Sustainability...

Solving the puzzle…

The box with the beautiful picture on top is the Earth, the pieces inside, are us and everything we love and rely upon. Sustainability involves keeping track of the pieces in such a way that unfolds the image in its entirety, complete and interlocked.

The challenge is, keeping the pieces from getting lost. To ignore sustainability issues is to be penny-wise and pound-foolish. It is a practice that has and will continue to come back to bite us if we do not endeavor to solve it.

I believe that sustainability begins with me, the individual. If I choose products and services which support and embrace sustainability, I exert the most compelling kind of power possible in our consumer driven society. The power for change is a transformational tool that each of us possesses in its fullness. The kind of bottom-up change that I am talking about, builds like a wave and sweeps away obstacles in its path without effort.

Change is occurring all around us as people become more aware, band together in community, rely upon each other, interlock their borders and move forward. When this happens the puzzle becomes more whole and the overall strength of it will carry and sustain the areas where pieces have been lost or misplaced.

It is so important for each of us to shoulder our piece. We must resist the temptations of cynicism and inaction, take up our power and vote, not only in the marketplace and government but in our own lives with the people and causes that matter to us. This is not a heavy burden, it is a joyful one full of hope and new beginnings that builds itself organically, with action and resolve in a most thoughtful and beautiful way.

Have an ever so beautiful, sustainable day!

Please remember to think Globally and act Locally!