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Hands up for WWWe!
When the first WWWe photograph was taken at Schumacher College, a number of people in the crowd were wanting to make a 'W' with their hands. Different contortions of fingers and thumbs emerged. When I looked at the resulting photograph, the strongest and simplest seemed to be two flat palms facing forward with thumbs meeting in the middle. I tried it out and it felt good. The next day at Totnes railway station, I asked Bill McKibben what he thought. He tried it out and agreed. I took a photograph then he boarded the train; the start of his journey back to Washington for the big gathering the next day. And so the WWWe 'W' was born.