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

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• 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.