Video from artist Sheryl Oring’s Creative Fix project …
It would help to know what people are doing for the Earth. For climate change, for sustainability, for quality of life. Not just what businesses or governments are doing, but any business, government, organization or individual who wants to let people know. Right now, how would you find that out?
This is the beginning of Proxearth, an effort to create more sustainable proximities on Earth (both more sustainable and more of them). Proxearth was founded by David Loughry, creator of ProxThink.
This site puts into action some of the ideas in the What You Can Do section of the Proxearth proposal. It addresses what are perhaps some of our greatest areas of need regarding climate change and sustainability, which may be coordination and collaboration at local, regional and global scales. We urge you to read the Proxearth proposal. There is a lot more to the proposal than collecting people’s comments, as we’re doing here.
The Social Media Users page describes what you can do if you have a blog, website, or use social software such as Twitter, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Flickr and so on. This is another aspect of the Proxearth proposal.
Whatever you do for the Earth is a proxri. A proxri is a reward which relates elements in the proximity. More here.
A note about the Proxearth name: It references the proximity of Earth. And further, the multiple proximities on Earth. Here we’re using the term proximity as used in the ProxThink framework for thinking, creativity, innovation and growth. ProxThink is an integrated set of ideas, tools, models and standards for relating to the proximity of situations. The proximity consists of elements related or potentially related to a situation. The current state of Earth is a situation we face. It seems clear we need some new options for relating to the proximity of this situation. That was the origin of the Proxearth proposal.
Are you a climate change skeptic? Please read this.
It’s a big Earth, and a small Earth, and we don’t have another one.
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