Healthy communities and healthy individuals stimulate and reinforce each other. Community citizens provide themselves a healthy and safe environment. Crime, violence, homelessness, and drug addiction are vanishing in the face of the social vaccine of self-esteem. Californians have developed healthy, effective, and nonviolent ways of resolving conflicts and disputes. As key and influential components of communities, the media practice their commitment to feature and model responsible behavior and to help build self-esteem among all the members of their communities.
Businesses operate with the joint goals of productivity and social responsibility.
They seek healthy balances among human, economic, and environmental issues. California industry values the environment and actively seeks nonpolluting alternatives. The workplace environment and training programs nurture self-esteem. This has resulted in higher productivity and markedly reduced absenteeism. The California economy is competitive, leading the Pacific Rim developments.