What's in a name?

I had the hardest darn time trying to find a title for this blog that conveys the sense of sustainability without using the darn ‘S’ word. Hopefully this title gets to that - that we exist in a nest of relationships of which we are mostly ignorant. So we want to encourage respectful and soulful conversation around how we make choices given an understanding that we are all in this together. The local affects the global, the economic affects the environmental, the social affects the spiritual and each in turn affects the other in a complex web of relationships. Besides the growing evidence from emerging science that we are all connected, we must also face the fact, that as physicist and cosmologist Brian Swimme suggests, we are now in a world remarkably different from that of Plato, Newton, or Darwin or other earlier intellects. In the world that they were pondering, humans were one of many species and the natural world was pretty much out there, separate and distinct from humans. As a species we are now both so numerous and so powerful with our increasing technologies, that we are capable of, and in fact are, changing the natural systems upon which we rely for life.

This incontrovertible truth requires us to think differently about our choices today and the legacy and impacts they have for those who inherit what we have sown. This space will thus be used to glimpse relationships in a complex web of life that we are part of. None of us alone are smart enough to know the answers but we hope by raising the possibilities that arise out of recognizing relationships we may collectively learn to make choices that might grow justice, health, peace, and true prosperity for all present and future generations in balance with all that we share this spinning green sphere. That’s our intent. What do you think?