Month: April 2023

Regeneration is the Story

Damon Gameau is making a clear and beautiful picture of tomorrow. His story tells how to Practice Paneugenesis. As noted, in Matters Journal, Damon Gameau is Regenerating the World with Fact-Based Dreaming. In other words, his work focuses on how to create an Idealized Outcome for society and how we can generate comprehensive improvements by creating regenerative, net-positive, pervasive, reciprocal, selfish, selfless, and synergistic interactions so everyone benefits in his talks and movies.

I encourage you to watch his powerful TED Presentation, The Story that shapes your relationship with Nature. In this TED Talk he shares the story we need to follow so we can practice paneugenesis to generate comprehensive benefits.

Previously, as noted in Creating a Better Tomorrow post, I highlighted his excellent movie, 2040. I purchased it for $10 on YouTube and have watched it several times. He tells a great story about a future we could have.

After you watch 2040, please share your thoughts.

Damon Gameau has undoubtedly become one of the most beloved environmentalists in Australia. His infectious and empowering optimism and visionary creations of ‘fact-based dreaming’ have opened the world to a new era of solutions storytelling.

https://mattersjournal.com/stories/damon-gameau-regenerating-the-world-with-fact-based-dreaming

Be Well’r,
Craig Becker

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Number 2 for Good

We all know about and produce #2, yes the smelly kind. Now entrepreneurs are using it to practice paneugenesis by generating comprehensive improvements. As noted by Apple News:

This tech recycles toilet water in Silicon Valley high-rises
Within a few weeks, when someone flushes a toilet in one of San Francisco’s new high-rises, the water won’t drain into the local sewer system. Instead, it will flow into a recently installed machine in the basement, designed to treat the water on-site. After the machine is turned on next month, recycled water will travel back up special pipes so it can be used for the next flush. The solid waste—that is, poop—is treated separately and becomes a product to add to garden soil.

Read in Fast Company: https://apple.news/Ar76A2sp-QLuzfwFakNvm8A

Aaron Tartakovsky, CEO of Epic CleanTec, is taking what most of us see as waste and not only reusing it again, they are using the nutrients to grow healthy soil that can then grow healthier plants. Healthier plants mean we can be healthier. Without question, these solutions are generating comprehensive improvements by creating net-positive, pervasive, reciprocal, selfish, selfless, synergistic interactions with water to benefit everyone and everything.

Are you using EPIC Clean Tec where you live? If you are, please share your experience. We look forward to hearing from you.

BeWell’r,

Craig Becker

Be selfish, selfless, & synergistic so everyone and everything benefits!

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All Good Night Time Snack

Are you like me? Do you like to have a snack at night? I now have a better option than my previous cereal or plant-based ice cream choices. Chia Pudding is my new fantastic night-time snack! It tastes great, is plant-strong, is high in fiber, and helps me feel good.

There are many easy ways to prepare Chia Pudding. The easiest is to mix chia seeds with plant milk. See the video below for more specific instructions.

As noted, putting it in the refrigerator overnight is best. Many optional recipes are available on the Internet, TikTok, and Pinterest to help you discover what you like best. We use the recipe below to make a larger portion. This way we have snacks for a few days.

Chia Pudding is my new great-tasting net-positive, pervasive, reciprocal, selfish, selfless, synergistic interaction I use to benefit everyone and everything. In other words, eating Chia Pudding as a snack is one of the new ways I Practice Paneugenesis to improve my life while also generating comprehensive improvements. Please share in the comments your favorite recipe for Chia Pudding.

BeWell’r,

Craig Becker

Be selfish, selfless, & synergistic so everyone and everything benefits!

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Square Roots are a Critical Mass

Most of us promote ideas and attempt to transform people toward better methods. While it seems we must get all to agree or help those least interested in change, a more straightforward approach is recommended. We should help those interested, not those predisposed to be obstinate. This distinction is essential and is what I teach my students when encouraging healthy behaviors. It is important to work with those interested because:

  1. Working with those who are not interested is exhausting.
  2. Only a few need to change to bring about widespread change.

Critical Mass

Critical mass is defined as the minimum amount of fissile material needed to maintain a nuclear chain reaction. However, as discussed by Everett Rogers in Diffusion of Innovations, a critical mass is the minimum size or amount of something required to start or maintain a movement. The size of a critical mass to start movement has been shown to be quite small.

The best explanation for this concept was captured by Dr. W. Edwards Deming. He is cited to have indicated a critical mass is the square root of an organization. To learn more, I recommend the Deming Institute podcast, In Their Own Words, episode “What is the Critical Mass for Transformation?”

That means if the organization has 100 people, only 10 people need to be followers. If the group is 3000, only 55, and if it is 30,000, only 173 people need to be converted to start a movement. Understanding this, enables us to realize change can happen. This also highlights why Myron Tribus advised we should:

“Preach to the masses, work with volunteers.”

Myron Tribus

What does this mean?

This means change can happen, and we don’t have to change everyone, at least at first. A small critical mass will bring about widespread change. Although we still should promote to all, we should focus on the most receptive to generate comprehensive improvements, not those that require vast resources because they are uninterested. Getting a small critical mass started can start a movement, and improvements will evolve from interested people that create net-positive, pervasive, reciprocal, selfish, selfless, synergistic interactions so everyone and everything benefits.

Derek Sivers demonstrates all these important lessons about gathering a critical mass to create widespread change in his 3-minute TED presentation, How to Start a Movement. Siver’s excellent talk is also posted at Lets Start (Continue) this Positive Health Movement.

Please share how you start a movement by working with a small group of interested people. As Margaret Meade said long ago,

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

BeWell’r,

Craig Becker

Be selfish, selfless, & synergistic so everyone and everything benefits!

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More Diversity Benefits

Science, Quickly

In a surprising way, the April 3, 2023 Science Quickly podcast from Scientific American, Open Offices Aren’t Working, so How Do We Design an Office That Does? highlights the benefits of variety. These benefits were also explained in George Musser’s article, Fixing the Hated Open-Design Office, in , .

The insight is hinted at in his subtitle, Open-office designs create productivity and health problems. New insights from Deaf and autistic communities could fix them. As was discussed on the podcast, “…(we) design better for the center when you learn from the margins.” He suggests we flip the script because:

 Normally, accommodations are thought to be well, we’re gonna kind of tweak the office so that this particular person or this particular class of people does better, but we’re giving something up. And I think we need to invert that entire narrative, that designing for variety actually improves the office for everybody.

George Musser on 4/3/2023 Science Quickly Podcast

Understanding this design principle means that designing at the margins provides a method to benefit everyone and everything. These beneficial concepts were also explained in Architecture Creating All Good and Its the Environment Stu*?#!

This means these designs at the margins are a way to Practice Paneugenesis because it generates comprehensive improvements. These designs create net-positive, pervasive, reciprocal, selfish, selfless, synergistic benefits so everyone and everything benefits.

To better understand the possibility of all inclusive design, I recommend you listen to Science Quickly podcast from Scientific American, Open Offices Aren’t Working, so How Do We Design an Office That Does? I also recommend a reading of Greg Musser’s article, Fixing the Hated Open-Design Office, in , . Please share how you can use these ideas to improve your environment.

BeWell’r,

Craig Becker

Be selfish, selfless, & synergistic so everyone and everything benefits!

#SelfishSelflessSynergy

Please share your thoughts and questions below.
Contact me: BeWellr@gmail.com