Sustainable Social Justice – Changing Our World
“Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”
“There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.”
~ Sun Tzu
For over a century war has been made on us, not with weapons of military might, but economic war intended to utterly control us and steal everything we have. Not knowing, we were manipulated, divided, and began to fight each other.
Individuals hiding behind corporate shields are responsible for this, for the mortgage crisis, for the deaths of Veterans left homeless after serving their country. It will not end until those responsible are held accountable.
Our actions must solve many problems simultaneously. We have in our hands the power to hasten our removal from dependence on oil and ensure justice is done for the many who have suffered and been victimized.
The road to peace, community, prosperity, and freedom is sustainability. We must extract ourselves from the grid of greed and rebuild our world. Beginning with Social Justice projects we can build locally to demonstrate to our fellow Americans why this works for them, personally.
At one time we will show our neighbors, friends, and associates the benefits of sustainability and the difference we can make in the lives of those abandoned to the streets.
The fact is, most people decide what to do based on what they are facing personally. By showing them how they can reduce their cost of living while living better we will have motivated them to adopt sustainable technologies. But they have to see and experience it themselves.
We can no longer afford to ignore those in need. Sustainable housing and effective treatment for PTSD is the best and least expensive way to put these victims of corporate greed back on their feet.
Utah decided in 2005 it was cheaper to provide housing than to pay the expenses caused by their homeless population. Today, they home first. Then they provide services to help the homeless put their lives back together. Other states and municipalities are following their example. But we can do better. Conventional buildings fail to take people off the grid, demonstrating the benefits of sustainable construction. All of us need to get off this grid.
Sustainability lowers recurring costs. It gives us back time we are now spending making money just to pay those looming monthly expenses. For too long sustainability has been geared for those ‘who can afford it.’ This misperception must be corrected.
The most expensive part of a building is the material used for construction. Netzero material which is hydrophobic, fire-proof, resistant to hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and more is waiting to be used in America, as it is now used in other parts of the world.
Visit the Geopolymer Institute, founded in 1979. The material used, various kinds of clay, such as kaolinite, have been used in Oriental medicine for thousands of years. New processing breakthroughs using nanotechnology techniques have made the resulting material harder and even longer lasting.
“Oh, but it is expensive,” you think. Wrong. It is far cheaper than the faux green materials presently in use and includes no petroleum products whatsoever.
The same formula we will be using is also suitable for repairing the bridges, highways, dams, and other infrastructure now deteriorating across America. We need to ensure it becomes the new standard for construction.
First, we home. Then, we heal.
At the same time local organizing for Veterans will begin, using treatments which really work to extinguish the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Today these treatments, different forms of Neurofeedback, are being used to treat drug and alcohol addiction as well. Addictions, as it turned out, are very often self medication used to cope with chronic anxiety.
Dr. Janet McCulloch, a psychiatrist practicing in Kingston, Canada began using Neurofeedback to treat Veterans and became persuaded of its practicality and thrift. She says, “…with neurofeedback we can help more people more quickly and with less expense. That makes sense to me.”
Starting with a sustainable project for homeless Vets we will show Americans a very different future. Along with the Vets being homed and healed they will find solutions to their most pressing problems.
These are powerful messages, changing what those in our own communities think is possible Hope can be reawakened in people who have given up as our actions will convey this powerful message, aiding all of us to heal.
As they recover, Vets will learn new skills opening doors to jobs and enterprises in Green Commerce.
Every person who recovers is another man or woman who will have made a transition into the future we want for all of us.
How do we get the funding, you may wonder. We demand taxpayers be allowed to direct their tax contribution to a local trust, started and run by the taxpayers, to provide a Veterans Village for their town. Would you contribute the taxes you have already paid? In a NY minute.
