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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Colleagues, these links lead to fabulous resources,
imho.</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Jann</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Dear Friends and Fellow Evolutionaries,</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Greetings in the New Year! Three things this
month:</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><B><FONT color=#ff2900>1. </FONT>What's New </B>on The
Great Story website: <A title=http://thegreatstory.org/new.html
href="http://thegreatstory.org/new.html">http://thegreatstory.org/new.html</A>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">(Parents: we highly recommend the "<A
title=http://solstice-and-equinox.com/elementalbirthdays.html
href="http://solstice-and-equinox.com/elementalbirthdays.html">Elemental
Birthdays</A>" resource!)</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT color=#ff2900><B>2.</B> </FONT>Our awakening to
<B>the moral urgency of climate change</B>, as intergenerational injustice /
intergenerational evil:</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Best short videos and most helpful resources on the
subject: <A title=http://thegreatstory.org/climate.html
href="http://thegreatstory.org/climate.html">http://thegreatstory.org/climate.html</A></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Direct link to our "personal awakening" video on
YouTube: <A title=http://youtu.be/a1HpkCiOaiI
href="http://youtu.be/a1HpkCiOaiI">http://youtu.be/a1HpkCiOaiI</A></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">My HuffPost blog post: <A
title=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-michael-dowd/intergenerational-evil-of_b_2366068.html
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-michael-dowd/intergenerational-evil-of_b_2366068.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-michael-dowd/intergenerational-evil-of_b_2366068.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT color=#ff2900><B>3.</B> </FONT>My dear friend and
mentor <B>David Gershon</B>, co-founder of Empowerment Institute, is <B>one of
the world's foremost authorities on behavior-change, community empowerment, and
large-system transformation</B>. I know this from personal experience, as we
worked closely together in the mid-to-late 1990s. David's work has addressed a
wide diversity of issues:</DIV>
<UL>
<LI style="MARGIN: 0px">low carbon lifestyles
<LI style="MARGIN: 0px">livable neighborhoods
<LI style="MARGIN: 0px">sustainable communities
<LI style="MARGIN: 0px">organizational talent development
<LI style="MARGIN: 0px">corporate social engagement
<LI style="MARGIN: 0px">cultural transformation</LI></UL>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 16px">David is offering a<B> free
teleseminar this Sunday, January 13, 2013 @ 2pm EST / 11am PST</B>: <A
title=http://davidgershonjan2013.eventbrite.co.uk/
href="http://davidgershonjan2013.eventbrite.co.uk/">http://davidgershonjan2013.eventbrite.co.uk</A></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 16px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 16px">This hour-long teleseminar is
appropriate <B>for anyone wishing to make change happen.</B> David presents
<B>strategies and tools for shifting habits, empowering communities, and
transforming large systems</B>. Drawing on his highly acclaimed book <I>Social
Change 2.0</I>, he describes how each of us can step up our ability to make a
difference in the world.</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 16px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">David also introduces his <B>"Masterclass in
Transformative Social Change"</B> that starts on January 27th. (Learn more about
that<SPAN> </SPAN><A
title=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001AAh2gICnjSLOn2bq6hB8lj0Rg3iPSomvPyU0FXZ4baDntryx1AJFtgfvzcqoARCe1D9AyR_Bm1r__uf0cE7Z_wtplpG-KvjT61raV-PyKCgJo3z1NZWNNlAtlQesuQFPOheFpFyxrONZXI-bopNZMQ==
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target=_blank>here</A><SPAN>.) Connie and I will both be on the teleseminar call
and will also be enrolling in David's masterclass.</SPAN></DIV>
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color=#097617><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#097617><SPAN
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><A
title=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001AAh2gICnjSLOn2bq6hB8lj0Rg3iPSomvPyU0FXZ4baDntryx1AJFtgfvzcqoARCe1D9AyR_Bm1rQWQjYdCIVgUmz-1C4OIacPozK5YAX5OaYQXHZX55AbWyEs_1VgaQbUl_MxF8cAEhxEfO6j7oCeFAumtqTIHT8A-SRuyDCxfFqJaiwexg7avDDFmbGhOSy
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a free PDF</A></SPAN> </FONT>of "Reinventing Social Change," the introduction to
the book, <I>Social Change 2.0.</I></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 16px">View a short video by David Gershon
on pushing the envelope as a change agent: <A
title=http://vimeo.com/4417571#at=0
href="http://vimeo.com/4417571#at=0">http://vimeo.com/4417571#at=0</A></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">And here's another short video of David talking about
Social Change 2.0 with Deepak Chopra: <A title=http://youtu.be/wxZgaXbzoXs
href="http://youtu.be/wxZgaXbzoXs">http://youtu.be/wxZgaXbzoXs</A></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">NOTE: As a member of Connie's and my "Evolutionary
Times" email list, if you register for David's Masterclass (which is separate
from the free teleseminar/introduction) you are entitled to a tuition reduction
of $35. Just type<FONT color=#097617> </FONT>"Evolutionary Times"<FONT
color=#097617> </FONT>into the partner organization box. </DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Again, here's the link to</B><B> register for the
free January 13th teleseminar: </B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><A title=http://davidgershonjan2013.eventbrite.co.uk/
href="http://davidgershonjan2013.eventbrite.co.uk/">http://davidgershonjan2013.eventbrite.co.uk</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Wishing everyone a joyful, productive, and fulfilling 2013!</DIV>
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<DIV>Natural blessings,</DIV>
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<DIV>~ Michael and Connie</DIV>
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