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GOODERGOODS


CHOOSING TO MAKE OR PURCHASE PRODUCTS WHO'S IMPACT IS GREATER THAN IT'S
FUNCTION.

 * Be Gooder (Home)


GOODER DEFINED

Gooder:/goŏd er|noun - purposeful decision-making practice to do what one knows
to be right; verb - the iterative process of making something better than what
exists  


GOODER GREETINGS

Pep Talk from the edge.

 

If I told you that - in the future, life would be gooder – would you leap from
what is to what if?  In my experience as a seasoned trend watcher, the response
is almost always resistant.  And yet even though many know collectively we have
to make the future ‘gooder’, we don’t.  Why not?   But more to the point, what
will motivate us to create a better life?  For me, it starts with this  - a Pep
Talk from the edge.

And with this simple published statement, I’ve leapt onto the other side - still
on the edge but across the divide towards the future I want to become. You’ve
probably already ascertained that I’m an optimist, and it’s true I believe you
can always seek out the bright side.  But that doesn’t make me a naive idealist
that thinks that passionate words alone can change the world.  I know that I
cannot solely change the world, and this space allows me to make a persuasive
argument for actionable change for what we know is no longer acceptable. Maybe
the pep talk will be just for me, but ideally I hope it will encourage others to
take affirmative steps to making a better world for future generations.

Change is not easy, and frankly often it’s tough work. As a change agent for
nearly two decades, I know how difficult it can be to motivate for change even
when the benefits are evident.  Yet it is because the resistance to change is so
challenging that I’m renewing a commitment to making positive change possible
via a social platform. I intend to share my experience and disseminate
information gathered from my quest.  Although some postings will be personal
tales, more importantly I want to impart the thoughts, actions and outcomes of
others who are actively engaged in pushing for positive change. And I welcome
your input, even skeptical cynicism into what I hope will become a lively place
for dialogue.

I want to start by why I am insistent on using ‘gooder’ in making the world
better. I hope you will read on - encouraging me to be gooder, and be
open-minded to why you can be gooder too.

Gooder:/goŏd er|noun - purposeful decision-making practice to do what one knows
to be right; verb - the iterative process of making something better than what
exists  

 


GOOD, BAD OR WHATEVER...

Even young children have some understanding of what’s good or bad.  And when we
act, then we do so knowing morally what’s is right or wrong. Yet life is so
complex that often the default is ‘whatever’, and we make decisions because we
need to move onward in a fast lane life.   I find myself saying that word when I
don’t act in a conscious way.   It’s dismissive of the outcome, and
relinquishing all responsibility. Yet regularly we hear the blaming and the
bemoaning of our collective consequence.

 

As an avid learner, one thing I’ve learned is the gap that exists between
knowledge and purposeful action.  Why is it that increasingly people recognize
that we as a human race are living in an unsustainable way in a contained
system. We know that we are depleting resources and creating unhappiness that
may lead to our world’s demise. This is a real consequence of our collective
whatever.      

 

In my full and busy life, I’m often running late. So I take the car over public
transit.  As a charter member of the Toronto Bixi bike program, I believe in
community bike programs. I’ll expand on bikes another time but my point is that
even when I know I should, and intend to take transit, I regularly take the
car.  Which is part of the reason I need to be gooder.  I like driving my car,
and I have so much stuff to do.

 

There are so many justifications and reasons I do this and I even thank those
who take up an offer for a ride to assuage my guilt. But something in the oil
pipeline is going to remind me truly do the right thing and get over the
whatever choice of taking the car.  I recently went to a Centre for Social
Innovation Salon featuring Our Horizons.  Robert Shirkey made a powerful pitch
for municipalities to putting compelling message stickers on gas nozzles to make
us aware that each time we pull the trigger on the pump, we are knowingly
contributing to the environmental problem.  My heartfelt applause and support
for his group’s efforts could not negate my sheepish admittance that I drove
there.  

 

While I can’t undo what I knew to be bad, I can make amends, and why I am
committed to being gooder.  I can support Our Horizon’s efforts by adding my
support through my municipal councillor. And I can encourage all you dear reader
to make the effort to attend an Our Horizon presentation, or check out their
launch article http://bit.ly/UDgwEg . And if you can’t be bothered, soon you may
be spending time staring at the warning message as you pump gas.

 

Driving less will be a challenge for me but I know the extra effort I make will
make me feel better, and I value my wellbeing and that of others. It takes and
effort that is worthwhile to closing the gap between knowing what is right, and
acting in a purposeful manner.

 


MAKE WITHIN YOUR CONTROL

Janet Morton - Canadian Monument #2, 1994 @ FAT - Fashion Art Toronto,  April
2013

 

Local production allows for greater accountability

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CONSCIOUS CONSUMPTION

What if we could buy our way into making the world a better place?  That’s the
focus of gooderGoods.  Gooder is a word I use to describe the iterative –
ongoing – design process that addresses the goodness that exists in most
people.  And goods are stuff.

If you concede that we live on a finite planet, our consumption is a problem. 
We live in the mess of our own creation. And the age that we live in has answers
to change the way we live for the betterment of all.

So why don’t we do the right thing?  Because doing the right thing is not always
easy, or even immediately rewarded, or viewed as a desired outcome.

I’ve had the great privilege of working with top global trend forecasters for
more than twenty years.  And a core value that forecasters offer is naming the
changes, and proposing a tangible way to address the shift in a response of
colour, form and feel.

It’s not easy to shift from what we know to commit to actionable decisions made
on new information that challenges the status quo.  My insight with change
resistance is both professional as well as personal and what I know is that
change happens, and I can’t stop it but I can respond.  

 

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

                                                                        Aldous
Huxley

As noted, the global forecasters I work with provide tactical solutions focused
on a specific point in time and area of interest.  But what their insight also
provided was observations of the shift in values as we move from the ‘me to we’
mindset.  This identified change does not involve everyone at the same time so
there is a range of reactions that includes holding onto old values. I’ve
watched and explored this paradigm shift for many years.  And I can better
appreciate the complexity of what I now see is a value shift within a system
that includes makers, sellers and consumers. 

My core focus is on the consumption of goods.  Some of us make and sell, but we
all consume. And if our consumption decisions are based on old mindsets, I hope
to share my insights to make better conscious decisions on what we chose to buy
– or not buy.  I know there are solutions but they are not easy to animate to
effectiveness as a ‘me’.  Therefore I hope you will tune in for future
gooderGoods posting from the edge.  I don’t have all the answers so I’m open to
listen and have a conversation so collectively ‘we’ can create a desired life on
our finite planet.

   


 

And check out the podcast interview that I did with www.openkwongdore.com –

http://www.openkwongdore.com/2014/09/22/episode-92-kelly-okamura/

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