INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE EDGE OF EVOLUTION .......... Instructions Drawing from The Mountain retreat
The participants of each Edge course come up with a list of instructions for living on the Edge of Evolution during our weekend retreat
Think creatively for positive change.
Apply creativity
Intend to be on the side of creation, creativity, love, hope
Share ideas, stories
Trust one person can make a difference
Encourage life-affirming behavior
Redefine what it means to live in community
Listen
Imagine positive ecological outcomes
Pursue continuing education
Recycle/compost
Be an energy source, not a sink (a net producer rather than a
net consumer)
Live to benefit all life.
Eat consciously
Stay home
Waste not, want not
Simplify life
Share-make available across tribe
Don't let technology dominate your life-it's a tool
Live simply and well
Appreciate beauty-stop and smell the flowers
Live restoratively-be a restorative meme
Clean up your own act/mess
Don't think of yourself as superior-you're part of the web.
Mother Theresa took care of herself, and so should you
Develop local resources
Respect the rights and interdependence of all life forms
Restore
Voluntary simplicity
Walk lightly on the Earth
Slow down
Eat lower on the food chain
Assume responsibility for yourself
Cooperation rather than competition
Shared ownership of local resources (tools, etc.)
Democracy/Dialogue
Coming from wisdom means higher quality of life
Reduce/recycle
Partnership of men and women
Cultivate non-violence.
Advocate for non-violent conflict resolution between individuals,
nations
Practice non-violence, detachment
Hold institutions accountable for benefiting all life.
Apply "green" accounting
Demand that corporations factor in the common good
Support sustainable products, processes, manufacturing
Zero population growth
Develop alternative energy sources to fossil fuels/nuclear
Develop mass transit
Restructure economy so we pay for the actual value of resources
Ecologically responsible development
Just allocation of world's resources
Individuals and businesses make decisions recognizing their impact
on the interdependent web of existence
Manufacture without unusable waste
Create government incentives to be ecologically oriented
Enlightened ownership
Organic corporations-serve the needs of the earth community
Communal value to land
Use no fuel that harms the environment
Experience the love of the universe.
Be a source of light and joy, rather than whine.
Kids first
Live from our truth
Do no harm
Do unto others.
Act consciously. Live consciously
Love is the only real power
Forgive-no blame
Expand identification
Balance
Value interconnectedness
Surrender the outcome
Think of how actions affect the 7th generation in the future
Prayer
Joy/humor
Be of service
Be open to receiving
Live with compassion/love
Optimism
Meditate/contemplate/be centered
Earth
Don't sweat the small stuff. Save your chits for the important
things.
Gaia
Don't sweat the small stuff. It's all small stuff.
Altruism-Hero with a thousand faces
Practice compassion
Spiritual
Whole Earth
Spirituality-Agape
Whole thinking