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Thanks very much Doug for adding these perspectives. Your call-to-action for museums “to become creative and catalytic forces in how the living culture adapts to our dramatically and constantly transforming world” hits the proverbial nail on the head. I look back on Liberty Science Center’s course of action in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 and its related decision to premiere ‘1,000 Years of Islamic Science Rediscovered’ from the United Arab Emirates upon reopening from its 2005-07 expansion-and-renewal project — the seeds for which were sown in the fall of 2001 — as enduring examples. I hope you will continue to voice your crucial view that ‘sustainability’ thinking by museums needs to start locally and extend globally.. Indeed in this increasingly troubled world, the ‘relevance’ of museums to the greater good surely hinges on this ecologically-minded orientation.