"Remember that saying, 'Think globally, act locally'?" says Michael Woo, a former Los Angeles city councilman who is now an adjunct professor in the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development. "When I first heard that now-famous phrase"?uttered by Rene Dubos at a United Nations Conference on the Environment in 1972?"I didn't think it applied to me, because I didn't plan to work overseas and didn't think that international issues would be relevant to my career."