The Blue Path Newsletter Summer 2012

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Florida’s Best Future

Summer Solstice 2012

The choice is ours

Floridians: What’s your vision for Florida’s best future? When you drink water, remember the spring.

— Chinese proverb

CONTENTS page

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Water Use & Wise Choices Civics 101 page

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Blue Revolution

Exhibition: Travels on the Blue Path page

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What Can You Do? Selected Resources

Healthy springs, lakes, rivers and coastal beaches? High-quality jobs and a prosperous economy? How about an education system that prepares young people for the global 21st-century workforce? Do you believe Florida deserves her best destiny? Do we have a viable choice?

Florida’s Blue Path charts a course that allows us to choose all of the above. In fact, take heart! Everything we need for Florida’s best future is already present in our Florida friendly back yard!

Compare these futures: Florida’s economic history has largely been a process of taking raw materials and using them to generate one-time profits. We overfished our seas, exhausted our soils, drained away our water and left behind many impoverished communities. The current extractive economy treats water as both nuisance and commodity. This is the mindset that sought to get rid of water and got rid of too much; now it seeks to control and privatize water in man-made systems. We’re asked to believe that this is Florida’s destiny. There is another choice. Already many thousands of Floridians are engaged in the new creative economy. We seek ways to grow crops, maintain cities, and generate power while valuing and living sustainably with our land, air and water. New technologies in biomedical research, electronics, agriculture, green building and transportation combine with the arts and music, film and digital media industries. Creative communities flourish because there is an open sharing of diverse ideas, everyone contributes what they do best, and prosperity is spread to all citizens. In this new economy, Florida has all of the ingredients to take our rightful place as a global model. The time has come to choose Florida’s best future.

These can be inspiring times as we Floridians exercise our choice to create a paradigm shift in how we live and make a living. The choice begins with all of us imagining a different future, finding rewards in adopting new practices, and commanding better from our leaders.

Florida’s Best Choice the vision: On The Blue Path, Floridians discover new ways to live with water and recognize that a healthy environment is essential for a prosperous economy.

www.TheBluePath.org The Blue Path includes the water programs of Florida’s Eden, an educational 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

We believe The Blue Path offers a blueprint for Florida’s best choice.

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