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A vision for the future is crucial to guide our decision making and for us to gain perspective over the long term. There is power in vision; it can assist us in negotiating challenges on our way forward; it can redefine our current reality as it relates to our goals and dreams; and it can inspire, helping us face the decisions ahead as we make the transitions necessary toward a more just and sustainable world.
We envision a world where humankind lives in balance with our natural support systems; where resource conservation is again recognized as a core conservative value; where pollution is decidedly unacceptable; where the current population lives within it's own ecological footprint, putting back more than it takes, leaving a better world than the one inherited. We envision a world based upon sustainable energy sources: solar; wind; biomass; fuel cells; and where appropriate, geothermal and hydroelectric. We see a world capable of meeting its energy demands by devoting itself to clean, renewable sources, and by aggressive commitments to conservation. Too often underplayed, conservation holds the key to reduced demand and to greater awareness of what energy we use and how to reduce its use.
We envision a "post-carbon" carbohydrate-based economy, with dwindling fossil fuel reserves used only for things that are difficult to create using other resources, such as some medicines and plastics. We envision the rise of community-based models for meeting all of our needs. This "localization" trend is necessary to balance the destructive effects of the globalized monetary system, which has no regard for anything not measured in dollars and needs vast reworking to incorporate human and earth-centered values. We envision solutions like converting waste to energy as elegant demonstrations of a way forward that we can be proud to pass on to our children. We see all this as possible. We are committed to making it real.
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