1. Know the 5 E’s: 1.ecology, 2. evolution, 3.environment, 4. energy, and 5. entropy (Al Urquhart)
2. Be aware of the Pentagon of Power: 1. power, 2. production, 3, property, 4. profit, and 5. publicity (Lewis Mumford)
3. Environmentalists Anonymous: (Al Urquhart)
Step 1. We Admit that we are powerless over our exploitation of the environment–that our lives have become unmanageable.
Step 2. We have come to believe that we are but a small part of the Earth’s evolutionary and ecological systems. We accept that the power of those
systems is greater than ourselves. (If you want a name for that power, I suggest Gaia.)
Step 3. We have made a decision to turn our lives over to the care of Gaia.
Step 4. We have made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 5. We admit to Gaia, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Step 6. We have made a list of the environmental and ecological systems we have harmed, and have become willing to make amends to them.
Step 7. We have made direct amends to such systems wherever possible, except when to do so would further injure them. [See B. below]
Step 8.Wecontinuetotakepersonalinventoryandwhenweare wrong,promptly admitted it.
Step 9. We seek to improve our conscious contact with Gaia through meditation and deep thought.
Step 10. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we try to carry this message to others addicted to exploiting the Earth’s
natural systems, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
4. Deep Adaptation. The 4 R’s: (Jim Bendell)
1. Resilience.(value); 2. Relinquishment; 3. Restoration; 4. Reconciliation.
5. The 5 L’s: ( Michael Dowd)
1. Love; 2. Learn something new; 3. Laugh; 4. Leave a legacy; 6. Live courageously.
6. Sixteen Words of Advice to Young People in the 21st Century: ( Richard Heinberg )
1. Learn to grow food.
2. Learn to read people.
3. Be trustworthy.
4. Learn to express yourself clearly & Persuasively.
5. Consider making a commitment not to reproduce.
6. Learn to make decisions by consensus and to work collaboratively.
7. Be a person with whom others enjoy working;
8. Learn to repair and use relatively simple technologies.
9. Learn how energy works. Be able to identify the sources of energy in your environment and find ways to harness that energy to do useful work.
10. Learn to defend yourself;
11. Learn to heal the human body via nutrition, herbs, and basic emergency care.
12. Learn to recognize the subjective effects of sex hormones, dopamine, and other brain chemicals, and find ways to use their effects to help achieve goals.
13. Learn about nature.
14.Learn how to produce beauty via art, music, or movement, and how to engage others in creative, celebratory activities.
15. Learn to emotionally process trauma and grief, and to help others do so.
16. Learn when and how to use humor to release tension.