View image | gettyimages.com Sustainability Like tastes and temperaments, people’s values and priorities varied. But that didn’t mean freedom of choice was an unlimited right; it didn’t mean exploitation was okay. Some people’s tastes and choices were taking up too…
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Hallmarks of the Emerging New Paradigm: Sustainability
Tagged with: bees, clean energy, consumption, Earth Day, environment, EPA, Gaia, green power, longreads, paradigm shift, renewable resources, Sustainability
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Hallmarks of the Emerging New Paradigm: Community
Community “The differences between groups sometimes cause conflicts—people can always find something to disagree about as long as they feel a need to create separation. We reject in others what we’re unable or unwilling to accept in ourselves, the things…
Tagged with: belonging, Earthlings, human origins, longreads, new paradigm
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Hallmarks of the Emerging New Paradigm: Accountability
Accountability He had influenced her as well. Five years earlier, she’d advised him to plead guilty to a lesser charge, but answers to questions about right and wrong no longer seemed starkly evident to her. Laws were not always just…
Tagged with: accountability, bodhisattva, ethics, forgiveness, immunization, Kohlberg's 7th stage, longreads, moral development, paradigm shift
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Paradigm Shift
Visionaries see problem areas and potential remedies long before others but their recommendations may be ignored until a crisis results and people are ready to embrace changes that may be long overdue. Accepting a new paradigm is akin to a “conversion experience.”
Tagged with: Crisis, Embracing Change, Life Changes, longreads, paradigm shift, Transformation
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What Is a New Paradigm Novel? (Part Two)
Part Two: What Is a Paradigm? Many people would consider his opinions extreme, Kimo knew, so he mostly kept them to himself. He could afford to view unsustainable lifestyles and practices with disdain, for he had never benefited from the…
Tagged with: a moment of time, Jilaine Tarisa, longreads, paradigm shift, scientific revolutions, Thomas S Kuhn, visionary
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What Is a New Paradigm Novel? (Part One)
Part One: What is a Novel? “When you understand the laws, you can see how they apply in different areas. Seemingly diverse theories and practices suddenly fit into a pattern that makes sense. A new paradigm.” Kimo, Chapter 73, A…
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Jilaine Tarisa 