We CAN Acheive A Sustainable Developement

Cities become more productive and efficient as they grow larger. It’s science. Cities play a crucial role in our evolution as a species. Statistics show that the bigger a city is the less pollution and crime there is within that city, and the more inventions and, ultimately, more opportunities for a healthier and more connected society. Despite the age old image that we have, that these cities are unnatural and accelerate crime, disease and waste: cities concentrate, accelerate and diversify social and economic activities. There are a several mathematical ‘laws’ that scientists have discovered that tell us that concentrating humans together increases economic activity, return on infrastructure investment and social vitality. It’s pretty amazing to find that the largest cities in America produce the lowest carbon dioxide emissions, per capita, and this is true with all cities around the world.

The technique used for quantifying the data is called super-linear scaling. It is a technically sound way of figuring that the economic advancements of a city increase faster than the direct relation to their population growth would predict. So, as a city grows, the rate at which its city produces patents and successful innovators grows more quickly than population growth.

This data also shows us that a cities use of resources follows a similar, but inverted, law. When the size of the city grows, the total number of gas stations, length of pipes, roads and electrical wires does not! This tells us that these quantities grow more slowly than we expect: A single city of 8 million typically needs less of the same infrastructure as two cities with 4 million people each. Scientists call this sub-linear scaling. The bigger city actually uses its infrastructure more efficiently than the two smaller cities. There’s no need to state the type of savings in material, energy and emissions that can occur. This principle seems to hold true no matter what level of advancement a city is in.

The odd finding is that cities like San Francisco and Boston are richer than their size would indicate, but Phoenix and Riverside, CA are slightly poorer. We also find that these deviations persist for decades. This tells us that a city’s over-performing or under-performing histories stay the same. This leads researchers to suggest that more than the development of material infrastructure hold the key to generating worthy cycles of innovation and the creation of wealth. Things like the development of a spirit of local entrepreneurship, the reputation for cutting edge originality, and a cultural excellence of competitiveness are difficult to design through the making of policy. These things rely on the dynamics of a city’s social fabric across many dimensions. This new research will lead to better ‘recipes’ for sustainable socioeconomic development.

The challenges for urban growth is whether or not human creativity can keep innovating fast enough to sustain ever growing urban populations while decreasing our per capita consumption of resources and our negative impacts on the Earth Mother. For now, it seems that we create new innovations because we have to sustain the ever growing population of the city we are creating. If this trend of innovation out of necessity can continue, cities will grow larger and larger and will lead to the predictable future of a much more creative and prosperous humanity.

Plugging a city into a social network can advance it’s sustainability through a willingness to cooperate, amongst many people. Free flowing ideas and the ability to coordinate mass action enable a network to be laid down in which everyone can connect and have instant access to information and knowledge. We continue, as a society to confront massive issues. From endemic poverty to the environmental changes of the world, these giant challenges are what drive our development… Always have. As long as there is cooperation as a society, it will continue to develop us. We have seen mankind come up with miracles when the population cooperates with one another. This is a gift, which no other species possesses. We can learn from one another, work together and solve problems by connecting our collective intelligence. The new electronic era is teaching us how to use this tool, but I think that we will even be able to do it one day without electronics, with only our consciousness we will connect to all other consciousness and coordinate on a giant universal scale.

The fact is that cities have been solving our species challenges for millennia, and will allow population to grow. There are not ‘too many’ people on the Earth Mother, despite popular belief. There are plenty of resources for everyone, and then some. We just have to become better at distributing & sustaining them and more efficient at consuming these resources.

Our focus should be on producing the mindset of the entrepreneur and the teacher. A lot of people believe that it is a special gift or an inherited frame of mind that allows one to become an entrepreneur or a teacher. This isn’t true; everyone should learn how to think like this. The entrepreneur is the new shaman; he understands that he can make his world anyway that he needs to, so that he can solve the obstacles that lie in the way of success. No obstacle will stop him; he understands the forces of the universe and energy. Energy and matter evolve and change, and so everything must evolve and change. Everything is energy, some things weak, which hold a negative influence on other energy. Some things have powerful energy and positively influencing other energy.

The entrepreneur is simply aware of the world around him to a greater degree than most people are taught. He understands that money isn't something you acquire. Money is and energy that flows, and the entrepreneur only tunes into this flowing energy vibration. It is not money we yearn for, it is the comfort and security that money creates. Gold is old, the new rich are the ones who abandoned the deferred-life plan and create luxurious lifestyles in the present using the currency of the new rich........ time and mobility. This is an art and science that is referred to as Lifestyle Design. Only the elite are taught this way... Key word: taught……... we can all learn.

A good teacher does not ‘teach’ ideas… The teacher only raises the student’s interest in those ideas so that he is motivated to learn. You cannot force information or knowledge into someone brain, just like you cannot force water into a thirsty camels gullet. You can raise a student’s awareness of why he should want to learn that information, that knowledge. Teachers should not feel that they have authority or a duty to teach. They should exhibit an open mind, and their own willingness to learn, this attitude will inspire people to learn and want to obtain knowledge. I had a lot of these types of teachers…for the most part. Other teachers only were concerned with teaching me how right they were, and how much authority they possessed over me. Children, in fact, have the ability to know more than adults. Probably can teach us more than we can teach them anyway, why? Because their minds are open, and they haven’t been taught to close their third eye of awareness by their society. Our society instills dogma into our beliefs and our ability to see things for how they are.

Our society will grow into a beautiful gem in the universe, but we have to stop fighting it. Everything is vibrating. We can’t search, or demand, or seek. We must learn to relax, if we would relax, we would find that it is already there… we would begin to vibrate with it.