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The Need for Designing the Future Collaboratively:
To Whom the Future of the Earth Might Concern.

I propose that the differences that there exist among all our ideas--ideas of all who share this planet--about what our common existence on this planet should ideally look like be resolved by what-so-ever expedient, appropriate means first by modeling (computer, or any other kind), round table style discussions at the community level, and any such--before those differences resolve in real life, causing real waste of lives, resources, and time occurring in real world.

Once there is a clear idea of what we all agree that our common existence in this world should look like, it would be practicable to achieve this commonly held ideal.

This contrasts with the way in use now when we are mostly trying to improve our existence in this world by forever fixing the infinite problems stemming from our past mistakes that plague us--and usually causing new problems to arise with our fixes--never knowing well what kind of existence we are trying to achieve, and therefore never achieving any kind of existence that would be fully acceptable by all.

Please read "Designing a Lasting Peace Together" - http://www.modelearth.org/peace.html, where the need for collaboratively designing the future of the world could be seen best.

Please see Some Suggestions for Designing a Sustainable Earth Co-operatively(http://www.modelearth.org/princmodsus.html).

N.B.
The concept of designing the future collectively described in these pages owes its existence to the Mahayana philosophy ( http://www.modelearth.org/mahaecosoc.html ) and to ideas presented in The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz, which I paraphrase and quote from often, not always necessarily acknowledging this.

The State of the Ideal Earth Design.

Jan Hearthstone

The State of the Ideal Earth Design.
online: www.modelearth.org/state.html

I am trying to find out what is there in the world that deals with collectively designing how we all should ideally exist together in this world.

Currently there is no clearly defined, referable to, by anyone accessible and by anyone amendable model of an ideal, sustainable Earth yet.

Listed bellow are some of the most prominent, promising, for modeling the ideal state of the Earth potentially important concepts:

*) Donella Meadows concept of "envisioning"/"visioning".

There are currently many groups and communities in the world that purport to be creating "visions" of how a group, or a community should live together; "visions" created by, if not all of the members of those groups and communities, then, at least, by more than one person, using methods that derive from Donella Meadows' "envisioning"/"visioning" (Meadows 1996) concept that ultimately owes its origin to Robert Fritz's TFC (Technologies For Creating) as originally introduced in his The Path of Least Resistance (Fritz 1984).
The Donella Meadows' "envisioning"/"visioning" cannot really be properly understood without understanding the very clear Robert Fritz's TFC concept (Fritz 1984) of creating results that we want.
Please see author's
Donella Meadows' "Visioning": Global Citizens Designing a Sustainable World Together. (Hearthstone 2009)

*) Robert Jungk's "future workshops" ("Zukunftwerkstätte") (Jungk 1987)

Any of the examples of consensual common reality vision creating based on Robert Jungk's "future workshops" that I found so far don't go beyond the scope of a local community, with no results that could really be called "sustainable".

*) ESDA (Future Search)

Ensuring Transparency by "Evolving" the Ideal World Design.

Jan Hearthstone

Ensuring Transparency by "Evolving" the Ideal World Design.
online: www.modelearth.org/princmodsus.html

There exist many notions of what a sustainable world should look like.
It would be possible to accommodate any (provably) sustainable life-styles of varying degree of complexity on Earth--all those could exist in the world without interfering with each other, and without interfering unduly with other life forms that share the Earth with humanity.

It would be possible to model this situation, perhaps not even needing any extensive computer modeling--"gedanken experiments" (note 1) might even be enough, at least at the start; computer modeling might perhaps be used for proving that the more complex sustainable life-styles would, indeed, be sustainable.

The State of the Ideal Earth Design.

Jan Hearthstone

The State of the Ideal Earth Design.
online: www.modelearth.org/state.html

I am trying to find out what is there in the world that deals with collectively designing how we all should ideally exist together in this world.

Currently there is no clearly defined, referable to, by anyone accessible and by anyone amendable model of a sustainable Earth yet.

Listed bellow are some of the most prominent, promising, for modeling the ideal state of the Earth potentially important concepts:

*) Donella Meadows concept of "envisioning"/"visioning".

*) Robert Jungk's "future workshops" ("Zukunftwerkstätte") (Jungk 1987)

*) ESDA (Future Search)

We're Just Too Productive

Submitted by CarolynAllen on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 16:39

Part of our problem is that humans are just too productive -- we're changing the landscape too much, working too many hours, making too much money, etc. And at the same time we're neglecting proper sleep, caring for our children, continuing education, citizenship participation...etc.

So my solution is that we cut down the workweek so that we have time for rearing our children and caring for our health and family, we don't destroy the environment at this rapid pace...and we consume less because we have less money burning a hole in our pockets.

Capitalism with a Human Face: A Proposal for the Establishment of a Sustainable Capitalism.

Submitted by hearthstone on Sun, 01/24/2010 - 01:49

Capitalism with a Human Face:
A Proposal for the Establishment of a Sustainable Capitalism.
online: http://www.modelearth.org/modest.html

Preventing a Ton of Cure: Disaster Preparedness.

Submitted by hearthstone on Fri, 01/22/2010 - 15:07

Preventing a Ton of Cure:
Disaster Preparedness.
online: http://www.modelearth.org/art01.html

Disasters, be they natural or human made, do occur--they have been occurring all throughout human history, they occur even nowadays; they are nothing new to us. They do not surprise us.

Grassroots Government: The World's Ombudsman.

Submitted by hearthstone on Fri, 01/22/2010 - 16:16

Grassroots Government: The World's Ombudsman.
online: http://www.modelearth.org/world-gov.html

Today most people are not represented in their government properly, if at all, regardless where this might be in the world.

Even in the most advanced democracies of the "first world" countries it might take a long time before wrongs being committed on minorities are addressed to a satisfaction; Wrongs committed on individuals might never be considered at all, in most instances, mostly due to the impossibility of people having an equal access to justice.

An open letter to the Obamas.

Submitted by hearthstone on Mon, 01/18/2010 - 17:58

Hearthstone
ModelEarth.Org
P.O.B. 2182
Sebastopol
CA 95473

modelearth [at] gmail [dot] com

12.30.2008

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama,

I wish that you are well!

If we, the people, were really interested in establishing a lasting peace in the world, we would spend more on ways that would achieve peace non-violently than what we spend on the military!

Before strategy

Ted Millich

Before we can implement solutions, we have to have strategies that are agreed up (or, not objected to), but we need better processes for doing that. Our current methods are based in traditional, top-down power-over, mechanical models. These only work partially, and only work well for those who have the power.