Lifestyle Centres – a Catalyst for effective Green Transition
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How we can optimise circular economy with people power
Lifestyle (action) centres to focus our green transition efforts
To make the green transition work in practice, we first need to make sense of logic bubbles that are holding us back from making congruent systemic changes. Some of the questions that frame our times are: how do we build bridges and develop a collective focus of the local environment and offer possible ideas to move beyond today's adverse economic conditions? How do we bring those on board who believe the climate change is a hoax, or yet another avenue for government taxation?
How do we fill disparate knowledge gaps relating to the environmental stewardship, both in the north and south? How do we overcome dullness and the loss of critical thinking caused by deliberate disinformation and useless information filling our awareness, 24/7 ? How do we address the growing anxiety and trauma resulting from climate change disasters lived through, or broadcast? How do we get unstuck in our lives and work?
How do we connect all that has been disconnected: ourselves, our vales, our dreams, our unfulfilled potential and our higher mind aspirations to nature? How do we address all of these, and how do we heal the society? All under one roof and using one single solution?
Focusing the green transition
If we formulate a vision of a greener and more just world into an inspiring action plan that we can enact daily through activities within our neighbourhood, we could achieve exceptional results for everyone. If we ask ourselves on an ongoing basis: what can enhance our local community? Moreover, if many of us contribute in the ways we can, we move further towards more optimistic outcomes.
When we then add together as many common actions as we can muster to the maximum number of factors that reinforce positive behaviours, we begin to focus and notice a greater collective coherence in our actions to enhance our neighbourhood, save our natural heritage, reduce and replenish our resources, and so on. We think in terms of using less, yet achieving the same. We find greener alternatives to harness resources, whilst also achieving the goal of community renewal. The carefully built-in participation of governments and the focus of tens of thousands of incremental actions can make this aspiration real.
How can we apply leverage in new ways so that we create a plan that helps us interact within it daily in mitigating our impact on the natural world?
In the light of what we know and an international agreement in place such as the Paris Climate Accords, where do we take if from here? Are there any bridges missing, making this 80/20 shift and all positive pledges countries have made so far an integral part of everyone's life?
How can this interaction consist of many automatic actions, almost by-products of different mechanisms in place so that planet mending and regenerating can happen even without our conscious knowing? What's more, on a far broader level than currently perceived. When we create this domino effect of one positive action triggering another positive action, we then are truly operating within this optimal circularity.
The innovation presented here is the work of the Earthvoice editor Kinga Monica. She is available for consulting on practical instigation of the concept, sustainability and ecotourism consulting, internationally.
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