Section I: Content Overview
1. Executive Summary
A. Presentation Sum-up
i. Action Orientation
ii. Active Education
iii. Engaged Experience
iv. Unique Cultural Ideas
v. Foundation of Principles & Concepts
vi. Balance Our Affects on the World
vii. Explore Beyond Your Confines
B. Basic Conclusions
i. Change What Lead Astray
ii. Opportunity to Study Sustaining Life
iii. Foundational Principles
iv. Foundational Concepts
v. Only An Aspect
vi. Community Separate From Sustainability
vii. Organize Life For Yourself
2. Logistical Organization and Structure of Paper
A. General Overview
i. Access to Entire Thesis
ii. Paragraph Titles
iii. Outlines Set
iv. Accessibility to Detail
v. Glossary of Quick Reference
vi. Primary Web Vision
vii. Past Versions Available
B. Interactive Sustainable Paper
i. Core of Paper Writing
ii. Help Write This Paper
iii. Interact & Give Comments
iv. Collective Agreement is Crucial for Success
v. Hope For a Web Interface
vi. Everlasting Change
vii. Take Ownership of What You Read
viii. Enhance Future Experience
3. Introduction
A. Sustaining What? Sustaining Life!
i. Common Question
ii. The Troubling Question
iii. Giving New Context
iv. Union of Realms
v. Study Sustaining Life
B. Changing Ourselves
i. Nothing on Definition or Current Crisis
ii. Change Your Perception
iii. We Control Our Achievements
iv. Apply Sustainable Living to Change The World
v. Change Decision Making Styles
vi. Change Our Interactions
C. Understanding the Individual and the Collective
i. Aspect Duality
ii. Personal & Individual Understanding
iii. Multiple & Societal Understanding
iv. Equality & Individual Grounding
v. The Individual is the Foundation of Our Collective
Understanding
Section II: Case Studies in the
Progression of Sustainable Living
1. Organizations of a Collective Movement
A. The Beginnings of a Sustainability Movement at UC Santa Cruz
i. Good Things Come Slowly
ii. Unsuccessful Efforts
iii. Break in Continuity
iv. Jessian Choy to the Rescue
v. Multitude of Organizational Options
vi. Exponential Ripples
B. Collective Sustainability Movement Year 1 & 2
i. Focused First Year
ii. The First Summit and Festival
iii. Statewide Begins
iv. SEC Campaigns
v. Continued Exponential Growth
vi. Second Summit & Festival
C. Collective Sustainability Movement Year 3
i. First CSSC Advisory Council
ii. New CSSC Campaigns
iii. CSU’s Join
iv. UCSC Bumps It Up a Notch
v. Summit Rocks the House
vi. Work Starts at Chancellor and National Level
D. A Bumpy Ride
i. Magical Momentum
ii. Coordinating Coordination for a Plethora of Projects
iii. Coming Back to the Roots
iv. More Right Than Wrong
v. Stop People Cracking
vi. Ground For Strategy
vii. Ground Each Individual
2. Sustaining Personal Involvement in the Movement
A. Individual Case Study
i. Introduce Author
ii. Founded Involvement
iii. How to Stay Sane?
iv. Start Not Begin Sane
v. Ground Slowly With Personal Growth
B. Storing Energy
i. Before the Movement
ii. Start With YOGA
iii. Root Yourself in Family & Friends
iv. Actively Increase Bodily Energy
v. Less Activity Brings Problems
vi. Loss of Connection
vii. Eight Meetings is Too Many
viii. The YOGA Sustained Me
ix. No More Than Five a Day
x. Realign Balance
3. Sustainable Living in the Education System
A. Education Evolution
i. Turning Point For Education
ii. We Already Change Education
iii. Lets Engage Students
iv. Case Study ESLP
B. ESLP
i. Speakers & Continuity
ii. The Most Amazing Class
C. Feedback on the Lectures
i. Students Say Incredible
ii. Exciting & Inspirational
iii. First Real Class
iv. Connected Perspective
v. Can’t Take It, Teach It
D. Action Research Teams
i. Campus Contribution Differed
ii. Direct Viability to Community
iii. Group Work to Move Forward
iv. Applied Experience
E. The Methodology of the Class
i. Foundation of Teaching Evolution
ii. Important Aspects
iii. Must Be Student Run
iv. Balance Control & Relationship With Professors
v. Helps All Learning
F. Retreats
i.
Students Come From All Over
ii. Work & Learn From One Another
iii. First of Its Kind
4. Academia & the Movement’s Vision
A. Getting to The Cause of Our Problems
i. Well Educated People Cause Problems
ii. Change Our Educational Methodology
iii. Uniting Broadly a Influential Infrastructure
B. The Larger Vision
i. Go Beyond Campuses Into Cities
ii. High Level Political Shift Toward a Sustainable Future
iii. International Implementation
Section III: The Development of Conscious Systemic Change
1. Introduction to Conscious Shifting
A. Think Local, Global, and Universal, Act In Balance
i. Interdependence With Everything
ii. Existence
iii. We Are Our Surroundings
iv. Don’t Do For Your Own Kind
v. Love Intrinsic Value
vi. Balance Yourself
B. Open Systems and Interdependence
i. Search For Interconnections
ii. Increase Interaction Even With Structure
iii. Current Fragmentation
iv. Limit Fragmentation With Interrelationships
C. Introduction to Principles and Concepts of Sustainable Living
i. Basic Thought
ii. Foundation of This Paper
iii. Interrelating Vocabulary
iv. Larger Consciousness
v. Individual Evolution
vi. Redefine the World
2. Principles of Sustainable Living
A. Principle
i. Primal Source
ii. Conscious Decision Making
iii. Guiders
iv. Multi-Leveled
B. Balance
i. Everything Is Balanced
ii. Common Examples
iii. Balance’s Essence Exists Within
iv. Singular Balance Doesn’t Exist
v. Continual Fluctuation
vi. Don’t “Hold” Balance
vii. Release & Extend Through It
C. Spectrums
i. Understand Your Relationship to Opposites
ii. There Is Always More To Simplicity
iii. Natural Order of Ideas
iv. Infinity Exists Between Opposites
v. Attune to Center of Opposites
vi. Spectrum Spectrums
D. Intention
i. Focus on Actions & Surroundings
ii. Enact a Purposeful Plan
iii. Plan, Go Slow, and Take Risks
iv. Refine
v. Believe In Yourself
E. Hope
i. Invisible Thread
ii. Motivation
iii. Bond of Knowledge
iv. Godly Figments
v. Care to Evolve
F. Trust
i. Look Inside to Connect
ii. Satish’s Story
iii. Trust Yourself & Your Community
G. Time
i. Eternal Magic
ii. Natural Time
iii. Time Is Not Linear
iv. A Mandela of Consciousness Defines Us
v. Instantaneous Ripples
vi. The Present Moment
vii. Actions Now Effect Now
3. Concepts of Sustainable Living
A. Concept
i. Guiding Perception
ii. Tangible Steps
iii. Applicable Metaphors
iv. Principle Application Examples
v. Bring Systemic Change
B. Collaboration is the Gateway to Change
i. Collaborate With Decision Makers
ii. Collaborate No Matter What
iii. Step By Step & Side By Side
iv. Don’t Blame Decision Makers For Problems
v. I Love My Enemy
C. Learn Only to Guide
i. Don’t Learn For Yourself
ii. Guide Others
iii. Only You Can Learn
iv. Always Pass on Knowledge
v. We Have Linear Education
vi. Visualize Who Your Passing to
D. A Landfill is a Recycling & Composting
Center Waiting to be Organized
i. Imaginary Fiction
ii. Mind Games
iii. No More Landfills
iv. We’re Past Linear Thinking
v. Process Waste
vi. Divert From Landfills
vii. Organizing Fun
viii. Pre-Sort & Research Waste Processes
E. Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Health &
Safety
i. Just Physical Isn’t Enough
ii. Understand Your Mind
iii. Create Mental Safety
iv. Spiritual Complexity
v. Ground Yourself
vi. Find Spiritual Places
vii. Nurture Spiritual Energy
viii. Enhance Spiritual Safety
ix. Templeize
x. Your Body Is Your Temple
F. Release to Relax, Forgive to Be Happy
i. Unblock Stagnation
ii. Forgiving is Magic
iii. We Didn’t Do It
iv. Take Responsibility
v. Clean & Travel
vi. Sit Under a Tree
vii. Breath Deep
G. Grounding Yourself in the Garden, You Are What YOU Eat
i. Best Way To Ground
ii. Get Your Hands Dirty
iii. Food Comes From the Garden
iv. Cook
v. Diet Is Nutrition
vi. Accept all Diets
vii. Your Diet Is Fun
viii. Water Plants
H. Look Inward to Find Common Sense
i. Just Advising
ii. You Are Unique
iii. Listen to Your Intuition
iv. Common Connection of Source
v. Memorize the Feeling
vi. Allow Guidance
Section IV: Beyond Sustainable Living
1. Thriving Life
A.
Why Sustainable Living Isn't Enough
i. Evolve Community
ii. Community is Different
Than Sustainability
iii. Collective Complexity
iv. Sacrifice Is Anti Sustainability Yet Pro Life
B.
Beyond Sustainable to Thriving Life
i. What We have Won’t Do
ii. Enhance Life
iii. Living Buildings
iv. Endless Organizational Strategies
v. Each Different
vi. Reorganize Your Relationships
C. Balance of Everything Beyond Life Itself
i. Solutions Don’t Involve Problems
ii. Unsustainability
iii. Question the Status Quo
iv. Life & Death