Optimism

"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours."

Noam Chomsky

(via Swissmiss, via ap-rc)

New Year´s resolution

We are welcoming 2009 and the word crisis appears in every conversation about the new year. In this blog, we refuse to start the year in such a pessimistic way and prefer to think about 2009 as a year of opportunities. The opportunity to live a simpler and more responsible life.
And so, our New Year resolution for 2009 is to accept responsibility and think about the consequences of every single action and decision we take, however small it seems at the time. It´s the first step to start saving the world.

Propósitos de Año nuevo

Le damos la bienvenida al 2009, e, inevitablemente, la palabra crisis aparece en cada conversación sobre el nuevo año. En este blog, nos negamos a empezar el año de manera tan negativa, y nos planteamos el 2009 como un año de oportunidades, y muy especialmente, la oportunidad de aprender a vivir de manera más simple y más responsable.
Nuestra resolución para el 2009 es precisamente aceptar responsabilidad y pensar en las consecuencias de cada una de las acciones y decisiones que tomamos, por pequeñas que parezcan. Es el primer paso para salvar el mundo.