How are you involved in improving the environment? Let me know . Here are some things you might like to read, surf to, or see at your local theatre.

Altered Oceans, a multimedia presentation by the LA Times.
Population Trend, a graphic view of why the load on the environment has become so unsustainable.
Overshoot, by William Catton.
Water Follies, by Robert Jerome Glennon.
An Inconvenient Truth, a movie by Al Gore.

I am the founder of the Borrego Water Exchange, a local environmental exchange to bring rational use of groundwater to the small community of Borrego Springs. Water credits are granted and then traded for specific water conservation actions.

Every environmental exchange will confront the tremendous challenge of reprogramming society to use and consume less ... to produce according to local and sustainable parameters. I meet this challenge every day because there are many who believe that groundwater depletion is a problem for future generations to solve ... an overblown theory of 'environmentalists".

How do we program ourselves to enjoy life with less? Less water, fossil fuel, and, indeed, fewer children and death as ordained by nature?

The current load on the environment can be expressed as

Thus, Modern, Western Judeo-Christian Man, Homo Colossus, has expressed and promoted (not intentionally) a path for certain environmental destruction unless all human inhabitants can discover a new language for wealth: namely that the one with the least need in life is the most wealthy.

 The books, movies and blogs will mean nothing unless each of us can commit to a new way each and every day. Will you? Are you? Have you bought your first environmental credit? Does the simplicity of the life of Jesus and Ghandi inspire you?

Thanks for reading and stay This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it . I welcome your thoughts. How are you recoding for the future?