apps – ProxThink River

Here’s my current description of an upcoming workshop on sustainable variety. I’m thinking of calling it the Get More Sustainable Variety Workshop. I’ll let you know when things are more finalized and you can sign up!

Why Sign Up —
You may share a situation with some friends, family, co-workers, neighbors or others. Your shared situation is whatever your group is dealing with or considering. With smartphones, we have new possibilities. This hands-on workshop will show you how to combine the Quip mobile app and the sustainable proximities approach, helping you collaborate better to improve shared situations. Doing so can lead to greater sustainable variety, since keeping the proximity alive is boosted by variety. Not only that, this approach gives people chances to relate to the proximity in a wider variety of ways. We’ll use examples most people can adapt to their own lives, and collaborate on some real world situations too. You’ll try things and can ask questions as we go. If you can’t join us in person, you can join us online!

How can proximity thinking be used to think about, and relate to, the current California drought?

The mind map below should be pretty self-explanatory. Click the image to open it full-size. Once open, you can zoom it even larger.

NOTE — THE REST OF THIS PAGE IS BASICALLY JUST FOR SEARCH ENGINES.
Since search engines can’t index the text in an image, I’m including the text from the graphic below. However, I’d recommend only looking at the graphic, as it will make a lot more sense. Also, WordPress is adding some blank lines in the outline below, and I can’t fix it. So please imagine there are no blank lines!

• A proximity thinking example, including a few basic definitions. To learn more, visit proxthink.com.
• Situation – A “situation” is whatever you are dealing with or considering.
• Element – Loosely, an “element” can be anything. Any person, place, thing, idea, feeling, time, group, relationship, situation, proximity, etc.
• Proximity – The “proximity” consists of elements related or potentially related to a situation, in physical, mental and other ways.

SITUATION
California Drought
—
Elements in
the proximity of this
situation.
- Need for water
  savings.
- A challenge shared by
  everyone in the region.
  - Consequences of failing to
    reduce water use.
- How much water are
  we saving?
- Incentives to save water.
  - Save money.
  - Avoid penalties.
  - To help yourself as
    well as others.
  - What other kinds of
    rewards might there be?
- What are ideas for saving water,
  and how do we share them?
- Lack of enough rain
  for many years.
- Water sources and
  related resources.
- People, organizations, equipment
  and infrastructure in the region.
- To what extent are our
  efforts coordinated?
  - How could this be improved?
- Weather and forecasts.
- Related technology,
  tools and processes.
- How can proximity thinking be used for this situation?
  - The ProxThink Growth Model, for people who share a proximity, has four main parts:
    - Vadi Agreements
      - Vadi Agreements
        acknowledge valuable
        differences and provide
        ways to sustain them.
      - Enough water to meet
        or exceed needs is a
        valuable difference.
      - This water vadi helps
        support many things, like
        survival, sustainability,
        stability, health, happiness
        and vibrant communities.
      - Vadi Agreements can be
        explicit (legal, contractual),
        or informal, as well as the
        general agreement that
        we’re in this together.
      - Agreements can also include
        goals for water savings, which
        ProxMonitors can help track.
    - ProxMonitors
      - A way to monitor and track
        water savings and other
        related information at different
        levels (personal,
        organizational, local, regional).
      - Proximity monitors increase
        proximity awareness, which can
        help many kinds of relationships.
      - Can be both technological
        monitors and people
        reporting current conditions.
    - Proxri
      - Sharing an idea for saving
        water is also a proxri.
      - Proxri are rewards which relate elements
        in the proximity. So such rewards are
        often made with the proximity in mind.
        
        Water you save is a proxri
        to yourself and others in
        the proximity.
      - Proxri can be money, or result in
        money, but the idea is much broader
        than money, and acknowledges the
        need for a wide variety of rewards.
      - Water savings may or may not
        result in money but these proxri can
        benefit multiple levels (personal,
        organizational, local, regional).
      - People may see proxri
        made by others, or needed
        proxri, at RelatePoints.
    - RelatePoints
      - Ideas for saving water can be
        shared via RelatePoints.
      - A primary place for coordinating
        relationships in this proximity.
      - A place to connect and access
        ProxMonitors, Vadi
        Agreements, Proxri (made and
        needed), and other related info.
      - Could be a website
        and/or a mobile app.
    - Are there other benefits to the ProxThink Growth Model approach?
      - We may develop new ways of
        managing shared challenges.
      - Since it enables people to see and relate to proximities in a wider
        variety of ways, it can lead to more variety in our lives, one of the
        keys to health, happiness, sustainability and vibrant communities.
      - It may help us realize how
        many proximties we share.

• Questions? Contact us via proxthink.com.
• Created by David Loughry.
• As you find this rewarding, please proxri with the proximity in mind via proxthink.com.

ProxThink River

by proxthink.com

Tag Archives: apps

Proximity Thinking about the California Drought