Roadmap #
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Personal Progress & Plan
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T1
/ Technologies & Innovations that Advance Self-Sufficiency:
Renewable energy, advances that allow all
communities to be energy
self-sufficient; other innovations that allow each community to supply
and provide as many of its basic needs as possible (food, clothing,
building materials, energy, transport & communication), so that
few goods need to be imported or exported outside the community
AND
T2 / Technologies & Innovations that Advance Resource
Conservation:
Invent new materials and portable, configurable,
multi-function products that allow more functionality to be provided
with less weight, size, pollution and resource consumption
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My wife & I have
agreed to sell our executive energy-wasting house and build a new,
solar, energy-efficient and space-efficient home on a large forested
lot near where we now live. We pledge to keep 90% of the lot, on the
Oak Ridges Moraine, in its natural state. The Ontario Green Party has
generously offered expertise to help make it a model, a showcase of
energy self-sufficiency, innovation and resource conservation for
others to learn from.
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S3
/ Promote Vegetarianism:
Teach the benefits and social responsibility of a
vegetarian diet, and vegetarian cuisine |
I'm getting there. My
wife's not a vegetarian, so I'm pledging to learn to cook. I eat meat
no more than 3 meals per week. Giving up dairy will take longer.
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S4
/ Reduce Human Fertility:
Support 'Maybe One' initiatives to get humans to
reduce our population voluntarily |
I've never had any kids of
my own, though I love my two step-children dearly. More on the 'Maybe
One' initiative soon.
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S5
/ Exemplify & Teach Radical Simplicity:
Teach people how to
reduce wasteful consumption, be less materialistic, economically budget
their time & money, and live as comfortably and more freely while
consuming less, and living smarter, simpler and more efficiently |
In addition to the housing
and dietary changes above, I'm working through the Radical Simplicity workbook and
have pledged to reduce our Ecological Footprint by 80% over the next
two years, and get similar pledges from others we know.
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S7
/ Use Consumer Power:
Boycott socially and environmentally
irresponsible businesses and products, and pledge to buy local whenever
possible and affordable. |
Coming up next week: The
Irresponsible Companies list. We're already boycotting them, and have
reduced our dollar spending on non-Canadian goods to five percent of
our total spending. And with Radical
Simplicity I have the data to prove it.
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P1
/ Tax & Regulate Pollution & Waste:
Eliminate subsidies,
revamp regulations and tax laws to reduce waste, resource use and
pollution, and encourage clean, employment-producing, local,
responsible businesses |
I'm working with the Green
Party and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants to lobby for
changes to Canada's tax laws to shift taxes from income to resource
consumption.
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B1
/ Establish New Collaborative Enterprises to Create a New
Economy:
These new enterprises will supplant the old economy
by being
more innovative, more economical, more responsive to customer needs,
and more adaptive to changing public attitudes and laws (P1 to P6
above), rendering the old economy obsolete |
I'm leaving my current
employer and setting up two New Collaborative Enterprises (NCEs): Meeting of Minds (a Social Software
and Personal Productivity Improvement consultancy) and The Caring Enterprise Coach (an
entrepreneurship advisory business and NCE incubator).
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