Designing the future of the Earth Cooperatively.

Universal Platform for Developing Sustainable Earth Vision /Model Cooperatively
( www.modelearth.org/seed.html )

A sustainable world can never be fully realized until it is widely
envisioned. The vision must be built up by many people before
it is complete and compelling. (Meadows 2004, p273)

(Although I don't think that such a vision ever can be "complete"--I
think that such a "vision" has to be honed to a perfection for ever,
as our knowledge, on any subject, can never be "complete" -
Hearthstone.)

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To
change something, build a new model that makes the existing
model obsolete. (attributed to Buckminster Fuller, though I have
not been able, so far, to find the source)

One can--and eventually must--decide that a fate is an
inadequate substitute for a future. (Umair Haque
http://www.twylah.com/umairh/tweets/ - might not be accessible
forever--use Internet search--"fate", "substitute", "Haque")

We have to know what kind of a world we want to live in, if the one that we
live in now we don't like.
The challenge is to come up with an idea of a world that would optimally suit
us all; an ideal that all of us on Earth could focus on and strive for--a
harmonious, truly sustainable co-existence of us all on Earth.

It has to be an ideal accessible, discussable, and amendable by every- and
any-body at all times--the germ of a true global (and, of course local at the
same time) governance--a government where the governing would be done
by the means of a vision/model in common worked on, held and
striven for by all continuously.

The valid competition would be to improve on the ideal (vision/model), and
to find better ways of achieving this ideal, instead of competing for
advantage over others to the detriment of the whole, as has the prevalent
practice been till now.

There would, eventually, cease any need for "leaders" and
"followers"--everyone would have the potential to take a part in
embodying their own ideas (in concert with the wishes for an ideal
existence of all others) in the continuously being shaped collective
vision/model. The resulting collective vision/model would not be
static--an ideal could not remain an ideal without the possibility of
improving on it perpetually. It would be a space to resolve any
differences, controversies, conflicts, and any complaints that there
ever might arise among us; it would become a superior way of a
collective self-rule.

... (more at www.modelearth.org/seed.html ).

Thank you, sincerely -

Mr. Jan Hearthstone.