Welcome to
Dandelions Unlimited
Training Young Organizers
(And a few older ones too)
Here is a menu of straight-forward sustainability projects to organize in your town, in your school, in your place of worship.
Projects that are already going on just down the road from you!
Do you have five or so hours a week to organize a sustainability project in a school or place of worship in your town? For our children's future? For the polar bear?
The projects necessary to create a sustainable world already exist, and they are occuring in a town near you and all around the world. To create a sustainable culture worldwide we must duplicate these projects in every town and every neighborhood.
To create a beautiful flourishing world for our children is really not rocket science. Families who have children with asthma are working to ban dangerous pesticides at schools. They are also working to ban idling buses and trucks near schools. We should all be doing this. Families who love the forest are working to get schools to use 100% post-consumer recycled paper. If we all did this the worldwide paper market would change. Families who want to protect native habitats in their town are replanting them and cleaning up the waterways. We can all have fun doing this. Families that are concerned with the high cost of food and who want excellent locally grown food are developing community gardens. All neighborhoods need these.
What stands between us and a sustainable world culture is probably five or more hours per week, per person. Can you dedicate five+ hours to organizing a ban of pesticides at your neighborhood school? Five or more hours a week to organize a neighborhood to replant and clean up a stream? Or to work on the next project that needs to be accomplished to make your town truly sustainable, in the American Indian fashion of “Seven Generations” sustainable?
I know many of us are so busy that we actually don’t have five hours a week for this. Sometimes life and work and taking care of family is so overwhelming that we don’t have time to brush our teeth, much less anything else.
For those of us who can carve out some time on a regular basis to build the new sustainable society, starting in our own town, in our own schools, places of worship and community centers, PLACES WHERE WE HAVE THE MOST INFLUENCE, let’s do it. Let’s get it done. Let’s make our kids and our parents proud. Let’s yell to the critters that share our beleaguered planet that help is on the way. We’re not waiting any more. We’re just going to do it ourselves.
We Shall Overcome. This Land is Your Land. If I Had a Hammer . . . (and I do).
The world can have
a beautiful future.
All we have to do
is organize ourselves.
School by school.
Town by town.
Place of worship
by place of worship. |  | | Los Angeles Roots & Shoots |  | | Musician and Dandelions Unlimited Founder Dana Lyons (right) with Dr. Jane Goodall, founder of Roots & Shoots. |  | | Photo by Johnathan Hayward |  | | Photo by Katey Roemmele |  | by Bob Paltrow
http://www.bobpaltrow.com/ | |
