Concerned about the future? The Foundation of Sustainable Living (FOSL) is hosting "How And Why To Live Sustainably: Working for the Best while preparing for the worst." It will take place at the Live Oak Green Grange, 1900 17th Avenue, Santa Cruz on May 25th from 7-9 p.m. Free. Contacts: Hina Pendle, 831-662-2232, hina@uspartners.com, Parker Watwood, 877-675-0604, parker@lifecircle.com

The Foundation of Sustainable Living (FOSL) is hosting "How And Why To Live Sustainably," an evening of presentations and community conversation about how we should address the coming perfect storm of exponential overpopulation, unsustainable consumption of resources, global pollution, peak oil production and climate change.

"How And Why To Live Sustainably," will take place at the Live Oak Green Grange, 1900 17th Avenue, Santa Cruz on May 25th from 7-9 p.m.

The Foundation of Sustainable Living (FOSL) believes we have identified, and have been working on, two of the three legs for sustainable living skill sets for both social and sustainable technologies. You are the third leg under the stool, community.

FOSL invites the public to join in for this participatory evening to review concerns, assumptions, solutions, finances and values concerning sustainable living and to advance the process of building a sustainable future.

We live in a time of: diminishing resources, massively disturbed climate and environment, eroding national economic conditions, an increasing world population overlaid with even an faster rise in world wide demand, fanatical religious orthodoxy, and lost leadership busily quashing education for the common citizen while grasping for ever tighter control and power.

Humanity is living on the Earth unsustainably. How much longer can this go on without a global collapse?

Mega-multinational corporations own our elected officials, and governments. Corporations control the "democratic" process with money, self-serving laws and tax breaks; and control most of our basic needs: water, food, medicine, fuel, mobility, crop seeds, clothing & land use. Most people's thoughts and actions are also controlled through pervasive advertising, and the saturation of changing laws. To survive as a healthy humane culture, we must connect to talk, innovate, plan and act now.