<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">My resolution is simple. Each week this year I will do at least one thing to further the making of a different world. It might be very simple, or small. Sometimes it might be something larger. In some ways, it's more a matter of breaking old habits, and creating new ones. It will be in despite of having no time, etc etc. Each week at least one thing that contributes to making things happen, differently. </span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Extra Rule: I can't just count what I was doing anyway. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Small explanation: Last year, for the first time, I taught a course on Media and Climate Change. We were all, often, discussing what to do, as one does. A lot of solutions are the big ones—and they're necessary. But it's hard to access those, in practice. So we often accepted that what needed to happen to deal with climate was a lot, but that a lot of people doing something, even small things, was better than a few people doing a lot, while the rest were too busy (interestingly, the students often said that their biggest problem when it came to climate change was that the world the lived in just didn't give them time. This is true.). And of course, the hope then is that things would snowball. The other advantage of this is that lots of different things will be going on. Then maybe new things will emerge from all that rich soup of goings on. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Andrew</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 January 2017 at 11:32, Andrew Murphie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.murphie@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.murphie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">My resolution is simple. Each week this year I will do at least one thing to further the making of a different world. It might be very simple, or small. Sometimes it might be something larger. In some ways, it's more a matter of breaking old habits, and creating new ones. It will be in despite of having no time, etc etc. Each week at least one thing that contributes to making things happen, differently. <div><br></div><div>Extra Rule: I can't just count what I was doing anyway. </div><div><br></div><div>Small explanation: Last year, for the first time, I taught a course on Media and Climate Change. We were all, often, discussing what to do, as one does. A lot of solutions are the big ones—and they're necessary. But it's hard to access those, in practice. So we often accepted that what needed to happen to deal with climate was a lot, but that a lot of people doing something, even small things, was better than a few people doing a lot, while the rest were too busy (interestingly, the students often said that their biggest problem when it came to climate change was that the world the lived in just didn't give them time. This is true.). And of course, the hope then is that things would snowball. The other advantage of this is that lots of different things will be going on. Then maybe new things will emerge from all that rich soup of goings on. </div><div><br></div><div>Andrew<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_2116022718997582318gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma">***</font><br><br><div>"A traveller, who has lost his way, should not ask, Where am I? What he really wants to know is, Where are the other places" - Alfred North Whitehead</div><div><br></div><div>"Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society that you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? 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