The 7 F's* of Conscious Sustainable Living

On Labor Day, 9 individuals were meeting in Stelle, Illinois to review visions of our possible future and discuss who we are, why we are here and what we came here to be, do and have stewardship over. One of the exercises was deciding what grade from A to F we would give ourselves, our communities, country and the planet in terms of how well we and it is sustainable. Of course, the universal grade was an F. buy perfumes

Then we spent a few minutes brainstorming aspects of conscious sustainable living that begin with the letter F. The following 7 represent the shared vision of those of us "playing the sustainability word game":

Food Production and Distribution

Fuel Self-Sufficiency

Family/Home/Community

Financial Stewardship

Full Realization of Human Potential

Future Orientation - 7th Generation

Fully Enlightened Consciousness

Our final exercise was brainstorming some of the available resources for each of the 7 areas of Conscious Sustainable Living as listed below:

Food Production and Distribution: Perpetual Harvest Greenhouse System; Feed Milwaukee model; publications and workshops from Lily Hill Farm and the Center for Conscious Sustainable Living; From the Soil to the Stomach and other books by Penny Kelly; workshops by CSC (Center for Sustainable Community); etc. cheap winter olympics tickets

Fuel Self-Sufficiency: Wind and Solar Power: Community Supported Energy Cooperatives; Ethanol Production plants, books and workshops and DVD's by David Blume, etc.

Family/Home/Community: Fellowship for Intentional Community; Community Economic Development; Community Development Society, Center for Community Education, Community Services, Inc.; Family Motivation, Inc., Center for Sustainable Community, etc.

Financial Stewardship: Building Financial Success, I Inherited A Fortune by Paul J. Meyer, Money Can Heal by Sigfried Finser,; Soul of Money and Fundraising from the Heart by Lynne Twist; Coming Clean: Building a Wonderful World from the Inside Out by Catherine Austin Fitts and Christinia Englebart; Solari Circles by Catherine Austin Fitts; Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill; The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles; Spiritual Economics by Eric Butterworth; T. Harv Eker's Secrets of a Millionaire Mind; Chris Howard's training, books and classes by Edwene Gaines, Catherine Ponder, John Randolph Price, one or more "complementary currencies", etc.

Full Realization of Human Potential: Ultimate Destiny Success System; University for Successful Living; Evolving Human and other books by Penny Kelly; CENTER SPACE (Center for Spiritual Personal And Community Enlightenment), Solving the Global Sustainability Success Puzzle (Ultimate Destiny); etc.

Future Orientation - 7th Generation: Future Vision by Ty Caine; Power Vision by Dr. Emmet Miller; Future Diary by Mark Victor Hansen, Robes by Penny Kelly; The Ultimate Frontier; Fostering Personal & Planetary Sustainability (Ultimate Destiny), etc.

Fully Enlightened Consciousness: Center for Conscious Sustainable Living; Conscious Evolution, Awakening Our Social Potential and Evolve by Barbara Marx Hubbard; Consciousness In Action by Andrew Beath; Seven Lessons in Conscious Living by Roy Eugene Davis, Handbook to Higher Consciousness by Ken Keyes, Jr.; Transcending the Levels of Consciousness by David R. Hawkins, Solving Your Ultimate Destiny Success Puzzle by Charles Betterton, Howard Pepper, Kimberley Jace and Penny Kelly, etc.