To enact sustainability and viability, I hold an ethos of proactivity and humanitas in high esteem: Creative, solutions-oriented initiative with clear outcomes envisioned for the near and long term. The notion of empowerment and the idea that everyone can humanely make a difference in the world create the core of my understanding of "humanitas".
I find my bearings in that process of difference making through a spiraling cycle of humane education, empowerment, and engagement which I attempt to integrate into my presence at every event I attend or create. More specifically, I seek to inform, educate, empower myself and others to take relevant and significant action in the world and repeat with evaluation (which enters the next level of the spiral by informing and educating myself and others about what I've learned from the most recent action).
Our personal values and worldviews are fostered by what we learn. These values ultimately inform the kinds of information, problems, and solutions we tend to consider and pursue. In this regard, respecting and cultivating the dignity of others to learn and act through compassion make them crucial habits for social sustainability.
Social sustainability ultimately shapes our capacity to understand and act toward comprehensive sustainability. Social sustainability concerns everything from how we communicate with art, non-violence, education, compassion, love, peace, just governance, and democracy with a backbone in living the humane ethics we aspire to understand and share as individuals and collectively. In essence, when focusing on social sustainability, one strives to cultivate lasting and fulfilling relationships.
Trust, security, confidence in other people, in the land we live with, and any other beings we share the planet with are necessary for taking prudent action. To me, prudent action is the essence of economics.
For resolving complex socio-economic challenges and wicked processes like "the tragedy of the commons", people require trust before they can manifest quality collaboration across a diversity of stakeholders. I'll share the Russian phrase "doveryai, no proveryai", "Trust, but verify." I'll also add that love, even in a fairly definitive non-romantic sense, has its role in conservation (conservation in the environmental and economic sense toward sustainability).
To ensure tangible change, we must look to how our environment--social, economic, and physical changes in a result of our heartfully intended actions.
I find my bearings in that process of difference making through a spiraling cycle of humane education, empowerment, and engagement which I attempt to integrate into my presence at every event I attend or create. More specifically, I seek to inform, educate, empower myself and others to take relevant and significant action in the world and repeat with evaluation (which enters the next level of the spiral by informing and educating myself and others about what I've learned from the most recent action).
"In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught." -Baba Dioum
Our personal values and worldviews are fostered by what we learn. These values ultimately inform the kinds of information, problems, and solutions we tend to consider and pursue. In this regard, respecting and cultivating the dignity of others to learn and act through compassion make them crucial habits for social sustainability.
Social sustainability ultimately shapes our capacity to understand and act toward comprehensive sustainability. Social sustainability concerns everything from how we communicate with art, non-violence, education, compassion, love, peace, just governance, and democracy with a backbone in living the humane ethics we aspire to understand and share as individuals and collectively. In essence, when focusing on social sustainability, one strives to cultivate lasting and fulfilling relationships.
Trust, security, confidence in other people, in the land we live with, and any other beings we share the planet with are necessary for taking prudent action. To me, prudent action is the essence of economics.
For resolving complex socio-economic challenges and wicked processes like "the tragedy of the commons", people require trust before they can manifest quality collaboration across a diversity of stakeholders. I'll share the Russian phrase "doveryai, no proveryai", "Trust, but verify." I'll also add that love, even in a fairly definitive non-romantic sense, has its role in conservation (conservation in the environmental and economic sense toward sustainability).
To ensure tangible change, we must look to how our environment--social, economic, and physical changes in a result of our heartfully intended actions.
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