<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Mike Nickerson <<a href="mailto:sustain5@sympatico.ca">sustain5@sympatico.ca</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">March 17, 2012 6:07:40 PM GMT-04:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Mike Nickerson <<a href="mailto:sustain5@web.ca">sustain5@web.ca</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Shifting Society's Goals.</b></font></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dear Friends of Sustainability and the 7th Generation:<br><br>You are among thousands of people with whom we've connected around shifting society's goal toward long-term well-being. Each of us holds parts of the solution in our hearts and minds. I'm grateful for your interest and efforts toward change. There is much we can accomplish by staying in touch.<br><br>Monthly updates are now available:<br><a href="http://www.sustainwellbeing.net/welcome_aboard.html">http://www.sustainwellbeing.net/welcome_aboard.html</a><br><br>My apologies if you receive this more than once. I'm sending it to all my lists as this will be the last general mailing from the Sustainability Project. Except for personal communication, from this message forward, our news, ideas and projects will only be shared via the mail system linked above.<br>Please sign-on. I promise no more than one email a month.<br><br>Shifting Society's Goals:<br><br>It is time for a new goal; one that is fair to all and protects the Earth. After thirty five years studying cultural evolution we've now refined what we have discovered about changing our world into this free ten part mini-course on shifting society's goals. One short article or video will come each week, if you ask at:<br><a href="http://www.sustainwellbeing.net/minicourse.html">http://www.sustainwellbeing.net/minicourse.html</a><br><br>As individuals, our lives move from youthful growth to maturity. So too, as human activity touches planetary limits, our species faces maturity. The hope and enthusiasm needed to create a viable future for humankind are only as far away as a shared recognition of the challenge we face and of a responsible goal focused on long-term well-being. Together we can cultivate such recognition.<br><br>Each of Us Can Help:<br><br>Creating a society that has not existed before requires that people talk with each other. The more that people initiate conversations about better ways to live, the more others start to feel that it is possible. We've spent years collecting food for thought and topics for conversation at:<br><a href="http://www.SustainWellBeing.net/">http://www.SustainWellBeing.net</a><br>To make a difference, learn something new and/or share your thoughts and feelings with a new person every week.<br><br>It may feel awkward to change the topic from consumption and growth to long-term well-being, but what have we got to loose, except everything we love. Such conversations are an opportunity to look deeper into why you believe what you believe and to ask others why they believe what they believe. This is how society evolves. (Award winning musician Terry Tufts provides this song, "In the Language of Love," to convey the feeling that awaits us when we step outside the conventional paradigm and take steps toward the new order.<br><a href="http://www.SustainWellBeing.net/Terrys_song.html">http://www.SustainWellBeing.net/Terrys_song.html</a> )<br><br>Please share this if you think it would interest others.<br><br>Thank you for your interest. I hope we can travel this path together.<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Yours, Mike N.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Sustainability Project / 7th Generation Initiative<br><br><br>Resources available for Shifting Society's Goals:<br><br>The Question of Direction program highlights the fundamental choice that we have to make.<br>It is introduced as "The Challenge and the Goal" at:<br><a href="http://www.SustainWellBeing.net/challenge_and_goal.html">http://www.SustainWellBeing.net/challenge_and_goal.html</a><br><br>- "Seeds for Change" are small cards that make it easy to raise the issue,<br><a href="http://www.SustainWellBeing.net/seeds.html">http://www.SustainWellBeing.net/seeds.html</a><br>Not everyone has the words at the tip of their tongues to introduce the topic. These cards provide the introduction, your sincerity makes it a matter of interest to others.<br><br>- A Think Tank Blog/Discussion on the topic of change and how to bring it about. What have you tried? How did it go? What are we up to? What can we learn from each other?<br><a href="http://ssgthinktank.wordpress.com/">http://ssgthinktank.wordpress.com/</a><br><br>- The free mini-course on Shifting Society's Goals, Project Updates and the Think Tank blog are all explained and linked at:<br><a href="http://www.sustainwellbeing.net/invite.html">http://www.sustainwellbeing.net/invite.html</a><br><br><br>To be truly radical is to make hope possible,<br>rather than despair convincing.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Raymond Henry Williams<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>------------------------------------------------------<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br>Sustainability Project - 7th Generation Initiative<br>Lanark, Ontario<br>K0G 1K0<br><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:sustain5@web.ca">sustain5@web.ca</a><br><a href="http://www.SustainWellBeing.net/">http://www.SustainWellBeing.net</a><br></div><br></body></html>