[sustran] Greetings from The Commons

[eric.britton at ecoplan.org]

December 22, 1999, The Commons, Paris

Dear Friends,

If you take the front door to The Commons at some point over this holiday
season (via the usual http:// ecoplan.org), you will find our Seasons
Greetings (with a little help from Ghirlandaio, and the Louvre) to all our
friends and collaborators around the planet with whom we have exchanged
ideas, information, work and encouragement over this last year and more.  

Our card this year, like just about everything that happens on The Commons,
is not only entirely free and "off the economy" as we like to say (it cost
us only thought, time and work), but also something that is deeply embedded
in our collective culture and potentially useful in different ways and
through many layers. For those of you who are equipped with RealMedia, for
instance,  you will find some thought-provoking substance behind those few
words that appear on your virtual page. Click around. You will find there a
live BBC broadcast from a war zone where tanks are firing on children, the
Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony for Médecins Sans Frontières
<http://www.msf.org/index.htm> that took place ten days ago in Oslo (the
first five minutes of which will give you a great chance to brush up your
Norwegian), and, more peacefully,  a bit of background on Ghirlandaio and
his work.

So there you have it.  Another millennium behind us, and it appears that
there are still a few things that we have yet to figure out and get
straight.  So  to you and your families, our very best wishes for health and
happiness in the year ahead.  We are going to need all the energy and good
will we can muster.  And we are going to have to do this together. Nobody
else is going to do it for us.

Cordially,

Eric Britton





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