{"id":3349,"date":"2008-09-23T08:38:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T08:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2008-09-23T08:38:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T08:38:53","slug":"the_power_of_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3349","title":{"rendered":"The Power of One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I had an opportunity to hear &#8220;her deepness&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?input-form=clusty-simple&#038;v%3Asources=webplus&#038;query=%22sylvia+earle%22\">Sylvia Earle<\/a> speak.   She included this short video in her presentation &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_QzjqOl2N9c\">the Power of One<\/a>&#8220;.<br \/>\nEarle emphasized the opportunities we all have to change the world.   I recalled her talk while visiting with Hal Herron recently.   Herron, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dataplace.org\/area_overview\/index.html?place=x75384&#038;replace_place=0&#038;z=1\">Riverton, Wyoming<\/a> has been adding outdoor art to his home town in an interesting way.<br \/>\nMuseums often create large banners to promote an exhibit.  Herron sought out these banners after a showing is complete.   He pays for shipping to Riverton and places them around the community for all to enjoy.  Fascinating.   He forwarded two photos, seen below:<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/09\/herron2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"346\" border=\"1\" Title=\"Hal Herron has placed art banners around Riverton, Wyoming\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/09\/herron3.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"387\" border=\"1\" Title=\"Art banners collected by Hal Herron in Riverton, Wyoming\"><br \/><Br>Bill Perkin&#8217;s full page New York Times ad in today&#8217;s paper is another illustration of the &#8220;Power of One&#8221;.   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/09\/9232008nyt.jpg\" width=\"642\" height=\"1000\" Border=\"1\" TITLE=\"Bill Perkins full page advertisement in the New York Times Tuesday, September 23, 2008 on the \"New Communists\"\"><br \/><Br>Perkins approach requires a certain size checkbook, of course \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nAll of which reminds me of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twopaths.com\/greatest.htm\">two greatest commandment<\/a>s&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I had an opportunity to hear &#8220;her deepness&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?input-form=clusty-simple&#038;v%3Asources=webplus&#038;query=%22sylvia+earle%22\">Sylvia Earle<\/a> speak.   She included this short video in her presentation &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_QzjqOl2N9c\">the Power of One<\/a>&#8220;.<br \/>\nEarle emphasized the opportunities we all have to change the world.   I recalled her talk while visiting with Hal Herron recently.   Herron, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dataplace.org\/area_overview\/index.html?place=x75384&#038;replace_place=0&#038;z=1\">Riverton, Wyoming<\/a> has been adding outdoor art to his home town in an interesting way.<br \/>\nMuseums often create large banners to promote an exhibit.  Herron sought out these banners after a showing is complete.   He pays for shipping to Riverton and places them around the community for all to enjoy.  Fascinating.   He forwarded two photos, seen below:<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/09\/herron2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"346\" border=\"1\" Title=\"Hal Herron has placed art banners around Riverton, Wyoming\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/09\/herron3.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"387\" border=\"1\" Title=\"Art banners collected by Hal Herron in Riverton, Wyoming\"><br \/><Br>Bill Perkin&#8217;s full page New York Times ad in today&#8217;s paper is another illustration of the &#8220;Power of One&#8221;.   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/09\/9232008nyt.jpg\" width=\"642\" height=\"1000\" Border=\"1\" TITLE=\"Bill Perkins full page advertisement in the New York Times Tuesday, September 23, 2008 on the \"New Communists\"\"><br \/><Br>Perkins approach requires a certain size checkbook, of course \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nAll of which reminds me of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twopaths.com\/greatest.htm\">two greatest commandment<\/a>s&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,39,8,32,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}