2. A concept for REAL sustainability must, in my opinion, include at its foundations a holistic view of the world around us.

3. A plan for sustainability requires a careful deliberation of the social, economic, environmental, and health care plans which me must develop and carry out.

4. We must be mindful that our decisions about how we choose to live each day as this will impact our future health and welfare, as well as the health and welfare of our children, grandchildren and all future generations.

6. Our society now has the technology and the capacity to completely change the world around us both for better or for worse.

7. We cannot live in the hope that science and technology will create a “magical” cure for all of the social, economic, environmental, and health care woes of the world.

8. Sustainability requires the calm resolve of people of good conscience to improve their lives and those of their children, grandchildren and all future generations through careful action today in terms of social, economic, environmental, and health care reforms.

9. We must seek to consume less while maintaining a happy and healthy lifestyle. These are not contradictory concepts.

10. We must of course use our natural resources wisely and recycle where possible.

11. We must also make hard decisions to boycott goods which are not fairly traded to allow our economic “voice” to speak to industry.

10. We must develop a more harmonious social infrastructure which protects and weak and rewards the diligent. When you purchase goods or services your economic “vote” shapes our society as much as you “vote” at the ballot box.

11. We must also carefully safeguard our legacy through our children by carefully limiting the chemicals to which we exposure ourselves and our children because the occurrence of diseases such as cancer is outpacing our advances in cancer treatment. We must improve all aspects of our environment including reducing the chemicals in our daily living that we choose to use. Read the labels on your soaps, shampoos, and conditioner, cosmetics, foods and beverages and protect the health and well being of you and your family by avoiding harmful ingredients.

12. I had many outstanding mentors including the noted scientist, cybernetician. philosopher, artist and spiritualist Stafford Beer, and the educator, scientist, electrostatics expert and public servant Prof AD Moore, the mechanical, electronics and nuclear expert and spiritualist Prof Stan Phillips.

13. I am fortunate to have worked in research and development for over 3 decades in many diverse areas including electrical, mechanical, thermal and chemical engineering, materials science, electrostatics, and various aspects of product development. I have worked on such diverse projects a prototype solar powered car in the mid 1970s, research into acid rain effects and the design of electrostatic precipitators and to address the issues in the late 1970s, to stirling engines, ozone water treatment, chemical conversion to use plasmas to restructure pollutants into useful chemicals, and many other projects.

14. Thus, my blogs will try to provide practical advice on what you can do to create a sustainable future for you, your family, and all of our families. I am taking a very holistic and cybernetic view of the world around us and trying to provide articles on this blog about all aspects of sustainability.

Wayne Conrad