Motivations

The forum is intended as a menu from which viewers and participants can identify and select particular issues of interest to them. My hope is that we can edify each other about specific issues and feel more hopeful with the knowledge that we are not alone as individuals, as communities, or as societies. We also hope that this forum provides opportunities for individual and collective action that can be a source of personal inspiration and civic transformation. Beyond this collective intent of the forum's progenitors, I personally an interested in a global systems-level view of the variety of initiatives and interest groups for environmental stewardship. My working assumption is that there is a whole that is greater and different than the sum of the parts and, particular, that there is the potential for a consumer movement analogous to the labor movement that transformed many societies a century ago.