Wednesday April 22nd was Earth Day and to be honest, I didn’t do anything particular to celebrate or honour it. I was too busy blogging, driving kids from activities, fixing meals, doing laundry, changing light bulbs and arranging my next trip to Canada. So when this video crossed my desk this morning via Twitter, I thought it was a great way to both acknowledge the importance of Earth Day – everyday AND a good follow-up to my post from yesterday about personal safety and change.

Although the environmental and human rights movements are sometimes perceived as two different things – especially in many developed countries like the United States – in much of the world they are closely intertwined.

As part of their 30th-anniversary issue, Inc. asked Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and Built to Last, what we might expect in the next 30 years. His answer: uncertainty, chaos, turbulence, and risk.

In the end, I think we need to have absolute faith in our ability to deal with whatever is thrown at us. And we need to have a complete, realistic paranoia that a lot can be thrown at us. It’s our ability to put those two contradictory ideas together: We need to be prepared for what we can’t predict and, at the same time, have this total, unwavering faith that we will find a way to deal with all of it. And I believe we will.

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