What can we do...as ordinary people...to help facilitate a greener future? A future that will include sustainablitly and growth for our generation, our children's generation and for all the future generations to come? I think the answer lies in how we think. Yes, our thoughts are what we need to address. Do we spend a majority of our time thinking about how we can aquire new things and how we are going to pay our bills, our mortgage?

I think...there's that word again...that if we started to shift our thoughts from what we think we need to what we know we want...then I think we can begin to identify how we can change the future sustainability for our own lives. It is about finding the joy, seeing the world with eyes of compassion and love. The world is a living breathing system of life.

If we started to view our own footprint on the planet in terms of each choice we make, conciously or unconsciously. If we became more aware of the ways that either added harm or brought health and restoration, I think we could easily define how much impact we can make, just by making a few small changes in how we preserve/conserve energy, the choices we make and the ways we think. Thinking in terms of cradle to cradle...instead of cradle to grave. Think in terms of renewable energy instead of fossil fuels that are rapidly being consumed. Think in terms of how to redesign our own systems so that they may replicate the systems of nature.

It doesn't take much to start to re-create our own footprint so that it has less impact. It takes thinking. Consciously thinking about the changes we can make to add to the mosaic of changes happening all over the planet...and add our own signature to that change.