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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello all - friends</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you for all your responses - somehow they all
inter-link for me. From a tuning fork perspective, it is SO important to be the
change you wish to see. And massive environmental degradation, along with
corporate and civic degradation is another face of limited perspectives. Or our
"now" or "here" being too small, with a narrowly focused "me and mine"; my
country not all countries, my short term earnings vs longer term
sustainability... Ane while the process of self-organizing is the same,
the results that show up at different levels of being/complexity are different -
and capable of greater integration.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Which is where Winston's comments come in about
changing the way we keep score. And there is beginning to be some very
interesting work done here. e.g. how do we change GNP to reflect non-cash items
such as environmental impact, quality of life, and the value of unpaid
work (e.g. parenting!!) How can accounting reflect such intangible items as
knowledge and innovation? Mostly this is about making transparent anc conscious
that which has been invisible and taken for granted.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One really good book here is Hernando de Soto "The
Mystery of Capital" - he's a South American economist who makes a solid case
that the lack of legal, individual property rights (i.e. the rule about
owning property - which could include a shanty) is a driving force behind
poverty. I don't know much about this whole area of "changing the rules", and
would love to learn more. It strikes me as something useful that I/we could do
(in addition of course to constantly opening space in self and others for
healing and transformation to show up!!) To put in Ken Wilber 4 quadrant terms,
this is some lower right, collective exterior work, in addition to the all
important inner and process work.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Take care all!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Meg Salter</FONT></DIV>
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<A href="mailto:kinch@SYMPATICO.CA" title=kinch@SYMPATICO.CA>Winston Kinch</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU"
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 28, 2002 9:03 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Point of crisis... Changing the
rules...</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hallo friends:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Whether we are at a "point" of crisis, or
approaching one, or are already sliding down the hill, is moot. But
as some of you have pointed out, we do have the choice of how we
respond.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Something that has been rambling around in
my mind recently is the old saying which goes something like "if you don't
like the game, change the rules".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My sense is that even well meaning
projects/programs like "The Natural Step" - which attempt to educate and
cajole corporate leadership into more "responsible" or "sustainable" or "
restorative" behaviours - will fail as presently constituted because they do
not pay attention to this axiom. And although I have only read excerpts so
far, it seems likely that "Natural Capitalism" may also be guilty of
this omission since it appears to approach the issue of valuation of natural
capital but then bypass it in favor of programs like "radical resource
productivity improvement" (I'm currently reading Korten's "When Corporations
rule the World" so maybe I'll find all the answers there - but I doubt
it...)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It seems to me that a related possible winning
strategy, which could be positioned as not inimical to anyone's
interest, is to <EM>change the way we keep score</EM>: to work toward a
situation where the environmental effects of our actions are not "off balance
sheet" but are in fact <EM>mandated</EM> on the books of corporations and
play a direct part in determining the bottom line - which in turn
determines behaviour (put another way, I can imagine a "novum organum" in
which debits and credits reach beyond the proverbial wall and window to
include the whole outdoors!).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can further imagine a transitional world in
which both "old" and "extended" sets of books are required (the old both/and)
and where significant <EM>financial benefits</EM> (in particular) would
accrue - say via tax implications - from <EM>differential, salutary
</EM>environmental actions. What tickles me about this is that it seems
as though... but I ramble... </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Friends, I know this is not new stuff. But I
wonder if any of you has pondered it as a way forward or might point me
to recent writings/work/organizations active in the arena...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Respectfully submitted,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Winston</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>