Thursday, October 23

Living & Loving God's Creation

An organization I admire & support published a fascinating book - Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi
Designing the Future of Business through Nature, Genius and Compassion

From their intro:

This collection, developed from The Natural Step’s conference on Sustainability and Innovation in 2002, provides radical ideas for generating a new perspective on the dynamics of business systems. Ants symbolise the lessons to be learned from nature and the dependence of individual beings on broader, complex systems. Galileo embodies brilliance in perceiving and proving that the current paradigm is flawed. Gandhi exemplifies exceptional compassion in fighting for fundamental change.

While I commend the book to you, what strikes me is that mainstream businesses (HP, McDonalds, Home Depot) have embraced the sustainability of God's creation much more rapidly than the old mainline or the new mainstream churches. Why is it that being stewards for God's glorius creation is seen as far left or even pagan ?

A friend of mine had a great quote on this - paraphrasing - how is it that we want to spend eternity with someone who we diss so much right now ?

posted by lisa | 9:20 AM | |