ALLIANCE FOR A SUSTAINABLE COLORADO
Thursday, August 21st, 2008BARBARA MARX HUBBARD
FOR THE ALLIANCE FOR A SUSTAINABLE COLORADO
“We hold these truths to be self-evident:
All people are born creative
Endowed by our Creator
With the inalienable
Right and Responsibility
To express their creativity
For the good of themselves
and the whole community.”
Excerpt from Barbara Marx Hubbard’s 1984 acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention when her name was placed in nomination for Vice President of the United States.
After the use of atomic bombs in World War II, Barbara Marx Hubbard at the age of 22 asked President Eisenhower, “What is the meaning of all our new powers that is good?”
Eisenhower replied, “I have no idea.”
Barbara replied, “Then we’d better find out.”
Thus began the journey for the creation of the White House Solutions Council. For 60 years Barbara has held the vision for the formation of a peace room as sophisticated as our war room. Meanwhile our country has been unable to solve the growing problems that have led us to the crises we’re currently facing. Our goal is to establish a center that will seek common goals and match needs and resources for the implementation of creative problem solving. Out of the breakdowns in our society we see breakthroughs in every field: health, education, environment, economics, government, etc. The White House Solutions Council would be a clearinghouse to seek new ideas for the betterment of humanity. The Citizens Solutions Council believes that with change imminent, a new administration can be empowered during this convention to implement this vision.
The White House Solutions Council
A Center for identifying, connecting and communicating
What’s Working in America
As America is poised at the threshold of political change, the citizens of our country are looking for solutions to the critical issues confronting our nation. The Citizens Solutions Council is proposing to re-energize the office of the Vice President and add a function to focus on innovations that can become the basis for the change our nation is demanding. Every citizen can contribute to this Center to help connect and communicate these positive solutions to resolve our current problems.
We propose the White House Solutions Council be established in the Office of the Vice President to encourage and highlight the creativity of the American people.
The White House Solutions Council will become a clearinghouse to match needs and resources for social innovations, solutions and projects that are already working in the fields of education, health, environment, economics etc.
Databases of empirical solutions are growing by the day. The Vice President’s office would provide a home for the marriage of human creativity and economic implementation.
Therefore, just as a simple comment to John F. Kennedy initiated the birth of the Peace Corps, the Citizens Solution Council proposes at this convention that the next administration create the White House Solutions Council as a new function for the office of the Vice President.
Most social problems have been solved by someone, somewhere, but the solutions are not widely known. With the help of the media and the instantaneous power of the Internet, these solutions can become reality.
Thanks to the Big Tent for providing the venue where this concept will be brought forth and inspire the grassroots movement that will promote greater creativity in problem solving for our future government.
For more information: Contact Citizens Solutions Council at info@citizenssolutionscouncil.net
