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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 ^[1]

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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

"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." ^[2]

"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." ^[3]

Clay Shirky

"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