change.

According to a guy by the name of John Marshall Roberts, cultural transformation comes in three ways:

1. By forcing people to change (physical realm): You somehow get control, and then you insist--through regulation or otherwise--that people do what you know to be right. The thing is, once you lose control, the people rebel.
2. By persuading people to change (mental realm): You appeal to the power of reason and get people to support your agenda because it seems rational. The problem here is that someone else comes along and persuades them otherwise. Plus, what we believe with our thoughts isn't what guides our lives.
3. By inspiring people to change (spiritual realm): You appeal to their higher selves and aspirations so that they decide for themselves that they want the change you're after. Then, the transformation becomes a moral compass point.
   

I found these idea's interesting... really interesting.

in the meantime - here's some michael jackson propaganda to look at...

envious.

I was reading about a woman, who had adopted a no-impact lifestyle with her husband for a year and this is what she said in retrospect:

“What I realized was that so many of my rituals were so bad for me (my health), for us (our bank account and all the family time lost to my scurrying off to shop), and for the environment. What I learned from No Impact was that there is a steep cost to supporting all your stuff. To a life devoted to getting and having. In my days of high consumption, I'd been searching for something. It turned out that it was right in my own home.”

You can read the whole article here.

We’ve heard it said many times, that simplicity is important, but here it is in actuality. I’m incredibly envious. Such a life has the ability to recognise the connection that ought to with people, with the stuff in our trolley, the stuff our houses are made of, the stuff in the garden. That is truly inspiring simplicity.

Who wants in?

Check out noimpactproject.org