How can we better connect people so that we work together from within disparate, separated communities to support common values like sustainability?

People are very separated by geography, demographics, types of governments (e.g., repressive regimes), technology and other variables. This separation puts people and communities into “information silos” that tend to keep valuable information from each other.

For example, US computer users may not know where their discarded computers go and how they affect those in proximity to where they are discarded. Computers contain all sorts of chemicals that harm the ecology and human health. If they were aware of the consequences of discarding computers in certain unsustainable ways (dumping in landfills for example) they might take action to ensure that chemicals are recycled and kept out of ecosystems and communities.

The Agent Orange debacle in the Vietnam War is another such example.

Sustainable population size is another area of concern. When people in one town have children, we are blind to how this affects our local, regional, national and global sustainability. How can we manage all nations’ populations at a sustainable size globally and for each nation and region?

In general, how can we organize people to first learn about and understand our common values–like health, love of nature, support for ecology?

Then how can we act on those values to create systems that support people, economies, communities, ecology, species, biodiversity, natural processes, etc.–locally, regionally, nationally and globally?