A
collaborative
project with support from the Sisters of the Holy Names
Dedicated
to the mission of education. Within this mission, we
promote justice and create community.
The purpose of this website is to offer educational and informational
resources in support of our SNJM commitment to becoming a transformative
presence in the world.
"If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up
where we are headed."(Chinese Proverb)
Fran Korten in a Yes Magazine editorial (www.yesmagazine.org)
wrote: "Every culture has stories - received wisdom that defines
and confines what is viewed as possible and right. These stories
can be more powerful than armies in preventing people from
acting on options that could improve, or even save their lives.
When we think about how to change the world, we must think
about how to change the stories."
Dysfunctional stories - such as the prevailing cultural story
that says we can't possibly live without oil and that there
are no viable alternatives to our carbon-based economy - need
to be left behind just as the stories touting the merits and
inevitability of the slave-based economies of the past, were
left behind. Why? Because these antiquated, outdated stories
severely limit our society's capacity to solve the many critical
problems we now face.
We need a new story. We need a new vision of a clean, green,
renewable and sustainable economy that will create millions
and millions of new jobs (that cannot be outsourced), even
as we make the necessary transition to a post-petroleum world.
Powerful and vested interests will tell us there are no
alternatives to our fossil fuel based economy, but there are,
and together we can change, not only these stories, but the
direction in which we are headed.
What story, what future do we want? Which will we choose?
Sister Mimi Maloney SNJM Sister Katherine Gray SNJM
Letter to the Editor, The Olympian, July 2010
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