If you had the power to effect a change in our world what would it be? BlogHer asked the question and I feel compelled to respond. I would want the various communities of the world to have sustainability projects so that there would be consistent employment, a livable community and a love and respect for planet Earth.
Sustainability is not a white thing or an elitist thing or even a green thing. If one community has too much and the other not enough there will be trouble. There is trouble. I would also toss in ethics but I have to keep it to one topic. Wait, I got it, ethical sustainability.
So, I think this is the time where we have to look to create a community - real world in real time folks - that starts with respect for the planet and the people that are on it.
We can create food sources in our immediate areas. We can recycle and recreate our waste products. We can employ the members of our society that we have walled off. There are whole cities that have no industry to speak of except the prison industry. We have the tools and the technology. We can do better.
We must. So in the spirit of BlogHer Acts I would like to propose a focus on equal opportunity ethical sustainability projects. Go Green and all colors in-between but let's cut the crap and get to work.
What The Heck Is This About?
BlogHer is a grand gathering of women folks and some men folks who are gathered together in an electronic community of bloggers.
From the Website:
BlogHers Act will take on two things --
1. Making a difference on a single global cause
2. Identifying the top four issues that women online want the U.S. Presidential candidates to address in order to win our votes in the ‘08 Election.
Imagine the opportunity that’s in all of our hands right now.
All of us know the positive, productive, monumental ACTION of bloggers, especially women bloggers, when rallying around a problem, an issue or an event. Since we started blogging a few years back, we’ve witnessed - and been so lucky to be a part of - countless moments, big and small, when bloggers worked together to make a difference.
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Thanks for interesting info.
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I completely agree with your Sustainability stand. Products conforming to a sustainable standard can cure many social ills at once, i.e. global warming, water pollution, air pollution, toxic waste, human rights...
ReplyDeleteThe only thing lacking to push sustainable standards into place is consumer demand. If women demand sustainable standards like SMART(c), then market pressure will cause companies to comply. The standard becomes the law of the free market. Bloghers Acting could be the tipping point. The power of the purse and the post can change the world.
If you'd like to know what SMART covers, go to http://www.sustainableproducts.typepad.com. The non-profit MTS created the standard which took five years of balanced, consensus voting before it was approved.
Mary Hunt