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I know its way too small to read but this page out of The Lorax is just brilliant
It says…. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, its not.”
P.S. I scanned it as a big enough file that you can use it as your desktop background. Click here to download the desktop background.
Jason
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1 Joseph // Oct 12, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Whoa!?! I was on here and then a new post jumped up! Neat. I guess that means I was the first one to see it. I already downloaded the image and have the Lorax page as my desktop background.
Thanks
2 paul jacobs // Oct 13, 2007 at 1:49 pm
For anyone who has not read The Lorax, I highly suggest you track down a copy. The story itself is well over 30 years old, yet the message is one we tend to think of as new. I won’t give the story away, but it could be the first chapter in the Green Building Bible.
If only we had listened to Dr Seuss’ message 30 years ago, I wonder how different the world would look today. All the more reason to maintain our determination and not let another 30 years pass before we start making real change in ways we do business.
3 Rich // Oct 15, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Paul,
You are right that its a message that is getting ignored. To often the belief is that we ignored the truth for this long there is no hope. But there has never been you and I deciding to take action. And that is going to be what does it this time around!
4 Jason // Oct 15, 2007 at 1:06 pm
paul/rich: couldn’t agree more. I think for a long time, the “you and I-type” action was stymied by several factors: an overly-pessimistic view of the future that concluded, “we’re doomed already” which translates into cynicism and apathy; not enough solid, concrete examples–micro and macro–of actions that can be taken beyond shouting, and some degree of eco-paralysis (where do I start? where do I stop?). At present, you-and-I type actions are being validated everywhere you look (compared with 10 years ago)–I’ve observed a growing collective sense that starting somewhere is better than doing nothing…that it matters and that change for the better can happen.
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