Collective Knowledge

In addressing the challenges of systemic collapse, one important path to success is to ensure that information on which we can act is clear, current, and accessible, and communicate these findings to a broad and diverse public. Sustainable Ventures, now a project of Vital Systems, investigated how we can work together collectively and build on each other's knowledge from 2003 through 2008.

Sustainable Ventures laid out a path to develop rigorous and comprehensive pricing and accounting – true cost pricing and true cost accounting – systemic ways to include all the costs and impacts of our actions in our decision making in all the arenas of our lives by working collectively to integrate findings from nine market sectors. We began with the premise that we can address shared challenges by using language that is easy to understand and formats that can be readily grasped, recognizing that each of our actions impact all of life's systems. Framing questions from these perspectives, and engaging others on a broader basis, we can apply more informed practices to the ways that we vote, purchase, form businesses, and celebrate what we each uniquely value. Sustainable Ventures formed an ongoing dialogue among the following nine market sectors to consider what are sustainable practices in food and farming with interesting results.

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Vital Systems carries this conversation forward in a report Growing Climate Stability – Food and Farming Actions that reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Nine Market Sectors – a Feature of which, What About Meat? captures some facts that we all really need to know and presents constructive ways to act on them. If we were to change our behaviors and practices related to the production and consumption of meat, we could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions (CO₂eq) and lower our human-made global warming impacts.

The Time is NOW! We ALL need to participate!

• Join the conversation to address systemic solutions to the challenges we have created, by growing collective knowledge.
  
• Participate in developing, facilitating, and producing the necessary ways of thinking, practices, and tools we need to create a world based on sustainability principles.