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================================================================================================================================================================================== ================================================================================================================================================================================== This web page - - - will offer Surveys for public input - - - ABOUT MAJOR THREATS TO THE-LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY-OF-CIVILIZATION - - - hoping that most viewers are interested in helping US-ALL to participate in IDENTIFYING and LIFTING-UP for open-and-honest-dialogues: questions, affirmations, facts, truths, ideals, values, principles, grounds-for-hope, virtues, perspectives, myths and convictions - - - that Will-Play-Major-Roles in EITHER AUGMENTING and/or UNDERMINING - - - the LONG-TERM-SUSTAINABILITY of EARTH'S GLOBAL Civility-Patterns - - - and of EARTH'S GLOBAL-CIVILIZATION. SUVEYS will be offered in the overall spirit described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds. SURVEYS-WILL-NOT-FOCUS EXCLUSIVELY-UPON any-isolated ideology or group's - - - perspectives, beliefs or activities. Surveys WILL-FOCUS INCLUSIVELY-UPON questions, affirmations, facts, truths, ideals, values, principles, grounds-for-hope, virtues, and perspectives - - - that ARE-TOO-RARELY the Gracious-Focus of Open-and-Honest Public-Dialogues. { THE SURVEY WAS UPDATED ON 2012/04/09- - - AND IS NOW OPEN FOR YOUR INPUT. IT WILL REMAIN OPEN FOR MANY DAYS; UNTIL THERE IS A GOOD REASON TO CLOSE IT.} { YOU ARE ALL ENCOURAGED TO TELL FRIENDS TO CONTRIBUTE THEIR DIVERSE PESPECTIVES, OPINIONS, CONVICTIONS, ETC. - - TO STIMULATE OPEN-AND-HONEST DIALOGUES!} =====> CLICK ON THIS LINE TO CONTRIBUTE YOUR-OWN-PERCEPTIONS TO A CURRENTLY OPEN SURVEY <===== Some people may find portions of the survey to be of little interest/concern to them. Feel free to fill out only the portions that are of authentic interest/concern to you. There are no financial costs or benefits associated with filling out this survey document. Your only benefits are the intangible benefits of knowing you have helped to lift up important but neglected topics, for open and honest discussion. ================================================================================================================================================================================== ================================================================================================================================================================================== Click on this line to explore an evolving dictionary of about 1,500 words that appear often in the over 10,000 essays available on this web site = Use this dictionary to find essays of interest to you. Future features will enable users to augment their own search-word-lists on the basis of how frequently words = = have appeared in the essays found here at this web-site www.essayz.com. The focus here is upon facilitating open-and-honest discussions-with-friends about - - - - How can we each = = discern whom we can most trust and admire in-the-long-term in GOD's PLANET-EARTH'S changing environment with finite supplies of OIL, NATURAL GAS and COAL that are being EXHAUSTED. = ======================================================================================================================================================================================= ==> ==> ==> The following COLORED and UNDERLINED lines are clickable links. <== <== <== Summarizing contents of inter-related web-pages.
sustain.htm is THIS-WEB-PAGE IS-THE-OVER-ALL-HOME-BASE base in www.essayz.com for recently-created-web-pages about Sustainability-Topics for EARTH dialogue.htm is a web page being developed during MARCH 2012 to help facilitate open and honest dialogue about CREATING a SUSTAINABLE-GLOBAL-CIVILIZATION SEE ALSO THE FIRST CLICKABLE LINK LINE JUST BELOW =======================================================================================================================================================================================
sustainc.htm focuses upon Generating Crew-Consensus about Sustainability in Astronomically-Tiny Space-Ship EARTH sustaind.htm focuses upon many ways of DESCRIBING what Sustainability means in Space-Ship-Earth. sustainf.htm focuses upon FACTORS affecting how long Space-Ship-Earth can be Sustainable sustaing.htm focuses upon How to do searches for Long-Term Local-Authentic-Sustaining-Providers sustainm.htm focuses upon a FEW of the most relevant SUSTAINABILITY links. sustfind.htm focuses upon searching for web-sites on the world-wide-web relatetd to Sustainability. sustlaws.htm focuses upon Natural-Laws describing processes related to Sustainability in EARTH. MANY-LINKS TO RESOURCES REGARDING EACH-SUSTAINABLE-CIVILIZATION CAN BE FOUND BELOW ========================================================================================================================= ===> In Fort Collins, Colorado <=== ==> Each of the following COLORED lines is a clickable link. <== Home Page of the Fort Collins, Colorado - - - Official-Goverment Web-Site Fort Collins, CO about its Sustainability Program Fort Collins, CO about Climate-Wise-Efforts to help Businesses-and-the- Environment Fort Collins, CO the "Fortzed" Efforts = a Large-Zero-Energy-District Fort Collins Home-Energy: Audits, Rebates, Conservation and Home-Efficiency-Programs Fort Collins' Year 2010 Sustainability Plus Environmental Program Series for Home-Owners Sustainable-Schools-International founded from Fort Collins! ================================================================================================================== ===> In Larimer County, Colorado <=== ==> Each of the following COLORED lines is a clickable link. <== Larimer-County in Colorado IS dealing with solid waste management Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association Focusing upon Conservation and Renewable-Energy ================================================================================================================== ===> In Colorado-State-University in Fort Collins, COLORADO <=== ==> Each of the following COLORED lines is a clickable link. <== Colorado State University in Fort Collins on GREEN-BUSINESS-EDUCATION Colorado State University in Fort Collins - - - GREEN-NEWS Enterprising Global Solutions College of Business in Fort Collins, CO (970) 491-6937 Village-Earth - Helping People Fulfill their own Dreams - - - From Fort Collins USA-Peace-Corps for which the initial research was done from Fort Collins ================================================================================================================== ===> In COLORADO and the Wider-World <=== Note: Most Global-Crises are Interconnected in Complex Ways. Over-Simplifications are Dangerous! ==> Each of the following COLORED lines is a clickable link. <== Vestas in Windsor and Brighton, Colorado and around the World Colorado River District - - Protecting Western Colorado Water Since 1937 "Sustainability" in the Perspective of the LWV of California Nature Magazine on Global Water Crisis Environment Colorado Home Page Environment-Colorado Energy-Action-Group High Plains Wind and Solar in Iowa How Find Authentic Long-Term-Sustainable Renewable-Energy-Providers? Iowa Students bring back to Iowa reports from Copenhagen Climate Conference Information on Sustainable Agriculture from University of California at Davis Information on Sustainable-Communities-Network and Peace-Making with University of California at Davis The PEW Charitable Trusts - - - focus on Facilitating/Supporting AUTHENTIC SUSTAINABILITY Web site of the Thompson School District in the Fort Collins, CO area; Empowering to Learn, Achieve and Excel. FACTORS that are NOW affecting how long it will be POSSIBLE-TO-SUSTAIN the Crew of "Space-Ship-Earth: earth.com focusing upon diverse Global-Sustainability-Topics 2010 Report on rapid melting of ice around the South-Pole due to Global-Warming 2010 Report on rapid melting of ice on the Greenland Ice Sheet; lubricating slipping of ice sheet into the Atlantic Ocean Studies of efforts to Mitigate Non-Sustainable-BULLYING in school setting. ============================================================================================================================================= ==> The following colored-lines are clickable links. <== Reaching Crew-Consensuses-about-Sustainability This Web-Page was initiated to bring together many references to "SUSTAINABILITY" in hand- outs that were presented at a meeting sponsored by League of Women Voters of Larimer-County
Colorado meeting in the Foothills Unitarian Church in Fort Collins, Colorado - - - on the
morning of February 8, 2010. Some of the following references are additions that were found while exploring the references recommended in the LWV presentation. Webster's Dictionary on "sustain" Following are some ways that some members of the League of Women Voters have DESCRIBED "Sustainability". "Sustainability" in the perspective of the LWV of California. "Sustainability" in the perspective of the LWV of New Mexico "Sustainability" in the perspective of the LWV of Gunnison, CO Emotional-Availability within Sustainable Healthy-Human-Rrelationships ================================================================================================================================================== ===> The following web pages pre-existed at www.essayz.com and were not mentioned at the above meeting. <=== ================================================================================================================================================== ===> Putting the Sustainability of God's Astronomically-Tiny-Isolated-Space-Ship-Earth in the Cosmic-Perspective <=== ==> Each of the following COLORED lines is a clickable link. <== Most MEGA-CITIES are on Ocean-Coasts with Rising-Ocean-Waters Threatening-THEM-LONG-TERM A Scale-Model of the COSMOS, including God's-Astronomically-Tiny-Isolated-Space-Ship-Earth - - - Is it Sustainable? How so? ================================================================================================================================================ ==> The following line is a clickable link. <== ===> Cosmic-Sustainability-Controlling-Laws that cannot be Repealed-or-Amended <=== ================================================================================================================================================ ==> The following COLORED lines are clickable links. <== Information about Mr. M. King Hubbert and his Peak-Oil-Prediction A simplified educational-graphical presention of the Peak-Oil-Curve News of how the above poster was created by Grandson of Dr. Menninger BP Statistical Survey Energy BulletinEnergy Information Agancy Global Public Media International Energy Agency Post Carbon Insitutue <=== Get the Big-Poster here! ================================================================================================================================================ ===> Some essays touching on SUSTAINABILITY topics/issues <=== The highlighted-underlined texts below at the left are links to many TEXTS of ESSAYS on the web-site www.essayz.com which contain words for which the first few letters are the same as those starting the link "names". Each web page linked to below will have numerous links to ESSAY TEXTS which are named via the code names of the form "@yymmdd#.htm" where "@" = "a" means written in the 1900s and "@" = "b" means essays written in the 2000s. Then "yy" means year, "mm" means month, "dd" means day-of-month and "#" means sequence number of essays written on that date. The number following the code name of the form "@yymmdd#.htm" tells how often designated form of words appear in the given essay text. ===> Considering SOME Environmental Sustainability Issues <=== ==> Each of the following COLORED lines is a clickable link. <== One Essay-Entitled: Many human behavior patterns are not SUSTAINABLE Each of the following Clickable-Links leads to many essays containing the 1st Full-Word in the link-name. Sustainable Exponential-Growth Environment Mine Pollution Entropy = garbage Energy Global Oil Coal Nature Environment ===> Considering Global Climate, Ocean and Storm Issues <=== ==> Each of the following COLORED lines is a clickable link. <== Ocean Rising Warm Storm ========================================================================================== ==> Each of the following COLORED lines is a clickable link. <== Access to SOME-ESSAY-TEXT by Word-Starts, presented in Alphabetic-Order Access to SOME-ESSAY-TEXT by Word-Starts, presented in Frequency-of-Use-Order Access to ALL-ESSAY-TEXTS by Months/Days within which they were written ========================================================================================== ===> Considering other than TEXTS of ESSAYS <=== ==> Each of the following COLORED lines is a clickable link. <== Climate Climate-Web-Sites Weather Action-Web-Sites PeakOil Tipping ========================================================================================== ===> Considering GLOGAL-ISSUES and BEYOND <=== ==> Each of the following COLORED lines is a clickable link. <== Most MEGA-Cities are on Ocean-Costs with Rising-Oceans due to Global-Warming Global Issues That Affect Everyone - - - A summary-of-them-at-a-previous-date Global Issues That Affect Everyone - - - Direct-to-web-site-as-UPDATED Viewing God's Astronomically-Tiny and Isolated Space-Ship-Earth from a Cosmic-Perspective Deadly Hazards of Inter-Stellar-Space-Travel ==========================================================================================