| We Can Solve The Economic and Environmental | | | | solutions for new power and fuels, sustainable |
| Crisis By Building an All Inclusive Green Economy | | | | materials for any and everything, and ways to |
| Ironically, at the heart of the massive corrections | | | | radically mitigate carbon emissions; |
| in the global financial markets, record | | | | 2. Governments will get on board or out of the |
| unemployment and a growing sense of | | | | way of ensuring the above can happen; |
| uncertainty as to the future of humankind due to | | | | 3. that we actually buy enough time to get the |
| climate change, exists a stunning array of | | | | above together. |
| possibility, so awesome in scope as to dwarf all | | | | All things being more or less equal, somebody has |
| previous eras of economic activity. Perhaps the | | | | to get billions of people on board making, using |
| Chinese symbol that suggest there is the seed of | | | | and distributing all the stuff that comes out of all |
| opportunity inherent in every crisis as a means of | | | | the radical invention and intervention that will be |
| understanding our current situation. | | | | unleashed. To have a real fighting chance, the |
| Timing however is everything, at what point do | | | | means of production must be decentralised, |
| we arrive at a place of critical mass in terms of | | | | shared and networked. Likewise the rewards and |
| awareness and commitment to act? One degree | | | | means of compensation will shift. Individuals, |
| more of temperature rise? Another foot or two | | | | neighbourhoods, communities can become Open |
| of swelling ocean levels? Of course these are big | | | | sourced socially networked development and |
| broad brush stroke issues. Closer to home, the | | | | production hubs for everything from food, |
| price for a barrel of oil is back in the ascendant, | | | | healthcare to energy, resource management, and |
| and checking the weather increasingly looks like | | | | beyond. |
| sci-fi or a bad horror film. What do we do? | | | | As stated, education i.e., the unleashing of |
| We get busy! Exploring, unpacking and digesting | | | | information, training, and benefit analysis is a key |
| how to re- imagine the world. Regardless of how | | | | driver of the green wave because people will |
| we earn our livings, where we find ourselves, or | | | | need support and refocus on how to adapt, |
| how we've lived up to this moment, everyone of | | | | embrace and create the new paradigm of green |
| us is on the cusp of bold new possibilities to | | | | sustainable, healthy, abundant living. |
| change, heal, and renew. Imagine for a moment | | | | Example, roughly 30-40% of carbon emissions are |
| that you lived at the dawn of the industrial age. | | | | produced by buildings of all types. Teaching |
| Conventional wisdom dictated that when Henry | | | | benefits around energy conservation, weatherizing |
| Ford and other pioneering inventors of the motor | | | | and refitting just our homes would contribute |
| car went calling on investors to back them, that | | | | massively to reduction of emission and create |
| they not be taken seriously, after all the horse | | | | savings thereby putting more money in people's |
| and buggy had been permanent fixtures of life | | | | pockets. Extend this to teaching people how to |
| for centuries. Entire industries, specialist crafts and | | | | compost, grow their own food, harvest water, |
| careers hinged on their survival. And yet steam, | | | | and the benefits grow exponentially. |
| rail and electricity utterly transformed life as it | | | | Furthermore, education will be about teaching |
| was known up to that point. Was this a | | | | citizens that the green wave offers us a wholly |
| tumultuous period full of uncertainty, social | | | | new economic construct i.e. - a social |
| upheaval and all manner of resistance on the part | | | | entrepreneurial economy, one in which society, |
| of saddle makers, blacksmiths and carriage | | | | networked, producer/creator led generates |
| makers? Millions of small scale farmers, were | | | | wealth and well being. As such, we will all be social |
| forced off the land and into factories and | | | | economists, in the original Greek sense of the |
| unthought of occupations. | | | | term - oikonomos meaning - "one who manages |
| What's different? Huge, game changing elements | | | | a household or resources efficiently and profitably, |
| that unlike the roll out of the industrial age that | | | | avoiding unnecessary expenditure or waste. And |
| drove the subsequent fossil fuels economy that | | | | entrepreneurs i.e., from the old French - |
| now threatens life as we know it, we are entering | | | | entreprendre, meaning to undertake a task or |
| a period where we get to march boldly forward | | | | enterprise between parties. The parties in this |
| with eyes wide open, unhampered by the delusion | | | | instance, members of our homes, communities, |
| of zero consequence or costs for unlimited looting | | | | nations and planet. |
| of resources, using our environment as a dumping | | | | The unleashing of the green wave economy |
| ground in service of consumption. This time we | | | | starts with the assumption that everyone can be |
| can choose to innovate, generate and re create | | | | a player and that we all can add value. Again, we |
| products, services and wealth on a scale never | | | | refer to the original Greek meaning for economy |
| before witnessed. The green wave era by | | | | ie management of our households in a sustainable |
| definition is about clean, renewable and sustainable | | | | and profitable manner. Profitable from the |
| development, production and consumption of | | | | perspective of optimising value, extending the life |
| everything. | | | | cycles of everything we use and consume and |
| The green wave is about the convergence of | | | | igniting our imaginations to see ourselves as |
| new technologies with a social mandate that | | | | primary drivers, producers and distributors of the |
| vests everyone. This new wave is about | | | | benefits this new era. |
| rethinking what it means to be one of millions of | | | | Fundamental to the realization of the green wave |
| life forms inextricably linked to a single geography | | | | is a shift in our perception of relationships |
| - Earth. As such, injustice to any element of the | | | | between resources, production and consumption. |
| life web is an injustice to all sooner or later. | | | | Rather than continue along the path of the highly |
| Yea right and what does this have to do with | | | | conflicted story we've been telling ourselves that |
| jobs, money and whether most of us will ever | | | | on the one, hand resources can be exploited |
| see much of either again? Everything! The green | | | | without regard for future consequence or |
| wave is new economics like we've never seen, | | | | availability and then in the next instance - to insist |
| principally because it engenders a wholly different | | | | that resources are scarce, limited and must be |
| paradigm that is about a unique connectedness | | | | hoarded and manipulated to artificially increase |
| based on inclusion rather than exclusion of ideas, | | | | their value, but to push consumption over the |
| ingenuity and effort. The key drivers -education | | | | precipe of reason as long as there's money to be |
| or rather, re-education about new products, | | | | made. |
| services and lifestyle choices and secondly but of | | | | The green wave represents an opportunity for a |
| absolutely equal importance - the delivery of | | | | new paradigm in which we align with the fully |
| products, services and choices to consumers, | | | | observable laws that govern nature ie, abundance |
| communities and businesses. | | | | based on reciprocity, replenishment, imagination |
| Drilling down a bit further, let's get a few basic | | | | and evolution. Even more,the green wave invites |
| assumptions out of the way: | | | | us get excited, enthused and passionate about |
| | | | what we really want and how we really want to |
| 1. Scientists, engineers, inventors and innovators | | | | live. |
| of all stripes will come up with baskets of | | | | |