Over at No Impact Man, a short discussion of how to go about reducing our environmental impact on the world highlights volunteering in a group as a key part of actually effecting change. Makes me think too about how we create change in churches and beyond.
When you’re just trying to save the world in your head, it seems that progress depends on getting everyone on the same page. ‘If only everyone rode bikes….’ or ‘If only everyone was a vegetarian…..’ When you get out and talk to people, you find that reality is complicated, and that the solutions are many. Instead of sitting alone, fretting that ‘people will never change,’ we find that people are changing, and offering fresh solutions for our seemingly intractable problems.
