The Story of Change: Why citizens, not shoppers, hold the key to a better world

Annie Leonard's "Story of Change": Shopping Alone Won't Save the World (Video)

ecouterre.com 20 Jul '12, 4pm

The Story of Change: Why citizens, not shoppers, hold the key to a better world

Second, the people who pushed for these changes didn’t try to do it alone. They worked together until the problem was solved. And finally, she says, these movements succeeded in creating change because they turned their big idea and commitment to work together into action. “We’ve got the big idea and the commitment,” Leonard adds. “We just haven’t turned it all into massive action yet. And this is our only missing piece. So let’s do it.”

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