The Importance of Global and Personal Change

In developing an understanding of sustainability its helpful to think of the fact that it requires a change in personal and world view.This may entail quite a major leap in lifestyle but also the underlying values that underpin such decisionmaking and change.We cant underestimate such work and practice.Inherent in wanting to live more sustainably is a sense of balance.But what sort of balance are we talking about?Is it a personal health and wellness type balance between work and leisure to reduce the stresses and strains of living in our modern scenarios/work etc.Is it about less materialism,consumerism,living more simply?Is it about environmentalism and a greener approach to living in an urban environment?Is it about growing and eating food in a slower more quality way?There are many links that are increasingly being made as the world seems to become more networked and less abstractedly interlinked and bound up to each other.

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A question of interpretation and connections

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many times these days we are not making enough connections of innovation and advancement in different fields of study and work that can if acknowledged and understood , add to the further development of an understanding of eco solutions and true balance in sustainability(is that an oxymoron?)Anyway what I am saying is that there is a need to have a broad brush and networked linking ...as allowed and promoted by the technology and approaches/concepts of internet/www.I believe it is called transversalist/transversalism...(dont quiote me...just a academic thumbnail note to point the direction)
The answers for survival and inspiration can be found in many fields ...but we must look and listen attentively.An Example is the permacultural movements and appropriate technology movements and ideas...they look for a balance between ecology, independence,sociability innovative and appropriateness of technological innovation...a type of responsible stewardship.the concepts need to be dusted off again and rebnjewed or further inform the sustainability debate at many levels.Though there is not a sophisticated global response entailed as well as clear senses of social justice(which continually gets redefined depending on value sets)there is at least some building blocks for balance.Ethical investment and the funding of sustainable business and business relations is another sphere of this tying in that neeeds to take place as an approach to global and yet local networked change.The investments have implications for funding and support of projects and reach into the spheres of personal superannuation in this and other countries wher we are the funders of such wealth...albeit being largely directed by management /directorships as our proxies.There needs to be tighter accountability requirements as to what these funds are investing and funding...and I /we need to direct and know more about this.this especially so as some of the largest funds are union and industry based that could really influence sustainable work/business practices in a big way.

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