Across the globe from Australia to Africa, the Americas to all of Asia and Europe, within communitarian circles, waste is seen as an opportunity lost to recycle, repair or else repurpose, together with a failure of our duty to care and accommodate the welfare of current and future generations of people as well as animals, and to protect the reaches of the Earth – our only home.

In a world facing unprecedented ecological destruction from mining; toxic pollution of air, water and land; along with deforestation, loss of top-soil and bio-diversity caused by the relentless exploitation of natural resources, as a whole, mankind finds itself at a precipice that demands a transformation of how we live. Converting to an evolved restructured socio-economic system of production and distribution of goods and services to align with ecological stewardship, requires a shift from extraction and waste to a model of planned collaborative provisioning that conserves, regenerates, and shares resources equitably.

Secular society’s wide-spread acceptance of wasting resources through addiction to GLAMOUR that includes fast fashion, excessive single-household consumption, disposable products, and single-use convenience, conflicts with the communitarian ethic that values resources as shared assets that we are obligated to manage and utilize responsibly.  For these reasons, from the 5^th year of Association and beyond, communitarians are called upon to demonstrate ways to live simply and sustainably through utilizing our collective intelligence underpinned by ethical values to manage resources through active participatory governance of collaborative provisioning of all that sustains life, liberty and security for people, animals and planet.