Change your thinking.
Change your world.
Water Docs is proud to partner with Common Earth - an organization combatting climate change with a unique and comprehensive learning program. The program equips those concerned about the climate crisis with a profound and strategic understanding of how to create successful environmental interventions.
The key to effecting real and sustainable change is to understand the interconnectedness of seemingly disparate issues.
Mission Possible
The earth's temperature is rising. Humans are rapidly destroying the environment that sustains them in countless ways. The obscene inequality in distribution of wealth and innumerable other social inequities are growing. Structural racism seems to be ineradicable.
People care about these issues but struggle to know what to do. For Common Earth, there are no obvious answers or easy solutions. Instead, we provide a holistic understanding of the various forces involved and help participants shift their thinking from hopelessness to possibility. We are building a community of people with this new perspective. Together this community can overcome the barriers and share in the emerging caring society that puts carbon in its place.
Principles
Common Earth looks for basic principles. They govern the entire universe. Gravity, electricity, and ecosystems are all governed by basic principles. There are even principles of how we experience life. When one understands a fundamental principle, effective action becomes possible. When you encounter a new principle, you see the bigger picture and new possibilities present themselves. It is easy to see this strategy in action. When the Wright Brothers understood Bernoulli's Principle, the possibility of fixed-wing flight emerged.
So teaching basic principles is what Common Earth is all about. In-depth understandings of principles shift thinking and promote motivation to take effective action. A community of people armed with this deeper understanding of how the world works will be unstoppable. Changing our thinking changes the world we create.
Common Earth Program
Common Earth offers a multi-dimensional program to address questions surrounding how we might move to a caring society that puts carbon in its place. Common Earth's comprehensive program deepens participants' understanding of climate and socio-economic issues from a broad perspective. Here we see the interconnection and dependencies of seemingly disparate issues. By examining the role of thought in our human experience, one discovers how to think more creatively and with greater clarity to approach our concerns, including the climate crisis.