Using Conscience with Purpose

Nature is complex and methodical in its ways. Billions of years of trial and error, learning, growing, perfecting. Each and every thing within its realm serves a purpose, including that which we may not yet understand. Plants, minerals, animals, and every molecule in between, doing what they're meant to without question, without ceasing. Their processes are primal, intrinsic and significantly relevant; they've become rhythmic with the universe like the tide and the wind. Then there's us, modern-day humans. Our current process looks something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM&feature=youtu.be

Stuck in a man-made rut, we are capable of infinite possibilities using the influential teachings of nature, yet we are struggling to learn from its ancient wisdom. Humans possess the ability to conscientiously comprehend the extraordinary miracle of this world, and we are the only ones who can save or destroy it. So what's our purpose?

A baby salamander photographed among the redwoods of Northern California.

Are we to be overly consumed in material securities and superficial luxuries to the point that we're basically making a conscientious decision to remain unaware of what our lifestyle costs others and the planet? Are we too comfortable in our current ways of life to care about making changes that will benefit ourselves, others, and Earth in the future, before it's too late? For our children's sake, and their children's sake, let's hope not. It is possible to transform our habits, but we have to put our mind to it.

Or are humans meant to do something much more intentional, intelligent and positively life-changing with our unique abilities? All of us can conscientiously make choices and take chances that affect real, positive change in today's world. We are the only ones with this purpose, the only ones with the power. What's stopping us? We must quit acting on impulses of selfish convenience so we can take control of our decisions and actions. The more we spread the ECO-MAD message and the more we EXERT CONSCIENTIOUS OPTIONS, the more it will all add up to MAKE A (HUGE) DIFFERENCE!

**Put It Into Practice**

Many of us are privileged in that we have access to education, information and resources that many others don't have. Because of this advantage, we are provided with more opportunity to seek out facts, make our own connections and inferences, form our own opinions on what we know to be true, and base our decisions on them. We also have a responsibility, to lead by example and spread the knowledge to those who unfortunately have no way of knowing better (lack of education, information, resources, etc.). A movement; making as many conscientious, sustainable choices and changes in our everyday lifestyles as we can, no matter how big or small, and urging others to do the same. Learning, as a global society, to take each action with the utmost regard for its impacts and consequences on others and on nature's ability to function, instead of working against and destroying the natural process that's been in the making for billions of years. Thoughts, ideas, actions, communications and shared wisdom that add up to a purpose much bigger than all of us.

Some information on nature as inspiration for creative innovation: https://biomimicry.org