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Think Act Vote - the future I choose January 31, 2012

I'm writing my response to Website -  Think Act Vote  - http://thinkactvote.org/

We were asked to give various responses, and I wanted to include my contact details and live links to web-pages that don't exist yet, but will later. This post will serve as a temporary solution, and I'll update it when those web-pages are ready.

To contact me now:  

Please send your email address to me, pamela.mclean@dadamac.net  Please put "Collaboration Groups" as the subject so your details will end up in the right place

These were the questions and my answers

  • What is the FUTURE that you choose?

I wrote that up and included mention of Collaboration Groups.

  • What’s an ‘ACT !’ to create this future? [An ‘act’ is something that we can all do to help create the future that you choose]
My reply - Look out for people you know who have time to put energy and skills into their local Collaboration Group - and encourage them to get involved (especially if they are repositioning themselves in the world of work, or preparing to enter it for the first time, and can get seriously involved with others on new long term projects).

I'll put more detailed information here about local Collaboration Groups once they are up and running.

  • What’s a ‘VOTE X’ to create this future? [A ‘vote’ is a pledge of support to something that you believe is creating the future that you choose]
My reply - Give me your email address so that when the Collaboration Groups get properly underway I can let you know.
  • What is the FUTURE that you choose? [What kind of world do you want to live in? You can read more about the question here, and some answers that we have already received here. It can be a sentence, or up to 200 words)

My reply was: The future that I choose - and am working on through Dadamac and Collage:

 

  • It knows that resources are finite.
  • It has rejected ideas of infinite growth and adapted accordingly.
  • It values people for who they are and how they treat each other, not for what they own.
  • It celebrates creativity and participation.
  • It is bewildered and disgusted by competitive consumption and conspicuous waste.
  • It has local Collaboration Groups where people contribute their time in order to share skills, knowledge, creativity and resources - benefitting themselves and the wider community.
  • There is easy collaboration across age groups, and other cultural differences, so people at different stages of life and different backgrounds can all benefit from various perspectives and contributions.
  • Decision making processes are transparent.
  • People carrying great responsibility are valued and supported in ways that help them carry those extra burdens, but they are not overly rewarded in material ways.
  • Things are local enough for people to feel known, supported and valued in their community, but not suffocated by it.
  • Things are global enough for people connect with others far away to share ideas, knowledge, wisdom, friendship and practical problem solving.

If this idea of a future appeals to you, please contact me.

Pamela.