Everything Under The Sun: Sustainability And Environmental Sensitivity Through A Virtual Community

Dr. Guy Tanner

A force for good, diverse individuals coming together for a purpose, a quest to improve the quality and diversity of life - that's all in the mission of GREEN TAU, a virtual community/organization. Environmental sustainability helps to increase the diversity of life and helps to prolong Earth's biosphere. In order to preserve that biosphere, people must care enough to stop or reduce the human contribution of environmental toxins and carbon-based materials that reduce the potential for life of other creatures and organisms. We must accept that we are stewards of this planet and utilize its resources in a sustainable way, that does not reduce the life chances of plants and other animals.

Recently Dr. Guy Tanner, who is chairman of Green Tau and also head architect at Thyme Gardens of England, framed this message, "At the Thyme Gardens of England, our wildlife company, we install rain-fed ponds & use drought-tolerant native plants. Global warming means unpredictable weather, and Nature suffers first." Certainly, human beings are the ones with capable thinking processes that can develop solutions to the changing climate, such as cultivating drought-tolerant plants. But there are limits, such as helping various species of animals re-adapt to the climatic changes in places where animal species usually live. Whether those species move to other locations or incorporate genetic changes into their make-up is not a decision that can be made by humans.

Take a look at this. At the exact same time that political leaders in the US are out to increase this country's carbon consumption through mining more coal, reducing air pollution standards, allow dumping of chemicals into nature's waters, the people of China are declaring their unhappiness with the polluted conditions under which they live. Chinese cities have become posters of what happens when carbon-based pollution is allowed to persist unchecked. It's a very hazy vista which prevails in many areas, along with unbreathable air, something we used to see before the Environmental Protection Agency regulated the amount of pollution emissions.

It comes down to the personal at green Tau.

Unlike in the US, Chinese leaders are now listening, to the point that reducing smog has assumed a prominent place at the annual National People's Congress. But in order for this type of discussion to occur, people must see the reality of the effect of carbon-based pollutants on the world around them. They must consider themselves to have an effect, to become stewards of this planet, protecting the natural environment. That comes from thinking of your role in how this world works and in doing something, anything, that helps to sustain the natural world. If more and more people do what they can, in their little corner of the world, maybe combining all of these actions can take our planet forward and prevent the biosphere from destruction.