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Īll the articles in this series fit together. My website is Here is a link to a recent youtube video of my place. During the course of this series, I will share the best I have on behalf of paradigm shift, with a good deal coming from suburbia.

I have had a keen interest in social, economic, environmental and personal transformation for decades. The benefits of my property transformation are many in the here and now.

The place is a permaculture landmark in the PNW, and thousands of people have visited over the years to see what suburbia can look like. I have been transforming my quarter acre suburban property for 23 years to reduce my eco footprint and produce more basic needs closer to home. Intersecting projects can support each other. The more people taking action on behalf of paradigm shift the better. Paradigm shift benefits are accessible to people and planet as soon as they consciously prioritize their time and money and take purposeful initiative. Paradigm shift is not some future utopia. The consumer culture is one of history’s most remarkable and effective examples of mass social engineering. It is a well-established and widespread set of beliefs and behaviors that elevates vanity and excess consumption of energy and resources as primary goals and meaning of life. These examples can be adapted widely.Īs used in this series, a “paradigm” refers to a well-established set of beliefs and behaviors shared by large numbers of people. The series will describe many inspiring examples of paradigm shift from coast to coast by individuals and groups that ALREADY exist and provide a preview of what paradigm shift can look like. The focus in these articles is citizen action. Paradigm shift can manifest in scale from personal to community to nation wide. Social and cultural well being is equally important for paradigm shift as ecological well being. The goal of this paradigm shift is to move towards a condition where human activity fits within the boundaries of the natural world, bringing out the best in positive human potential is a primary goal of society and that society is served by an honest and accountable economic system.

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These articles will describe why paradigm shift is called for, how to help make it happen, how to pay for it and how this shift can mitigate a broad range of familiar and deepening social, economic, environmental and even spiritual problems. The Primer’s contention is that growth dependent capitalism and the political system that serves it are simply not capable of sustainability. Welcome to “A Primer For Paradigm Shift.” This is a series of articles with the goal of encouraging citizen initiative to replace capitalism, as we know it and its consumer culture, with a sensible, uplifted and sustainable economy and society.