Our Mission is to sustain people and wild places.
Our Vision
We envision a world where people strive to empower, not seize power;
all life on Earth has the right to flourish;
progress is based on genuine well-being—not increasing consumption;
the great gap between rich and poor is narrowed, not widened;
access to education, health care, and meaningful work is available to every person;
every child is wanted, and families are created by choice—not chance or coercion;
human numbers exist in balance with other species, and with the environment and natural resources that sustain us all.
Our Purpose
The future is no longer in the future, but here and now.
Second by second it is upon us, and every moment in our lives is a fresh beginning. It is the people who are living through the upheaval who will decide how society moves forward:
Into another few years of Economic Growth Over All Else until the next wave of pandemic hits and we all run indoors again?
Or a recognition that our slowing down, our under-consuming, our focus on local life, may be a very good thing.
Most of us are enjoying the clean air and quiet that the “stay at home” orders have brought us. We are enjoying the songs of birds and the re-emergence of wild animals. But we do not enjoy the loneliness, the limitations, and the loss of life and work.
How can we move from being an Economic Person to a Whole Person? That will take imagination, hard thinking, and courage to test the unknown. If we want some hard thinking done, we must think for ourselves, or others will do the thinking—and decision-making—for us.
The time has come to set our feet upon the road to sustainability. The task is urgent; we must not push it into the future; we must not leave it to others: we must do it ourselves, and we must begin here and now.
Blue Planet United resolves to bring the theory of sustainability down from the clouds of vision into the community of local and personal action. We will provide action ideas that span all facets of human endeavor.