Visionary is one of our Power Words here at I’m Organic ™. Last week I bought a Visionary T-shirt for an emerging organic friend. I think he is visionary. And I wanted to empower him to embrace the organic lifestyle. To me he is someone with unusual powers of foresight. He can see how the world connects together, how systems interplay, and how our choices impact the future we share together.

Visionary seems to fit an organic person very well. If I may boldly generalize, many people who have chosen an organic lifestyle understand how the world connects together. We recognize that something happening over there — pesticides in fields — affects us over here — unhealthy people.

We understand how systems interplay—that regulations on organic products interplay with marketing and media around the organic lifestyle creating upward spirals of more and more possibility for organic goods in our world. And more of us buying organic goods means a better environment and the more likely that organic farming practices will become more and more affordable. Making it easier for more and more of us to be organic people.

And we definitely understand how our choices impact the future we share together. Whether that is the future of my body cleansed of pesticides and thus more likely to live better, healthier, and longer; or of our interactions together in an environment that has not been destroyed by contaminants.

Can you imagine a future world where we all eat organic, sleep on organic sheets, use organic towels, wear organic clothes, and live the organic lifestyle in a way that helps to improve our world? Maybe you are visionary too.