Grass-roots change
Even with my recent focus on reputation, I haven’t lost my focus on some of the larger issues I was interested in at the beginning of the year. Those issues are absolutely relevant to reputation, particularly bottom-up change. The thing I like about reputation is the ability for everyone to participate—reputation is derived from the choices we make and our actions. Harnessing that ability for individual action on a broad scale could have huge implications for climate change.
Al Gore has a new movie coming out on May 24, and in a recent interview on Grist.org he had the following to say:
What everyone does agree on is the need for a bottom-up appeal to the American masses rather than a top-down campaign focused on leaders in Washington. “The momentum right now has to come from the grass roots,” Gore says. “I don’t think it’s gonna come from Washington. In fact, I know it won’t come from Washington.”
The difficult question has always been: what will it be that gets everyone excited enough to participate and how can they harness that excitement and engage in the process? I’m not saying that reputation is a panacea, but it certainly has some interesting possibilities as a component in larger solutions.