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The Next Evolution: A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet [Paperback]

Jack Reed (Author)
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June 2001
As we know, the world faces many challenges at the close of the millennium. These problems are now so severe and so interconnected that to try to solve any one of them within our present model of living is at best a Band-Aid approach. As a result, the projections are that our quality of life will greatly diminish in the next few decades. Knowing this, many authors have written many books advancing their theories about what can be done. Unfortunately, few, if any, of these books step out of the box and go far enough to really address the changes that have to be made. THE NEXT EVOLUTION: A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet asks and answers, in a simple and practical way, the question: How can we start making the planet work for everyone? This book challenges the viability of our every-person-for-themselves approach to living that has been so ingrained through thousands of years of practice that most people have never even conceived of an alternative approach—especially one that would include our entire planet.

We are currently living and relating with each other and the planet in an archaic approach that is no longer viable if we want to have high quality life on the planet in the 21st century. The piecemeal way our lives are set up, the way our cities are designed, and the way our economy runs all operate such that the end result is that they isolate and separate us and impoverish our lives. They are set up for us to try to survive and get ahead on our own and to continue to intrude upon and destroy our environment. Therefore, we need to move away from this individualistic model to one that really works for and includes all of us and all life. We have to start acting like one family—where the needs of the one are the concern of everyone.

Since there are enough resources and manpower on our planet for all of us to be living abundantly and in harmony with all life, what is the problem? Changing the way we live together in Community is the basic building block that is needed to transform the planet. The Next Evolution shows how we can design Communities on a "Highest Good For Everyone" model, and how we can live very, very abundant lifestyles—on all levels, not just economic—that would appeal to almost everyone while simultaneously restoring our environment. This is a total systems approach (the systems approach tells us that all things are interconnected), and, at this point in our history, nothing less is called for and nothing less will work.

The two things needed to transform the planet are the consciousness of people living for the Highest Good and the creation of a model of what living for the Highest Good of all life would look like. While there has been a lot of work done and countless books written about the consciousness, few people have an understanding of what the form would look like because few really consider what can be done by combining the consciousness with the form. I think that this combination is what is unique about this book. Also, no one has described how we can live together in Community on a scale that is not only easily doable but would also absolutely heal and transform the planet and people's lives on all levels. The Next Evolution will be the springboard to naturally and peacefully bring about the greatest (r)Evolution in living since people first began the current way that we live and interact with each other.

The Next Evolution is the product of years of visionary work by myself and a group of people, The Community Planet Foundation, who chose to take a very different look at how we are choosing to live together on the planet.


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"A sweeping and upbeat manifesto offering a prescription that will resolve contempory social, economic, political, environmental, economic, and social issues." -- Small Press Bookwatch, April 2004

"I join Jack in seeking a newer world, and I applaud his high intention to produce a plan of action." -- Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conersations with God

"That it is one of those priceless looks into the future as only Buckminster Fuller used to do for me." -- Audrey Reed, author of Money Toolbox for Women

"The Next Evolution: a Blueprint for Transforming the Planet is recommended reading for everyone concerned about our future." -- Hope Dance Magazine, March/ April 2004

From the Publisher

If we're going to continue to even HAVE a world, we're going to have to start making it work for everyone.

This book lays out the blueprint for a world community that works!

Do you know that there are enough resources and manpower for all life to live together on the planet very abundantly? Are you aware that there is a way to tap these resources that is sustainable and where everyone wins?

This book boldly shows how we can not only save our environment, but also create the opportunity for all people everywhere to lead inspired and abundant lives on all levels. The Next Evolution meticulously describes new paradigm Communities—the basic building block that is needed to transform the world.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 318 pages
  • Publisher: Community Planet Foundation (June 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0974016101
  • ISBN-13: 978-0974016108
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,728,759 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Offering revolutionary models for living in harmony, April 12, 2004
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The Next Evolution: A Blueprint For Transforming The Planet by Jack Reed is an original work of vision which encompasses worldwide ecological, political, economic, and cultural realities. Offering revolutionary models for living in harmony and sharing abundance in a manner that will allow the world and all its people to thrive, The Next Evolution is a sweeping and upbeat manifesto of specific methods by which humanity can best transform and enlighten itself. What the readers are offered is quite literally, a prescription that will resolve contemporary social, economic, political, environmental, economic, and social issue concerns that otherwise will threaten the very continuance of humankind on planet Earth.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Planetary Transformation via Sustainable Communities, July 7, 2004
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"The Next Evolution" is a Wake-Up Call for people everywhere. We must understand that the Human Race can no longer afford to cling to its present "everyone-for-themselves" mindset. Autho Jack Reed likens Humanity to a dynfunctional family, since it considers the relatively long-term problems of our Ecological and Social Dilemmas to be so scary and overwhelming, that most of us contue to live in a state of denial and disconnectedness regarding the Real World.
Reed explains that those who sit on the Boards of the Print and Broadcast Media all too often are key players in Multinational Corporations that exercise control more powerful than many governments. Through their me-first, profit-driven motivation, "free-enterprise" has come to be equated with "freedom." It is Reed's thesis, that the responsibilty for the success and well-being of the human race is now in our hands, and that is is through a new sense of "Community" that we can not only save Earth's Biosphere, but create the opportunity for all inhabitants of the Planet to lead lives of inspiration and sustainable abundance.
Reed points out the value of establishing prototypical models for Sustainable Communities, which focus on Synergy and Cooperation. Following the visionary concepts of Bucky Fuller he concludes that the only way we can possibly take care of everyone, is through a Design Revolution...a (r)evolution that incorporates the basic principles of Sustainability and Community for the Highest Common Good. In Reed's eyes we are presently facing inevitable environmental disasters and global-scale social upheavals...Grim Legacies, which we must not leave for the generations to come. He highlights the "Twin Towers" of Environmental Destruction and Poverty, presenting his readers with a simple, basic model for sustainability: "The responsibility is in our hands, but we can not depend on nations, politicians, or vested multinationals to make the changes.Instead, we must boldly demonstrate, through Cooperative Communities, how we can not only save our Planet's Environment, but also create the opportunity for everyone to lead inspired and abundant lives." This is a thoughtful, socially responsible and provocative book, based on Social Cooperation and Sustainability, achieved via a Renaissance in Community Consciousness Design. Elliott Maynard, Ph.D., President, Arcos Cielos Research Center, Sedona, Arizona.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best solution I have ever encountered for the problems we have created on this planet, June 28, 2008
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The Next Evolution: A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet

For those of you who have seen the movie 'Wall-E', you will relate easily to this inspiring book, which teaches us how to realistically save ourselves and the planet we inhabit. Even if you have not seen the movie 'Wall-E' you are probably fully aware by now of the devastating effects our current lifestyles are having on this planet. There are solutions and Jack outlines them in a very clear, precise and inspiring manner in 'The Next Evolution'. We must each take responsibility now for how we live our lives and Jack has done the work by creating the plan for us to implement.

With Love & Gratitude
Karen Williams
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