DAVID R. BROWER
1]. Rescue Main Street from Wall
Street
(the subtitle
of Democracy at Risk , by Jeff
Gates [no relation]).
"Argues
for widespread ownership of capital resources in an era of massive
disparities
of
wealth . . . feasible ways toward a broad-based prosperity around
the world . . . what
modern
economy should look like and be for." --RALPH NADER
2]. Magna Carta
II: in 1215 Barons suffered; many more
suffer now.
3]. Natural
Capitalism - [See
web site] - (Hail the new revolution.
Stress Nature's Services.)
4]. Natural Prosperity. Investing in
natural ecological services instead of speculating
in trashing them yields a sustainable society.
5]. The
Natural Step, call it the new taboos; things your heart won't
let you do.
Scientific consensus on the
earth's limits.
6]. Revive the Public
Trust Doctrine. Trust an informed public to anticipate
consequences and believe
in holding the earth in trust for future generations.
The Public Trust Doctrine saved
Mono Lake.
7]. Establish a Global
CPR Council to Conserve, Preserve, and Restore the earth.
We can't afford not to.
8]. Reform I.R.S.
and F.B.I. (to invest in protecting the earth as carefully
as they
profit from it trashing it short
term.)
9]. Raise Expectations. Individuals and institutions can do much
better --
remembering
Goethe:
10]. Organize an Ecological Council
of the Americas (to reform the Monroe
Doctrine.)
11]. Renew the Environmental
Liaison Center, move it to Holland and influence a
Nairobi office with
a web site.
12].Help justice help the environment,
send inequity out to pasture.
13]. Get railroads
back on the track, to rescue the atmosphere by avoiding new
freeways
and airports.
14]. Restore: The United Nations, with
the US paying its dues or lowering the US flag to
half mast in New York
and Geneva.
15]. Restore
Tibet (to resemble the World
Heritage Site, as suggested by the Dali
Lama .)
16]. Franchise Curitiba,
Brazil's model city, globally.
17]. Restore soul as suggested in the
23rd Psalm;
help religions address new
millennium needs.
18]. End the addiction to growth by
curing the ecomyopia -- and sad lack of foresight.
19]. End greedlock, Anne
Brower's word; which can abolish parking .
20]. Reduce
Vulnerability to terrorism: address it's cause-- our being
#1
at many other country's
expense.
21]. Stop denying that population and
immigration growth are problems, address
their cause.
22]. Let the Earth
Island Family grow to cover Action, Law, Voters, Heritage
(cultural and environmental),
and Outreach (including library and archives).
23]. Earth Island Circle honoring, crediting
and thanking the allies and alumni.
24]. Drain
Powell Reservoir: which wastes water, pollutes, is unsafe,
and generates
the world's most costly
electricity.
25]. Rethink and redesign or repent
26]. Imitate Nature's abhorrence of
Waste.
