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From the ‘Alliance for Climate Protection‘
Video – Black Balloons http://www.climateprotect.org/ah12
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I haven’t had an entry for a little while, summer vacation, then back to work at the school district and beginning of the year busy-ness! Yesterday I began on a new path, that of earning my Masters Degree. I am attending Prescott College and while my Masters is in the field of Professional Development (education), PC is renowned for its environmental awareness and consciousness. So as I am working through Orientation and Colloquium week, I seek ways to marry my environmental interests with my adult ed interests. They seem rather similar and suited, but I cannot see it with clarity just yet.
Today I sat with amazingly brilliant young people who are very motivated to save this planet for whoever they can save it for. There are amazing ideas and challenges coming from this group. They are thinking in important and critical ways and we must all nurture them, for they can rock this planet!
As I joined a discussion on sustainable communities as a way to eliminate poverty, while I did not get clarity of meaning from the presenter, I began to understand sustainable in ways beyond my solar powered, wind-powered, straw bale personal experience. Amazing young people are looking at bigger pictures than I thought possible 10 years ago. They will change communities and the culture of thought that informs the development and value choices of those communities.
So my challenge to you is this – Simply observe your choices, tried to be informed in how your small step may have a large impact. There are people working on big solutions – sustainiable cities, solar power on top of building s in NYC. There are people working on value systems and politics and on how we perceive ourselves and how the environment around us causes us to feel one way or another. There are big answers coming, but not all of us will create them or locate them or prove them or understand them.
Yesterday morning I got a cup of water at PC, today I still have and am using and reusing that cup. It’s in the car right now, but in the morning can go back in my sac. My small choice, an invisible difference, but if you do it and you get someone else to do it….maybe??
Today someone quoted ‘Horton Hears a Who’ and it bears repeating – “a persons a person no matter how small”
Here’s my spin:
Positive change is positive change no matter how small
