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Right at this moment, you’re doing more than accessing the World Wide Web and reading these words on your computer screen. You’re virtually connecting with millions of Web users around the globe. And that makes you part of a collective consciousness that was unimaginable just a few decades ago.
GlobalForce’s social network provides you with a platform to make the most of that collective consciousness, enabling you to find common ground with other people the world over for the power of good.
Positive change can spread like wild seeds blowing in the wind, and it starts with you. You are the seed.
Start today to help to spread positive change. Post your Member Profile. Share your cause or idea. Reach out to others to help save our planet from devastation. Anyone can join! Speak up and be heard!
Take a cue from TreeHugger’s feature about writer/environmentalist/entrepreneur Paul Hawken:
Paul Hawken: From the ground up
Similar to the Clinton Global Initiative, Hawken believes that leveraging social change – and altering the culture of poverty – is the solution to alleviating poverty. Forget governments and corrupt corporations; the poverty-free future lies in people.
We’re awaiting the next J.F.K., the next Martin Luther King, the next Gandhi, the next Nelson Mandela. We’re looking for those people, and we find them. People like Wangari Mathaai, women or men who do espouse and uphold a lot of these qualities. We give them Nobel Prizes and we’re very happy that these people exist.
But the fact is, that’s not how real change occurs. Real change occurs from the bottom up, it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups and locales and then bubbles up and aggregates to larger vectors of change.
So the movement we’re talking about, the unnamed movement of environmental social justice and indigenous organizations, are forming and collecting to address the salient issues of our time: in poverty and water and climate and the enormous inequities that exist economically in the world, the continuous and rapid degradation of our resource bases, the injustice of pollution itself, in terms of what it does to people’s health and their children.
