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Timely, take-action activities for the environmental citizen

2/13/2018

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Four Things to Do...
  1. Become informed concerning an issue you care about. Visit a legislator to advocate for the solution you envision.​

  1. Write letters to the newspaper that you read until you get one in, then keep writing.  Keep what you write even if it doesn’t get printed, understanding your “failure” as helping you see important principles through the act of articulating them. Note when your friends and family enjoy what you write and be glad, but what about those who need to hear it?  Can you say it to them in a way they can hear?

  1. Convene a public meeting and find consensus on constructive action concerning an issue people care about. Report that consensus to the legislators you met doing question 1.

  1. Run for delegate.  Tell your friends about the fact that there is a caucus and whoever shows up gets to vote for the delegates to the Convention.  Help them to see that this is the beginning of the political process, that if the caucus does not reflect what the people who care, here, think, and is captured by a group that is simply clever enough to know about the caucus process and gets people there, then the whole political process has less chance to go where it needs to go.

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    The Environmental Citizen​ is for people who want to help meet the challenge of how to live within the biosphere without harming it, and thus protect ourselves, other living things, future generations, and the source of all wealth and value that we hold dear.  It builds on topics in the text Developing Sustainable Environmental Responsibility but is addressed to anyone interested in what each individual can do on their own, as members of the societies in which they live, and as members of the universal group - the human race.

    Designed to easily be used as classroom resources or to offer people direction, many of the articles within The Environmental Citizen include activities, questions, and recommended readings.

    I welcome your input and ideas.

    Kindly,
    Rick Reibstein

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    Rick Reibstein teaches environmental law at Boston University and Harvard’s Summer School. He has helped develop toxics use reduction policy and assistance practices for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and has served as an attorney for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  He has trained businesses and governments in developing programs for pollution prevention, compliance assistance and environmental performance improvement.  He initiated the Massachusetts Environmentally Preferable Purchasing program, founded two Business Environmental Networks and is an individual winner of the EPA’s Environmental Merit Award (2000). Reibstein has published in Pollution Prevention Review, the Environmental Law Reporter, the International Journal of Cleaner Production, the Journal of Industrial Ecology, and the Journal of Ecological Economics, as well as producing many reports, guidance and proposals as a state official.

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Activities
For classes, groups, or individuals seeking to manifest more responsibility for all
  1. Activities for the Environmental Citizen
Sustainability Policy & Events
Events relative to hopes for evolving more world-responsible societies.
  1. Losing the Forest for the Trees
  2. The Great Undoing​
  3. Request for Comment: Overwhelmingly Negative Response to Administration's Environmental Plans
  4. Connecting Distributed Leadership
  5. Reasonable Expectations of Government
Recommended Reading
Opening and Grounding Perspective  
  1. Jennet Conant's Man of the Hour
  2. Louis S. Warren's God's Red Son
Purpose and Contextual Management
What are the Transformations We Should Work to Achieve?  How do we transcend our differences to effect commonality?
  1. Where Loyalty Belongs
  2. The Best Bet
  3. Connecting Distributed Leadership
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