In love with the good earth


Profit seeking that generates short term, unsustainable practices	Thinking like the Indians who considered the impact of their decisions on the next seven generations.
Competitive	Cooperative
Exploiting the rivers as a sink for industrial and household wastes	Living lightly, with regard for the rivers
Farming with chemicals that kill the life in the soil and errode it, while poisoning the food and waterways	Taking good care of the land to keep the soil living and fertile and the food and water pure and clean
Linear, cradle to grave thinking where valuable resources end up in dumps when products are no longer useful	Circular thinking that closes the loop on the cycles of nature, composting and recycling
Sweatshops and other types of exploitation of the weak, the poor and the third world	worker owned co-ops, right livelihoods and rejection of lifestyles attained by exploiting fellow humans and other species
Status oriented; identity based on expensive material possessions	Focus on inward development and appreciation of lifestyles that can be universalized
Mass media used as a marketing tool to cultivate a consumer culture where people desire resource intensive lifestyles and products	Mass media used to inspire, share ideas, broaden horizons, educate, celebrate life and live sustainably
Centralized economy with focus on large-scale production	Decentralized, human-scale economy where markets are reserved for local people as much as is possible and goods are made from local resources as much as is possible
High consumption and endless war over resources	Frugality, acceptance of resource limitations and creativity in changing over to renewable resources