Illustration A — TIS Public Media Subscribership Interacting with the Resources of the Institute for Human Sustainability

TIS Public Media SubscribershipExplanation:

  • I4HS provides non-position, non-partisan training and resources to train and support individual citizens to participate wisely in the development of socially sustainable options for the development of themselves, family, communities and their larger society.
     
  • I4HS trains individuals and teams how to use the resources of I4HS so they become capable of making contributions to the growing library of social sustainability wisdom.
     
  • It is important that I4HS remain unaffected by the exercise of power, control and authority of political, economic, and corporate interests that will occur to influence the course of developing sustainable communities and nations.
     
  • In order to provide a neutral and dispassionate service to individual citizens and social organizations, I4HS must be designed as a socially sustainable ethical organization. Doing so, it then provides a neutral, ethical model for other organizations, one that takes no position toward any social topic or issue, but facilitates the public dialogue of public issues.
     
  • Members of local Teams are able to connect with other teams and members to create a “public media,” in some respects similar to social media networking. Individuals and teams can then collaborate and learn from each other, speeding the process of design construction, validation, moral validations, and plans for implementation.
     
  • Combined, Social Sustainability teams and members interacting with I4HS functions create a Type II learning organization and system for the benefit of all democratic societies. This begins the process of creating societies as Type II learning organizations for the first time in human history.