Biodiverse for Life

We all have the ability to learn how our daily choices, in what we eat, in what we buy (or don't buy), in how we choose to live our lives, affect the natural world, ourselves, our interpersonal relationships, and ultimately our descendants.

Education or ignorance?

Or we can choose to remain ignorant and continue to be preyed upon by large business and institutional entities whose real interest is to maximize profits for themselves, no matter the consequences to others. This type of greed-based system, designed by humans, is resulting in an increasingly impoverished, increasingly toxic world where we are pushed to spend less and less time interacting in, and with, the real world. A world where we are losing our abilities to create our own food and to shape our physical environment through our own individual actions. Click here to go to 'The Story of Stuff Project' site to watch the short "The Story of Stuff" film.

Maturity or infancy?

Many currently employed business models, and the products they sell, feed on our baser, more immature, desires: greed, instant gratification, and narcissism (self fascination). Although they feed on these base desires, they are also specifically designed to make sure these desires are never truly satisfied, so we will constantly be returning to the businesses to give them more of our resources. They create a world where these baser values are the norm. This is a retreat to an infantile state.

Mature adults operate with compassion, empathy, and the ability to put one's self second. They value long term planning and delayed gratification. They have a realistic view of the world and the physical work it takes to live in a way that respects the natural world, the ultimate source of our sustainable security. They develop long term, real-world, respectful, loving, and intimate relationships, the true source of satisfaction and of a fully experienced and rewarding life.

Connection or isolation?

Businesses and technology are useful and good if they provide improved health, products, or services, while protecting and improving our natural world and promoting greater intimacy within our families and communities. Many small business owners are, and have been, using responsible, community-oriented approaches. Current large-scale business models often promote the use of technology to separate us from the real world, while they ravage it. These business models are not derived from the laws of nature, but designed by humans from the laws of infants. Can't we do better?

Take action or be used?

We can design business models and ways of relating to each other, and the Earth, based on humane maturity- if we choose to!
Will we decide what we need; or will we wait to be told what we want? Can a system, ruled by infants and for infants, be stable? Will we choose to look at how we, by default, have chosen to be manipulated?

Empowerment or passivity?

We can all make better choices, and have more enriched lives, through our informed choices. Collectively, these choices have great power to change ourselves and current business and political structures, much more power than voting in our current political system (although voting is also important)!