Comments on: Sustainable Community - is it a three legged stool? http://richard.sustainablewnc.org/wp/2007/03/26/sustainable-community-is-it-a-three-legged-stool/ Just another Sustainablewnc.org weblog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:10:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: darryl http://richard.sustainablewnc.org/wp/2007/03/26/sustainable-community-is-it-a-three-legged-stool/#comment-5 darryl Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:28:29 +0000 http://richard.sustainablewnc.org/wp/2007/03/26/sustainable-community-is-it-a-three-legged-stool/#comment-5 Richard, Thanks to you and Wally for your leadership and execution on this forum! I agree with your 3 legged stool analogy being inadequate as a complete model of reality. It's like all stool legs are created equal, but one is MORE EQUAL than the other two. I look at the Earth and it's ability to maintain homeostasis as providing the infrastructure that allows all other human activities social and economic. As far as City States being the way we organize human communities...I think we should start by all countries lowering their national flags and hoisting a banner of the Earth as viewed from the Moon to the top of the pole above their national flag. Or possibly a planetary flag with even greater perspective would be a black background with a PALE BLUE DOT and a arrow pointing to the dot with the caption "You are here". Richard,

Thanks to you and Wally for your leadership and execution on this forum!

I agree with your 3 legged stool analogy being inadequate as a complete model of reality.
It’s like all stool legs are created equal, but one is MORE EQUAL than the other two.
I look at the Earth and it’s ability to maintain homeostasis as providing the infrastructure that allows all other human activities social and economic.
As far as City States being the way we organize human communities…I think we should start by all countries lowering their national flags and hoisting a banner of the Earth as viewed from the Moon to the top of the pole above their national flag. Or possibly a planetary flag with even greater perspective would be a black background with a PALE BLUE DOT and a arrow pointing to the dot with the caption “You are here”.

]]> By: IN2L http://richard.sustainablewnc.org/wp/2007/03/26/sustainable-community-is-it-a-three-legged-stool/#comment-4 IN2L Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:17:16 +0000 http://richard.sustainablewnc.org/wp/2007/03/26/sustainable-community-is-it-a-three-legged-stool/#comment-4 Your analysis of the 3-legged stool metaphor makes a lot of sense to me. You can compare it to a person's life - if you do not have your physical health it makes it difficult to work (economy)and to have a social life (society). We must focus on the health of the earth in order to have an opportunity to have a society and then to have a sustainable economy. Your analysis of the 3-legged stool metaphor makes a lot of sense to me. You can compare it to a person’s life - if you do not have your physical health it makes it difficult to work (economy)and to have a social life (society). We must focus on the health of the earth in order to have an opportunity to have a society and then to have a sustainable economy.

]]> By: IN2L http://richard.sustainablewnc.org/wp/2007/03/26/sustainable-community-is-it-a-three-legged-stool/#comment-3 IN2L Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:13:43 +0000 http://richard.sustainablewnc.org/wp/2007/03/26/sustainable-community-is-it-a-three-legged-stool/#comment-3 Richard, Thanks for your leadership here in bringing all these great people to blog here and build a sustainable on-line community. So far, the blogs I have read and the articles posted here are of a high quality. We have an incredible wealth of inspired and knowledgeable people here in WNC. I hope it is enough. As a leader of Interfaith Power & Light, can you put me in touch with the people doing the Christmas Parade float this coming year? I want to help this be a key event in the year when we can inform and infect 100,000 local people that might not typically hear the message about conservation and sustainability. Thanks in advance. Richard,

Thanks for your leadership here in bringing all these great people to blog here and build a sustainable on-line community. So far, the blogs I have read and the articles posted here are of a high quality. We have an incredible wealth of inspired and knowledgeable people here in WNC. I hope it is enough.

As a leader of Interfaith Power & Light, can you put me in touch with the people doing the Christmas Parade float this coming year? I want to help this be a key event in the year when we can inform and infect 100,000 local people that might not typically hear the message about conservation and sustainability.

Thanks in advance.

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