

With our solar system, our planet and its biosphere

Including all humans, with our internal metabolic systems

And their externalized technology extensions –

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For guiding human actions

Policy and Operational Implications

• Acknowledge the transcendent mystery that underlies existence
• Seek to understand and fulfill humanity’s unique function in Universe
• Honor the Earth with its intricate ecology of which humans are an integral part
• Foster compassion and an inclusive, comprehensive perspective in the underlying intention, motivation and actual implementation of human endeavors
• Link inner transformation of individuals to transformations in the social collective, laying foundations for emergence of a new planetary consciousness

(Ed. Note: The following post is a continuation of a 7 part series. Find the earlier posts in the series on the author’s page.)

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Societies, like ecologies, depend on diversity and internal redundancy for robustness, long term viability and health. This alone underscores the importance of encouraging variety and plurality in social forms. At the same time, modern genetics and the sequencing of the human genome indicate that the underlying genetic differences between the many ethnic groups on the planet are insignificantly small, rendering arguments for an inherent superiority, of any group, baseless.

All these thoughts reinforce the still fragile idea that open processes, responsive structures, plurality of expression, and the equality of all individuals ought to constitute the corner-stones of social life. As we enter the twenty first century, however, society continues to operate predominantly by the worn-out assumptions, concepts and structures of yesterday.

The Fourth Principle:

Maximize degrees of freedom and potential self-realization of all humans without any individual or group, adversely affecting others.

Policy and Operational Implications:

• Foster Tolerance as a cornerstone of social interactions
• Enshrine Universal Rights within a framework of planetary citizenship
• Provide for Inclusion and effective Democracy in governance
• Ensure Equitable Access to life nurturing resources
• Establish Cooperation as a basis for managing global issues and planetary commons
• Outlaw War and Trade in weapon technologies
• Promote sustainability literacy through education at all levels
• Embody Sustainability Enhancing Concepts in an effective planetary framework of legislation
  

(Ed. Note: The following post is a continuation of a 7 part series. Find the earlier posts in the series on the author’s page.)

III. The Domain of Life:

Underlying Premise:

The adaptive success of the human species and its quick propagation almost everywhere on planet earth comes at the continuous expense of many other forms of life.

The destruction of individual animals, species, habitats and whole ecosystems, a trend now reaching ominous proportions, is a deep cause for concern.

Complex, self-organizing, living systems: brains, societies, ecosystems — rain forests, coral reef communities, and industrial economies alike — depend on their very complexity, their internal “variety,” for long term viability. Lasting stability in all such systems is in fact, science tells us, a direct function of complexity, of inherent redundancy which allows for emergence and re-emergence of different configurations in response to changing underlying events. Monocultures are brittle in principle, the antithesis, in this context, of vibrant life.

On this point contemporary science seems to be joining with many of the world’s ancient traditions which insist on the uniqueness and fundamental sacredness of all forms of life.

The Third Principle:

Ensure that the essential diversity of all forms of life in the Biosphere is maintained.

Policy and Operational Implications:

• Assume a responsible stewardship for our planet’s web of biological diversity
• Harvest species only to regeneration capacity
• Conserve the variety of existing gene pool
• Shape land use patterns to reduce human encroachment on other forms of  life and enhance biological diversity in areas of human habitat

(Ed. Note: The following post is a continuation of a 7 part series. Find the earlier posts in the series on the author’s page.)

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The accounting framework used at present to guide our economy grossly distorts values. It systematically ignores important cost-components, for example, depletion and pollution. Economists are beginning to reflect on the inadequacies inherent in the narrow concept of growth that dominates measurement of national economies, and some even highlight the basic absurdity of counting consumption as if it were income, a common practice in the way we treat natural resources.

Inadequate measurements, with regulations and subsidies which often accompany them, drive markets and continue to fuel the destructive effects of the economy as a whole. The prevailing conventions of our accounting framework exacerbate such effects and limit the scope of individual initiatives seeking better practices. This self-reinforcing pattern is clearly one key dimension requiring radical change.

The Second Principle:

Adopt an appropriate accounting system, fully aligned with the planet’s ecological processes and reflecting true, comprehensive biospheric pricing to guide the economy.

Policy and Operational Implications:

• Employ a comprehensive concept of wealth related to the simultaneous enhancement of five key forms of capital: Natural, Human, Social, Manufactured and Financial
• Align the world’s economy with nature’s regeneration capacity and incorporate critical “externalities” in all cost and benefit accounts
• Embody a measure of well-being and human development in economic calculations
• Design regulation and taxation policies to accentuate desirable and eliminate adverse outcomes, optimizing the whole
• Rely on market mechanisms, calibrated to reflect “true” costs, for allocation of capital assets
  

(Ed. Note: The following post is a continuation of a 7 part series by Dr. Michael Ben-Eli. Find the earlier posts in the series on the author’s page.)

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The Second Law underscores the ultimate increase of entropy and disorderliness in all physical systems. At the same time, even inorganic, but in particular life processes and consciousness, are able to create, maintain and increase order, seemingly, at least temporarily. Such order is manifest in both individual and complex networks of specific embodiments: molecules, organisms or eco-systems.

Consciously disciplined intelligence, applied to the design of universally advantageous configurations of energy and matter — arranging and rearranging components of the physical domain — provides the essential tool for creating the wealth infrastructure required to ensure lasting abundance.

Contrary to the potential immanent in aware, superior design for creating order and delaying the proliferation of entropy, our current industrial infrastructure is wasteful, destructive, fragmented and grossly inefficient. With the appropriate intention, it could be reinvented, redesigned and reconfigured to deliver and enhance an enduring, regenerative advantage for all.

The First Principle:

Contain entropy and ensure that the flow of resources, through and within the economy, is as nearly non-declining as is permitted by physical laws.

Policy and Operational Implications:

• Strive for highest resource productivity
• Amplify performance with each cycle of use
• Employ “income” rather than “capital” sources and continuously recycle non-regenerative resources
• Affect an unbroken, closed-loop flow of matter and energy in a   planetary productive infrastructure conceived as a whole
• Control leakages and avoid stagnation, misplaced concentrations or random diffusion of chemical elements during cycles of use
• Establish a service, “performance leasing” orientation for managing durable goods

(Ed. Note: The text on the sustainability principles which will follow, was developed originally in order to provide the recently established Sustainability Laboratory with a coherent framework to guide its work.  The five principles will be published on this blog in a sequence, one at a time, adding up to one complete document at the end. Observations and comments from readers will be most welcomed.)

Introduction

The concept of “sustainable development,” as coined by the World Commission on Environment and Development and with it, the term “sustainability” itself, have been gaining increasing recognition in recent years all around the world. Wide-spread use, however, has been followed by growing ambiguity so that today both terms are employed within a very broad spectrum of meaning often, to the point of trivialization.

The set of five Sustainability Principles proposed below is offered in order to advance and restore some rigor to the underlying ideas. Its development was informed by a number of existing frameworks and was inspired, in particular, by the work of R. Buckminster Fuller.

The principles are articulated in a general fashion but can receive a specific operational meaning in relation to particular sectors of the economy, development issues, business strategies, investment guidelines, or initiatives taken by individuals. They are expressed in relation to five fundamental domains:

• The Material Domain: Constitutes the basis for regulating the flow of materials and energy that underlie existence.
• The Economic Domain: Provides a guiding framework for creating and managing wealth.
• The Domain of Life: Provides the basis for appropriate behavior in the biosphere.
• The Social Domain: Provides the basis for social interactions.
• The Spiritual Domain: Identifies the necessary attitudinal orientation and provides the basis for a universal code of ethics.

The result is a set of five core principles, each with its own derived policy and operational implications. The set is fundamentally systemic in nature, meaning, that each domain affects all the others and is affected by each in return.

This systemic aspect is fundamental. It reflects the interdependent nature of reality itself. It has far reaching implications for policy and for any competent attempt at strategy for change. It implies that in seeking a transition to sustainability as a predominant planetary state, no piece-meal approach — emphasizing some aspects while neglecting others — is likely to yield effective, lasting results.

Definition of sustainability

Transforming society and the world’s economy to a sustainable basis presents the most significant challenge to the 21st century. This challenge is unprecedented in scope. Its context is the planet as a whole. It requires a fundamental shift in consciousness as well as in action. It calls for a fresh vision, a new dream and new approaches for shaping an evolving new reality.

Earth is exquisitely configured to accommodate life abundantly. We have consistently compromised, however, every vital component of its intricate fabric. This trend must be reversed and a lasting balance restored.

The ultimate objective of establishing the concept of sustainability as an organizing principle is to foster a well-functioning alignment between individuals, society, the economy and the regenerative capacity of the planet’s life-supporting ecosystems. This alignment represents a particular type of balance in the interaction between a population and the carrying capacity of its environment. It is this specific balance which must be the focus of a meaningful definition of sustainability.

The currently prevailing definition of sustainability emphasizes cross generational equity, clearly an important concept but one which poses difficulties since it is not always easy to determine future generations’ needs. Anchoring an alternative definition to the relationship between a population and the carrying capacity of its environment offers superior operational

Leverage, since it contains a number of key variables, all potentially measurable. For example: population numbers, rate of consumption of resources, impacts on absorption capacity of sinks, a measure of well-being, and the like. Hence, in general, but more importantly in the specific context of human activity on the planet, the following is offered:

Sustainability:
A dynamic equilibrium in the processes of interaction between a population and the carrying capacity of an environment such, that the population develops to express its full potential without producing irreversible adverse effects on the carrying capacity of the environment upon which it depends.

The principles which follow are grounded in this definition, and the five domains in relation to which they are expressed represent key dimensions of the underlying interaction.

The consequences of this “Shock and Awe” noise assault are many; one of which is that we have become addicted to external noise to inform us, form our perception of self and to form our worldview. In this process, we have dismissed and shut ourselves off from our voice of consciousness – our inner scared voice that is our connection to our deepest human values and actions.

Consciousness is still a mystery. The common and most accepted definition is that consciousness is having an awareness of one’s environment and one’s own existence, sensations, and thoughts. Others describe consciousness as being awake and aware—responsive to the environment, in contrast to being asleep or in a coma.

Disease, traumatic injury and toxins are the typical causes of comas. The shock waves from our cultural noise machine are the blunt instruments and toxins that drive our voice of consciousness into a state of coma. And because we are addicted to noise, whenever we enter silence we experience the symptoms of noise withdrawal:

Anxiety
Restlessness
Confusion
A sense of not belonging
Fear

Increased heart rate
Dry mouth
Rapid breathing

Comatose Stroll

As I was leaving my neighborhood the other day there was a young woman walking in exercise clothing, almost in the middle of our narrow street. As my car approached her, she maintained her middle of the road position.  I noticed that she had earphones on and she couldn’t hear me approaching. I cautiously pulled along side of her. She glanced over with a surprised look on her face. I rolled the passengers window down and apologized for startling her and told her about a 15-year old girl whom a bus recently killed because she walked into an intersection. She had earphones on and was texting just before she was hit.

Instead of being interpreted as signs that we are losing our awareness and responsiveness to our environment and to our humanity we allow these symptoms to compel us to seek and crave more noise.

Each morning the masters of noise awake us with a barrage of external noise to send us off on our comatose journey we call the day and to provide us with our initial injection to keep the withdrawal symptoms at bay. The journey is well scripted and rehearsed with multiple venues and opportunities to be radiated with doses of noise. And each day the scared spaces of silence become increasingly extinct and more difficult to access. Without these sanctuaries and havens from “the noise” our addiction deepens and we further alienate ourselves from our voice of consciousness.

Silence and noise have always been essential to our survival and understanding of our world. We require silence to understand and appreciate the true meaning of noise. And although the dangers of today are significantly different than ones of thousands of years ago, we still need silence to navigate and understand our external and internal world. More importantly we need silence to experience our inner voice of consciousness through which our humanity speaks and keeps us grounded in our world.

I believe that both noise and silence are needed and both serve a critical purpose in helping us navigate our world. My supposition and fear is that the balance between silence and noise has been breeched. We have reached a tipping point in which noise is flooding our senses and drowning out our consciousness at time when “normal” consciousness is not adequate. The magnitude of the dilemmas confronting humanity requires the highest levels of human consciousness. We desperately need our voice of consciousness, both to bring balance into our lives and to serve as a guide to accessing higher and deeper levels of consciousness. This will allow us to create the solutions the world needs to thrive and sustain itself.

Can we restore the balance? Can we confront our noise addiction and have the courage and resilience to endure silence? Without our voice of consciousness we would not be present on earth. If we remain in our coma, the quality of our existence and potentially our survival is at risk. We must reinstate our voice of consciousness to its essential and natural position as “keeper of our being”. It begins with a commitment to finding a place of silence, designating this space as scared, and going there each day to listen to our voice of consciousness.

In the last century, as populations have become more urban than rural, many of us have lost our conscious connection to the natural world. We may note the change of seasons–warmer or cooler weather, longer days or nights–but have largely forgotten the significance of the Earth’s annual journey around the sun as it tilts on its axis.

This yearly orbit is linked with much larger cosmic movements, as Earth moves counterclockwise through the twelve signs of the Zodiac, each about 2160 years, and completes what is called the Precession of the Equinoxes about every 25, 950 years. All of these cycles, as well as the shorter lunar and solar cycles, were known to the ancients. The Mayan calendar gives evidence of this, and many monuments around the Earth similarly indicate that the movements of the heavens were well observed.

According to interpreters of the Mayan calendar’s long count, December 21, 2012 is the date when all of these cycles–short and long–complete, as Earth and Sun align with the dark rift at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Some plausibly argue for other dates, but the Winter Solstice of 2012 (Summer in the Southern Hemisphere) is now part of the collective consciousness of our time, as media focus on this date builds.

What precisely will happen then no one knows, but speculation ranges from Doomsday scenarios to the ushering in of the Aquarian Age of enlightenment and peace, with all species including the human living sustainably on the Earth. I am firmly in the latter camp, as those who have read my book, Spiritual Wisdom for a Planet in Peril: Preparing for 2012 and Beyond,” are aware. Our task is to bring about the most positive outcomes for ourselves and our planet.

The Summer Solstice on June 21 offered an opportunity to reconnect with the natural rhythms of Earth and to celebrate the time when the sun at its zenith appears to stand still in the heavens. Now light wins out once more over darkness, as the longest day of the year marks the beginning of summer. From this day forward to the December solstice, daylight diminishes again until darkness settles in and winter pulls us inward.

Summer is an expansive time, when all things seem possible. Now through the autumn equinox on September 21 is a time of great abundance, as Earth nourishes her species through growing plants, plentiful waters, and new generations of animals, birds, and insects. Our home garden produces a rich bounty of lettuces, tomatoes, squash, beans, and herbs, offering us fresh, nutritious meals through September. Last year one of our pumpkins, harvested in July, lived on our front porch through January, before the frost turned it rotten. Mocking birds nest in our yard, large bumblebees buzz around our purple ice plants, and the butterfly bushes in our side yard attract many beautiful species. Wild blackberries turn ripe and disappear quickly as the local deer population gobbles them up. Visual and edible symbols of Earth’s abundance are one of the great joys of summer.

Since ancient times, people have celebrated the Summer Solstice as the victory of light over darkness. Monuments like England’s Stonehenge are gigantic calendars marking the Earth’s turning toward the light and have become sites of annual festivals to give thanks to the Divine for the life-giving sun.

On a number of occasions, I have traveled to power points and sacred sites on the planet to participate in solstice or equinox celebrations: Stonehenge, Chitchen Itza in Mayan Mexico, Egypt’s Giza Plateau, Ireland’s Newgrange, and Chaco Canyon in New Mexico among them. In these and other locations, ancient astronomers and priests left solid evidence in stone of the path of the sun’s seasonal alignments so that their communities could anticipate and benefit from this knowledge. Ancient gods were worshipped as bringers and sustainers of life.

Now science confirms what spiritual people have always known intuitively: the interconnected web of life throughout the universe that flourishes, dies, and is reborn in new forms and patterns, as the process of creation continues to unfold throughout time. The evolution of human consciousness that 2012 is about is one significant culmination of a more than 16 billion year old cosmic process, and those alive today may experience this shift.

On last year’s summer solstice, I joined an annual ceremony in northern Michigan led by several generations of Ojibway women at the site of petroglyphs sacred to their people. The women hauled water in purifying copper buckets from a nearby stream to cleanse the large rock on which the ancient messages were written for our own time. Barefoot, grandmothers and their daughters and granddaughters scrubbed the rock with brooms, then offered a traditional feast representing Earth’s bounty to guests. It was a wonderful way to honor Mother Earth and ancestral wisdom.

This year I had intended to join a group of spiritual energy healers at another ancient sacred site, the Serpent Mounds of Ohio, to ground and amplify healing energy through the site, connecting with the Earth’s grids to bring a higher dimension of healing and harmony to the planet. Instead, I stayed home to be with visiting family. However, through the power of the internet, you don’t have to travel around the globe to join in a summer solstice celebration. At 8 p.m. EDT on June 21, I tuned into the Concert for the Living Water at www.liveh2o.org and joined millions around the world in sending love and healing through thought, intention, and chanting to the Earth’s oceans, lakes, rivers, and streams. I concentrated especially on the Great Lakes because of their importance and my own spiritual connection to these great bodies of water.

Feeling very aligned with the intention of this experimental gathering held around the planet and virtually through the internet, I was grateful to be able to contribute through this medium to cleansing and healing the waters. We know from the work of Japanese scientist Dr. Emoto, who was involved in this project, as well as from the science of energy healing, that water holds memory and vibration. As humans and invasive species have polluted the life-giving waters on which all life depends, their healthy vibrations have shifted and diminished. Through our collective intention, we can change that, and this concert held, appropriately, on the summer solstice was a way to focus and amplify our energy through the sound frequency of love. As the www.h2o.org website states, “love is the universal healer and water the universal solvent.” Bringing these together with amplified power can cleanse and heal us all.

The Concert for the Living Water is a great example of what is possible when each of us joins with others as one voice to raise the vibration of the planet and contribute to the transformation of consciousness that will bring about an era of peace and harmony on Earth. It was especially appropriate that it should happen on the most enlightened day of the year.