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"To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds.  And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders, nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect.  For the world has changed, and we must change with it." President Barack Hussein Obama, Inaugural Address <ref>[http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/inaugural-address/ The White House], January 2009</ref>


"Good governance and sound public management are preconditions for the implementation of [[sustainable development]] policies. These preconditions include efforts to ensure an ethical and more transparent government process, as well as decision-making practices “sufficiently open to citizens participation”. OECD <ref>Improving Policy Coherence and Integration for  Sustainable Development  - A Checklist  2002  [http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/61/19/2763153.pdf] (PDF file) </ref> / [[Community involvement]]
"Good governance and sound public management are preconditions for the implementation of [[sustainable development]] policies. These preconditions include efforts to ensure an ethical and more transparent government process, as well as decision-making practices “sufficiently open to citizens participation”. OECD <ref>Improving Policy Coherence and Integration for  Sustainable Development  - A Checklist  2002  [http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/61/19/2763153.pdf] (PDF file) </ref> / [[Community involvement]]

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"We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are." Anais Nin


"There are many ways to be poor, but in today's world not having the right kind of information represents a certain kind of poverty. As long as outsiders decide what is important and are in a position to ask all of the questions, we will never be able to solve our own problems. Without information we are nothing at all and have no power to understand things or to change our life. If Inuit society is to develop we must be able to collect and use information according to our own terms." A Nunavik Inuk

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"To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders, nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it." President Barack Hussein Obama, Inaugural Address [1]


"Good governance and sound public management are preconditions for the implementation of sustainable development policies. These preconditions include efforts to ensure an ethical and more transparent government process, as well as decision-making practices “sufficiently open to citizens participation”. OECD [2] / Community involvement


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There resides in all populations a "mass of sense lying in a dormant state - which good government should quietly harness." Tom Paine [3]


"There is an increasing need to democratise the governance of science and technology, ensuring that it serves the public good rather than narrow economic interests." Dr Michel Pimbert, director of IIED's sustainable agriculture, biodiversity and livelihoods programme. [4] / Food activism


"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." Plato


"Humans are social beings, so it is little surprise that good relationships are one of the most important ingredients for a high quality of life." Robert Putnam

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"...global IS the new local. Local meaning we really have reached the point — when considering shared assets like the atmosphere — that we’re all in the same neighborhood on a very small planet?" Andrew C. Revkin [5]


"When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot." Rabbi Shlomo Riskin (Feb. 1998)


"In too many countries and internationally, we still don't have governing systems and institutions that are accountable, participatory, consensus oriented, transparent, equitable and follow the rule of law."


"We don't need more walls of separation between nations and peoples. We know they can't protect us from global challenges like AIDS or terrorism or global warming. We need instead, more connections, more bridges of understanding and shared responsibility."

Mary Robinson


"When I fed the poor they called me a saint. When I asked why they were poor they called me a communist." Archbishop Oscar Romero


"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." Arundhati Roy, Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 27, 2003

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"If you have time to chatter
Read books.
If you have time to read
Walk into mountain, desert and ocean.
If you have time to walk
Sing songs and dance.
If you have time to dance
Sit quietly, you Happy Lucky Idiot."
Nanao Sakaki


"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean" Ryunosuke Satoro


"Teach your children. What we have taught our children: that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

This we know. The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth. This we know. All things are connected Like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected.

Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves."
Chief Seattle


"But media is actually a triathlon, it 's three different events. People like to consume, but they also like to produce, and they like to share." [6]


"We're going to look at every place that a reader or a listener or a viewer or a user has been locked out, has been served up passive or a fixed or a canned experience, and ask ourselves, "If we carve out a little bit of the cognitive surplus and deploy it here, could we make a good thing happen?" And I'm betting the answer is yes." [7]

Clay Shirky


"In giving food to other beings and species we maintain conditions for our own food security. In feeding earthworms we feed ourselves. In feeding cows, we feed the soil, and in providing food for the soil, we provide food for humans. This worldview of abundance is based on sharing and on a deep awareness of humans as members of the earth family. This awareness that in impoverishing other beings, we impoverish ourselves and in nourishing other beings, we nourish ourselves is the real basis of sustainability." Vandana Shiva


"Act Globally, not just Locally" The Simultaneous Policy


"A shared vision is not an idea. It is not even an important idea such as freedom. It is, rather, a force in people's hearts, a force of impressive power. It may be inspired by an idea, but once it goes further -- if it is compelling enough to acquire the support of more than one person -- then it is no longer an abstraction. It is palpable. People begin to see it as if it exists. Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision." Peter Senge


"Reciprocity is key to the power of networks, the alchemy of mutual give and take over time turning to a golden trust . . ." Karen Stephenson



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  1. The White House, January 2009
  2. Improving Policy Coherence and Integration for Sustainable Development - A Checklist 2002 [1] (PDF file)
  3. Guardian review of Hilary Wainwright’s book Reclaim the State: Adventures in Popular Democracy, July 2003
  4. IIED
  5. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/earth-day-the-sequel/ Dot Earth blog], April 21, 2010
  6. Clay Shirky at a Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008.
  7. Clay Shirky at a Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008.
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