The Human Elements
As neighborhoods are mapped, people engage in the KRP process growing the folks who are able to connect communities, find commonalities and generate discussions based on core human values. This also creates the representative leadership of the project and the ability to influence changes in policy, zoning and infrastructure to better reflect the needs.
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Building from core human value and commonality, you have created a truly bipartisan approach to change. This allows the broadest possible outreach and influence possible, across a diverse spectrum.
This brings up the question of what changes are likely to make the greatest impact. This is also where you need to put down the cultural approach of what you know and look beyond to what exists. |
A Human Infrastructure
At the core humans have some very specific needs. Those needs are not being very well served in this culture, people are hungry, homeless, unemployed, and it is not getting better. The vast majority are one paycheck away from being in the same boat. More to the point our agriculture practices are killing the soil and the nutritional value of our food is 50% of what it was in the 1960s. Add to that that aquifers all over the united states are about to fail, yes the ones big ag uses, and food will be a national issue, prices will soar and people will go without. The power infrastructure has not been significantly upgraded since the 1960s. We can do better!
Why does this not already exist?
It does, in Germany, and other places in bits and pieces. For the same reason that we cannot take meaningful action on Climate Change, it is not in the interest of corporate profit. There are many ways to say this that all lead back to this truth. To change this and address the many other changes necessary to create a human culture and true resilience it requires a grassroots effort that has not been seen this century. And if we do not come together, now, our future, and our children's, looks stark indeed.
It does, in Germany, and other places in bits and pieces. For the same reason that we cannot take meaningful action on Climate Change, it is not in the interest of corporate profit. There are many ways to say this that all lead back to this truth. To change this and address the many other changes necessary to create a human culture and true resilience it requires a grassroots effort that has not been seen this century. And if we do not come together, now, our future, and our children's, looks stark indeed.
In your hands
