http://herleed.com Not just for buildings Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:55:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://herleed.com/about/#comment-2 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:06:28 +0000 #comment-2 Your comments remind me of reading “Punished by Rewards” by Alfie Kohn when he talks about the fact that rewards kill interest and the intrinsic desire to do something. Changing people’s mindset and attitudes must come from the realization and consciousness that change is needed and will bring a positive effect. In “Consious Evolution” Barbara Hubbard talks about the idea that we need to transcend our self-centered consciousness and see how we’re all connected to the “larger whole.” When we do this, we can take responsibility for our contributions to air, water pollution; carbon emissions; species extinction–global warming. But if we see ourselves as somehow “separate” from the whole, society, the planet–then we don’t tend to see or take responsibility for how we might be harming the planet. I think one approach is to approach resolving these complex issues avoiding either/or thinking and instead approaching a solution with raising consciousness about how powerfully individuals can contribute to “change” and how great an effect the individual has on the “whole,” but they must see that they are not “separate from” but part of the solution and the greater issue.

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