Talk:Think Globally, Act Locally

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Eblen, R. A. and Eblen W. (1994) The Encyclopedia of the Environment Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. cites Rene Dubos as an author of a maxim. See http://capita.wustl.edu/ME567_Informatics/concepts/global.html

Please sign your posts. This claim isn't supported by Frank Feather who claims he invented the phrase. Maustrauser 10:55, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

"If I testify for myself my testimony is not true". Eblen and Eblen is a third party testimony while Feather authorship is supported by his own organization. Ammosov

Comment Is this even worth a mention in wiki? surely once we figure out who actually coined the term we could merge it with their entry. Librarianofages 02:51, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

The phrase "Think globally, but act locally" was coined by the French theologian Jacques Ellul, actually. The reference to Brower's obit does not support at all the idea that he thought up the phrase. User:tb

In which publication?

In the context of the current environment, what does it mean to think and act globally and locally? Choose produce and products from within a radius of 100 miles? Your thoughts would be appreciated for a research project.

My first encounter with the term "Think global act local" was in an environmental context (the Rio Summit in 1992) in connection with Local Agenda 21.

With the "ly"s - “Think globally; act locally. ” - it has been attributed to Buckminster Fuller (e.g. at mindprod quotes), but there seem to be several vague references to the term - there seems to be no uniquely identifiable source for this statement, source not known, etc.

So, keep digging :-).

Actually, the phrase "Think Global, Act Local" is one of the sayings of Sir Patrick Geddes, from his book Cities in Evolution in 1915. See http://www.luath.co.uk/acatalog/ThinkGlobalActLocal.html Helpfully, the Wikipedia entry for Geddes doesn't mention it. I am by no means a Geddes expert so don't really want to edit either this page or the Geddes page, but I will put a mention on its discussion page too to see if anyone who knows more about the significance feels up to the task. Ewan carmichael (talk) 18:41, 2 June 2008 (UTC)