What are Our Worldviews?
Hawaii is one of the most remote, ecologically and socio-culturally diverse places on the planet and can be considered a microcosm of the global macrocosm. Being such a microcosm, Hawaii is uniquely positioned to become an excellent proof-of-concept for global sustainability and enrichment. In order to create such a proof-of-concept, a wide array of knowledge, data and tools will need to be integrated. Fortunately, great technological and methodological frameworks currently exist that enable us to map, monitor, measure and improve ecological, socio-cultural and economic systems. Collaboration through info-sharing is one of the powerful mechanisms we can each engage in to facilitate community betterment. User-driven websites can help gather and organize info regarding the various levels of government, education, business, non-profits and the community at large. The real or perceived problems/challenges and potential solutions can be categorized according to quality of life indicators. The solutions could be sub-categorized by entity, location, resources, costs, etc. All of this information can be put into relational or associative databases and funneled through nice, intuitive user-interfaces. Environmental monitoring sensors can also be deployed as a mesh network to create a virtual simulation of the physical space while monitoring air, land and water quality. This info is transmitted live via satellite to a 4-d simulation of the planet and viewable down to very specific locales. Deep web search engines can scan the internet in real-time and use semantic filters to grab the info relevant to our quality of life indicators. That data comes from an IP address which can be translated into GIS coordinates and layered upon the 4-d earth. We can further funnel the data through an algorithm that equates natural resources to financial resources to human resources to derive a systems-based benchmark of sustainability rooted in thermodynamics. The real-time monitoring of data filtered and related through the algorithm creates a model for true cost pricing/full cost accounting and real world economics. Visual network maps and tree maps can make all of this information much more manageable for decision-makers to see the strengths and weaknesses within the systems and leverage the various tipping points to positively cascade the system toward healthier ends. The model suggest the accommodation of economic externalities, the creation of a value-neutral solution for achieving social equity and, by definition, maintaining or enriching the global ecosystem.
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