By now, "Think Globally, Act Locally" sounds like a quaint cliche, but the basic idea remains important. Today, of course, the very distinction between local and global is becoming hazy.

That phrase was coined I believe in the late 80s or early 90s -prior to the cell phone and internet age. Still, everyone does belong to some kind of local community, however vaguely conceived, and is also connected to the wider world.

The idea of local community is even a little hard to formulate in the Hudson Valley region, an area composed of several counties and many towns and small cities. It also has many part time residents, such as students and those with summer or second homes. Some residents, especially those native to the area, are more likely to identify strongly with the town or city of their birth. Others, such as myself, have a more general notion of the "Hudson Valley" as being a region of connected towns.

However you look at it, there is no longer any doubt that local and global concerns are hard to separate. Whether you are thinking of politics, economics or the arts, what impacts the world impacts the region and vice versa. This is especially true when we are focused on cultural or societal "visions" -projects meant to bring about change, transformation or solve problems.

So we have a Global Visions web site that links up with our Hudson Valley Visions site. These are both, in turn, connected to a wider ring of sites, such as Liminal Worlds. The cool thing about the internet is that it makes all these distinctions merely a click away.

Of course, there is also an illusory quality about all this as well --reality is seldom as simple as surfing the internet. However, one of the goals of these "vision" sites is to create realities that are almost as fluid as our imaginations can conceive.

Global Visions

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