The numbering in the text below relates to the Organizational Chart numbering. The chart represents integrated organizations that are non-political, secular and non-sectarian, profitable, and socially sustainable. Explanations of each organization will be briefly discussed in the text below. It represents a new profitable organization that is not profit-driven, and not listed on stock market exchanges as it will be a partially employee owned in the beginning, and may become fully employee owned in time.

For a democratic society to become adaptable and self-sustaining, it must incorporate only a few new elements: That society must recognize itself as capable of becoming a “type II learning organization,” capable of examining its failures and successes by identifying the original causes that brought about failure, and those causes that brought about success and support its social sustainability. (3a) The Library must collect the wisdom of human experience from its history, plus contemporary social science research, and identify those causes that bring about failures and successes; and place those learning lessons in a publically accessible repository, a library, of sustaining human wisdom. (3b) That trains citizen how to use that data in a methodology to formulate design-solutions to social issues. (3c) And enables citizens to confer and collaborate with other local community design teams around the world concerning that problem and possible design-solutions.

(4) Education. The work of this section is to provide training and education that supports the sustainability of our species, families that produce socialized and encultured children, and provides curricular designs that could be useful in educational settings to reinforce the socialization and enculturation of children to the time they leave their parental home.

(5) EMANATION. The greatest need for a society to move into social, political, and financial-economic stability is a third party that does not take sides, but acts as a facilitator between the public and their government without abridging any aspect of the Constitution or the rights of individual citizens; but improves the effectiveness of citizens’ interaction with their government; while making a profit to become organizationally and financially self-sustaining. That may seem like a wildly impossible development, but the reality of profit-making social media as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and others begs us to create a “public media” with the same or similar means of income generation.

(5b) and (3c) EM21 and Team Internet System (TIS) are two Internet “public media” subscriber services that provide platforms for dialogue between members and Teams concerning the development of socially sustainable designs (TIS), and the political pros and cons of those designs (EM21).

Motivation always emanates from perceived need. The greater the need the greater the motivation. (Case in point: Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe.) As the crises of the world grow to become cataclysms²⁷ and the closer and more personal those cataclysms come into a person’s life, the more there is a need for personal involvement in the development of the options and decision-making that affect that individual’s life. The work of the Library (3) will provide the wisdom of “what works”²⁸ and does not work, and the training to participate in a local community design team to create potential solutions to social, political, and financial-economic problems.

This proposal is also unique in that it proposes to become a self-sustainable, profit-making enterprise that facilitates an upgrade of democratic representative processes, while remaining unaffiliated and non-aligned with political positions of interest, or special interests; and without manipulating that “force field” to its own ends.

Profit making activities: Advertising, publishing copyrighted family and academic curricula materials, research contracts, design contracts, organizational development consulting, consulting to human resource depts., contracted onsite training, remote and Internet training.

 

~ Practices of Sustainability ~

Our work is to instill and install sustainable practices to support the social sustainability of next-generations, so that those self-sustaining practices become assumed. For us, such discipline must be overt, conscious, and thoughtfully intentional with anticipation of sustainable outcomes.

²⁷ - Diamond, Jared 2005. Collapse. Meadows, Donnela, Jørgen Randers, Dennis Meadows 1972, 2004. Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Update.
²⁸ - Wright, Kurt. 1998. Breaking the Rules.