A bunch of friends got together to think about how to change the world from a garage in Westown. Over three months of meeting once a week, we looked for inspiration: shared music, watched short videos by inspirational thinkers and activists, spoke about what matters to us and learned to listen deeply. We thought together about the world we want to live in and what each of us could do to create that world starting here and now. We learned about systemic change, cradle to cradle design, social innovation, open source technology and thought together about self interest and morality. We have applied these learnings in our own change projects.
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The most important contribution any of us can make now is not to solve any particular problem, no matter how urgent energy or environmental or financial regulation is. What we must do now is increase the proportion of humans who know that they can cause change. And who, like smart white blood cells coursing through society, will stop with pleasure whenever they see that something is stuck or that an opportunity is ripe to be seized.
— from “Everyone a Changemaker”, by Bill Drayton (2006)
