I work to ensure that people, worldwide, realise that 'water' must be kept fresh and clean for the benefit of
'life' whether used by people, plants, birds, fish or insects. Clean fresh water must stay freely available and must not fall into short supply through mismanagement. I will be helping to shape the better world by
getting everyone to focus on this vital, shared concern and then getting them to work towards achieving and maintaining a World Clean Water Environment.Whilst the UN may realize this need at a government
and political level, it is my work to get each individual consumer to pick up the cudgels and act. This way, my vision is turned into solid reality. Where did this idea originate and how did it develop ? I started writing poems about oil spills on beaches when aged nine and would rescue sea life tangled in discarded netting. At school I wrote essays where I
would insist that it was possible to win the race against pollution and awaken people to the damage we are all causing to the balance of Mother Nature.
At 18 years, I studied Aquaculture and by 23 was working as
part of a research team on fish production projects funded by Fisons, BP, Shell, Hoechst UK, BOC, IMI, Tomatin Distillers, Highlands and Islands, Dev. Board. When asked to trial new growth hormone feeds on Rainbow Trout
and Salmon, I realised that Aquaculture was going the way of Agriculture and left the industry that I had hoped would grow to feed the World. At 30 years, I co-founded the UK's only Charity devoted to Campaigning for Clean Water for all water reliant life. Today I Chair that Charity. Why do you believe the idea is crucial ? Clean usable Fresh Water for all life is the crucial idea created by Nature, not me. It is certainly crucial to preserve quality life on Earth and my
personal reason for this is because the journey of life fascinates me and the outcome deserves to be reached by those generations that follow us in the most healthy of environments we can leave them.
How will you set about achieving your vision ? By continuing a programme of teaching awareness, promoting understanding and a passion for 'tomorrow'. By networking with those that create the problems
and helping them with creative solutions - hands-on. By stirring the Media of the World to appreciate that this 'vision' is on behalf of every living thing as 'water' has no barriers - we share every drop of it every
nano-second, and always have done.By developing links with fine groups around the World
. By creating a central online hub to correlate projects, feedback and results. By encouraging other's through practical progressive actions and talks. What help will you need e.g. people, resources, funding ? I need to win the support of Consumers. This is vital for we all consume thus contribute to the present situation. I will need an excellent dedicated
P.A. or two as work increases.
Intent is all. I know that if it is meant for me to follow this vision, then donations
will arrive, people and resources will be forthcoming - this is what faith is all about and my faith is in human nature and its ability to recognise the best way forward when helped to understand the options. Whilst I devote my energies on the help I can give, the World will provide exactly the help I need at the right time.
Where will the work be carried out, what part of the World will benefit and will there be a
geographical limit to your work ? One drop of water, then two, then a lake, a sea and the clouds
themselves. There can be no geographical limit to this Vision by its very nature. The beauty of the 'message' is that it is the same message whichever language you use to tell it. The Work needs to be
carried out globally. First in pockets of activity ; these pockets need to spread till they touch so as to cover the planet. During the five years, how will you know - and how will we know - that you are making progress ? Buildings and lungs look cleaner and stay cleaner longer when you keep pollution out of the air. Rivers when cleaned up allow flora and fauna to breed.
Such clear markers of progress are as easy to see as those of regress.
Whilst good and bad results clock up lineage in the press, true progress is when poor quality short-term thinkers are converted into top
quality long term ones and we start seeing this reflect in Personal, Company and Country mission statements and actions. I will publish all developments on the WoW Web site and develop a results-based 'indicator'. I'll
produce quarterly reviews and annual summaries for you. How will the World - or a part of it - be
more just and/or more peaceful after 5 years of your work and passionate commitment ?
Peace in our times is something we all have to battle to secure and then work to maintain. My commitment to this work is born of my ongoing
passion and respect for fellow creatures and my wish that they should also live a natural quality life - we depend upon them.
It is more 'just' to preserve water supplies for villages than to set up commercial
water bottling plants alongside villages that lower aquifer levels and force villagers to buy water they once collected freely. It is more 'just' to work towards preventing 'water wars' than it is to
create water shortages by benefiting from wood sales following deforestation and mismanagement. The 'just' World I work to evolve, is one that understands balance and through my devotion to teaching and
promoting balance, the World will be spirited closer to attaining balance following my next five years and my lifetime. Why are you best placed to take this idea forward ? Those 'best placed' to make the changes just get on with it. Others are no doubt following their
vision and supporting other journeys that need to be taken. I am the best person 'placed' to follow my vision - I am following it at this very moment and sharing it with you. What risks are you taking, what might stop the work being effective and how would you try to overcome challenges and risks ? It is a greater risk for action NOT to be taken on this vision thus any risks I take pale in insignificance. The work has to be effective - like
a baton race, I will take the vision as far as my energies allow, and then some more. Some came before me, many are with me, even more will follow. Challenges are placed to be overcome, it is their nature. There are
many ways to approach challenges and the best way is to use creative stamina which, thank goodness, I seem to harvest from living. After five years, will your work be complete or will it require further development by you or by others ? It will take longer than 5 years because the paths are many and some are uphill. Some will be there to actively block the vision's progress because it will
mean 'changes' - too few court 'changes', especially if they see no short term gain. Others will follow - I will see it through for as long as I breathe. Section 3 - About You What have you done in the past that prepares you for this challenge and how does this application build on - or divert you from - your current skills,
experience and interests ? I have made my 'Life' my training ground - everything I do, 'compounds'. I only seek
and accept assistance that supports my direction and vision.
In relation to your vision, what do you consider to be your greatest achievement ?
Making a lot from the little I have received and maintaining the stamina to continue.
How do you see the transition to becoming a Visionary ? Seamless What will you do at the end of the five year period ? Press on with regard, love and thanks, carrying another torch that forever burns brightly saying "There are many who care and when the time is right,
those you meet along the way are placed there"
What inspires and nourishes you and what are your values and your view of the world. People inspire and nourish
me. I publish my views and activities online for friends and wanderers in a journal / note form at www.thehobb.tv because the feedback I get is international and multiculturally nourishing. I value all life and take the
view that we should all work towards attaining 'Worldly Wisdom'. The first step to this is to understand the balance that Mother Nature is holding and work to support her, not against her. Though no individual
experiences the full development and fall of 'Civilisations', the communal spirit both creates and destroys these orchard harvests. The evergreen Civilisation we work to grow, shares the harvests and loves to share. At
the moment, I cannot view the World through my evergreen glasses because they do not work, but by sharing my vision and working my given moments towards achieve it, I may help to clarify the position we are in and the
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