It is a design issue.

It is the final rush of political hoopla leading up to the election for our new president. I must say, I was a little upset with comments by Gov. Palin about Obama associating with Ayers. At a time in United States history when we are facing economic collapse, having our military be overstretched, and people loosing their homes, having politicians sling fear-based comments rather than offering us plans for their presidency is shameful.

My position, is that we need new designs for how America functions and operates. This would not be easy. However, continuing to follow the easy path will continue to produce erratic solutions, and an unstable economy and political structure. People, all of us, need to realize that in order to truly change the way our country is progressing will take effort on all of our parts. We cannot leave the future of our country to the politicians, and wall street alone. These people are the definition of doing the same old thing and getting the same results. There are answers out there.

William McDonough in his book Cradle to Cradle, provides a new vision for how we think about how we do things. He and his co-author use the ecological model of there is no waste in nature. In nature the waste of one organism is food for another. We need to take that concept and apply it to how we do business, build everything, run our government, and design our infrastructure. It will take work, take time, and effort. However, in the long run, we will end up with a dynamic and abundantly sustainable framework to lead our country, and the world, in to the future. It is time for a dramatically different way to approach how we do things.