The last time I professionally allocated energy in a way that matched my interests, life’s purpose, and life’s path, I created a few of the most holistic ideas on Earth. One idea I call the Be Aware concept is a holistic, preventative space-and-time GIS environmental problem prevention and sustainability idea. I created this idea because of an urgent concern from a corporation that was pursuing third-party certification to continue its forestry operations. In fact, I believe many of my ideas at the time contributed to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, which was different from the Forest Stewardship Council, the certification I thought was further along than SFI. The basic idea was to inform foresters about environmental, ecological, and natural resource values on the landscape, rather than focusing on reactionary, reductionist legal perspectives. This was consistent with the holistic affirmative action paper I wrote in college in the 1990s when, after considering the idea of affirmative action, I said basically we don’t need more laws and policy about affirmative action or anything else, as we need to get back to the basics of love, common sense, and inclusion of everyone. In a way, I contrasted the current world with how things could be. However, when I tried to create an idea relative to my overall vision at my place of employment, I found it strange that foresters and, in general, people are so conditioned by police blotter cultures and reactionary reductionism that they renamed my “Be Aware” idea “Beware” by taking out the “A”. I did not find it very humorous, as a lot of thought and energy went into the project by not only me but others in the office, including an intern from the University of Maine who made all the associated PDF files that I linked to each one of the points and areas in the GIS layer. However, the layer was not perfect, as I digitized on screen in haste for areas where I did not have spatial data; I was mainly trying to show functionality and how it worked, with the expectation of continuous improvement as we adaptively strive toward desired future conditions. The Be Aware layer worked in ArcView GIS and reminded me of regions in Arc/Info GIS. So all a forester or anyone else had to do was to digitize a polygon on screen over the map to return everyone’s concerns to Be Aware. In fact, I even made the accumulated, overlapping polygons and points invisible because the view was overwhelming. However, the listing purpose was satisfied, and foresters would staple PDF printouts to their management plans and forest operation reports. The Be Aware layer worked great, and I realized the concept could be expanded to everything on Earth, including all the sites and areas of importance and significance to be aware of on Earth as a holistic preventative way instead of waiting around to get impacted by reactionary reductionist concepts. In fact, the Earth concept would make us aware of almost anything we should be aware of. In fact, this idea has so many applications, as it is a cumulative, totality-accumulation concept over time. In fact, I have thought of ideas like book locations, moose collision locations, news headlines, holistic prescriptive advice, and many more, including the Forester Be Aware planning and reporting applications and a broad-scale, holistic, harmonious humanity-in-nature perspective for preventing almost all major problems on Earth. There are so many ideas and creative applications of GIS that are up to your imagination. (Jack Dangermond-ESRI cofounder) In other words, I believe we can now transition away from our police blotter culture’s current condition toward a brighter, desired future by focusing on holistic prevention instead. Another idea I had while working at this employer was a spatially or Location-enabled integrated device that combines everything needed or desired functionality into one handheld device. One of my responsibilities in my traditional job was GPS coordinator, so I had plenty of time to imagine a better future for everyone. I used the example of logging coordinates to share with colleagues so overlap could be eliminated, tremendously enhancing efficiency for the entire organization, like closing a gate in an area instead of another forester driving to that location at a different time. I also shared the concept of integrating photos with GIS as I learned from ESRI. Having everything on one device is a tremendous convenience. In fact, I believe this idea I had at my previous workplace may have been taken and shared with others. So, it seems like a tremendous coincidence that the smartphone came out around that time or shortly thereafter, which is very similar to my imaginative exploration of a spatially (GPS) enabled, or location-enabled, integrated device. It is strange, but I had so many ideas during this time period that I believe the corporation manufactured a new organization called Forest Technology Group, which used GIS in a consulting capacity, as we were fired or laid off. It is kind of interesting that I was the first to go, considering all the effort, creativity, ideas, and energy I put into a desired future condition. However, I am grateful that I was fired or laid off from a traditional employment corporation, which I have realized functions as part of a broader infinite variabilization strategy, a win-at-all-costs strategy for the traditional economy on Earth associated with big-picture technology, particularly information systems, and possibly more. I also noticed a quote about a road map and planning over the horizon, repeated by President George W. Bush during that time. In fact, I was so shocked that I went to my legislators in their Portland office and told them about the strange coincidence. After all I went through, I realized I never want to work for a traditional employment organization or corporation ever again. However, based on all I have been through, there may be some extraction, exchange, exclusion, roller-coaster-ride conspiracy taking all my energy, ideas, and creativity throughout my lifetime while mainstreaming everything to these organizations or infinite-variable hierarchical structures and the masses. However, I keep having hopeful enthusiasm that things will work out in the best possible way in the future. In fact, I am glad I was fired or laid off because I was able to use my enthusiasm, creativity, ideas, and energy allocation to come up with a holistic desired future condition as a continuous adaptive striving towards a desired future condition positive energy feedback loop, which is a great thing for everyone, everything, everywhere on Earth. I call the idea the University Earth Research Explorers Cycle, with a location-enabled integrated device that uses an idea similar to Be Aware, with all the other functionality of GIS to help people live, learn, explore, adapt, research, discover, invest, experience, and holistically enlighten themselves so we can be mentors, contributors, collaborators, and holistic leaders. It’s for everyone, everything, everywhere, as a holistic, preventative approach. I don’t believe in getting people in trouble or detrimentally impacting anyone. I look forward to allocating energy together with everyone on Earth. Nobody does it better than each of us and all of us together. World without end…. I am tremendously thankful, appreciative, grateful, honored, and humble because of all the people, everyone, everything, everywhere, especially those who helped me learn, especially UVM, School of Environment and Natural Resources, WCSU, ESRI, Umaine, USM, my classes, conferences, presentations, and the opportunity to live, learn, explore, discover, and experience what I have experienced. However, I lost a lot, including my Wife, my friends, etc. I love and care about everyone on Earth but don’t like everyone yet. In the future, I hope to like everyone too.