Think Globally, Act Locally
- Think Globally, Act Locally
Think Globally, Act Locally was reportedly coined by
David Brower , founder ofFriends of the Earth , as the slogan for FOE when it was founded in 1969, although others have stated it was originated byRene Dubos as an advisor to theUnited Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. Canadian futurist Frank Feather also chaired a conference called "Thinking Globally, Acting Locally" in 1979. [Keyes, Ralph. "The Quote Verifier". Simon & Schuster. New York, NY 2006. ISBN 9780312340049.] Others suggested that this phrase is coined by Frenchtheologian Jacques Ellul . Americanactivist Saul Alinsky is also sometimes credited. [cite book
last = Barash
first = David
title = Peace and Conflict
publisher =Sage Publications
pages: pp. 547
year = 2002
isbn = 9780761925071 ]Others later converged "global" and "local" into the single word "
glocal ," a term used by several companies (notablySony Corporation and other major Japanese multinationals) in their advertising and branding strategies in the 1980s and 1990s.The phrase is an in-joke among
mathematician s, as it is often used in situations where the global structure of an object (e.g., amanifold , aDiophantine equation , or a group) can be inferred from the local structure. (SeeHasse principle for a detailed description of one such example.)Sources
*Eblen, R. A. and Eblen W. (1994) "The Encyclopedia of the Environment", Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, ISBN 0395550416 ISBN 978-0395550410
External links
http://www.scribeworx.net/TGALINT.pdf
* [http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/20001107132336.html FoE obituary citing the coining of the term]
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