What We Have Done at Green World Trust! See the recent replies from the leader of the Labour party and the Treasury to Dragonfly Trust's Proposal for an eco-tax on petroleum and plastics GWT's main work is now taking on the Transition Towns model, strategically redesigning the website and starting a local Transition group in Highbridge, Burnham and Berrow - Somerset, UK.

Green World Trust (was Dragonfly Trust, and before that was Magdalene House Trust) has been in existence for about ten years, the first five years of which were spent in Glastonbury, working with casualties of modern life.

We achieved a lot of success in rescuing drug and alcohol abuse victims, counselling those in crisis and "spiritual emergency", housing the homeless and restoring self-confidence and self-respect in people who had suffered emotional or physical trauma.

We also rescued another charity that was on the verge of collapse and brought it back to being a fully functioning, viable operation. For this we established a charity shop and ran it ourselves, together with volunteers from among the people we were helping (this was a part of the rehabilitation programme).

During that time we initiated the principle of requiring housing developers to build “social need housing” in direct proportion to the total number of houses built on any one project. This was taken up by the minister for housing at that time and is now standard practice in several areas.

Becoming increasingly aware of the urgently pressing nature of global issues, we then decided to extend our activities into investigating the nature of the global issues and approaches to finding solutions for the major problems, both local and global, that are responsible for creating problems at the individual and local levels. This led to the formation of our group and to many hours of learning how to communicate with one another and with those outside the group.

As a group we came to realize how precious our support of each other was, and how, with gentle, aware, regular support, that reached into whatever we needed to attend to, whether big or small, we were becoming a springboard to "Think Global Act Local".  WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO THE SAME AS US!! We are aware that there is still a vital gap here, that across the planet we need small, local groups everywhere. 

We have begun to explore some of the ways in which we can “Think Global and Act Local”, two of which are expressed as our concept of “Planetary Citizenship” and an original idea which we refer to as the “Twig Rating”. We intend to continue the development of both of these and more. "Twig Rating" in particular needs the backing of a wide network of information. We realized how badly we needed to contact the scientists, the lone thinkers, to get our brilliant idea concrete enough to be taken seriously by the universities research departments...

We thus became very aware of the importance of “strength in numbers” and being able to reach and empower ordinary people who often feel disempowered in the face of global change and challenge. We saw we needed to reach out to others of like mind, and what better way than through a website. Other pioneers say similar things, have a look at our "Quotations" page for inspiration. Here is Guy Dauncey writing probably the best user-friendly book on "101 Solutions to Climate Change":

The technologies exist to make the transition into the solar-hydrogen age.  The policies that can accelerate them have been pioneered in places as far afield as Denmark, India, Sacramento, and Freiburg.  The piece that is missing is a worldwide movement in every village and every city... that will create the political will to make the transition happen.

In this way we can grow together and can become a real and potent force for change. 

This is probably our greatest single accomplishment to date, that we have built the website and it is “open for business”.  We have qualifications in Spiritual Counselling, Life Coaching, Management, and we have the experience of running successful Business - but our work with Green World Trust has allowed our horizons to expand to the call of the times and the needs of the planet.

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