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Quote for September 13, 2005
“Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they’ve never seen before, something that does not yet exist.” – Rosabeth Moss
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Journal Prompt for September 9, 2005
After much debate and discussion, we chose our Action Project topic this week – the Zero Waste Movement. According to the Ecocycle website: “Zero Waste is all about redesigning products and packaging for durability, reuse and recyclability. Instead of perpetuating our throw-away society, products would be designed using fewer material types that could be easily… Read more »
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Quote for September 9, 2005
Waste Equals Food: “Nature operates according to a system of nutrients and metabolisms in which there is no such thing as waste. A cherry tree makes many blossoms and fruit to (perhaps) germinate and grow. That is why the tree blooms. But the extra blossoms are far from useless. They fall to the ground, decompose,… Read more »
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Quote for September 7, 2005
“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost’s familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road / the… Read more »
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Quote for September 6, 2005
“Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness – constant danger, safe return doubtful – honor and recognition in case of success.” – Sir Ernest Shackleton
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Journal Prompt for September 2, 2005
We talked a lot this week about how change comes about in the world. We talked about technological innovations that have helped humans evolve from hunter-gatherers to living in the information age of modern society. We talked about advances in farming and agriculture, inventions like the automobile and the airplane, and had a great dialog… Read more »
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Quote for September 2, 2005
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Quote for August 31, 2005
“It’s not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out where the strong man stumbled or where the doer of great deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Who strives valiantly, who… Read more »
