MIMIC THIS! When you get invited to events 3000 miles away (or 20 of them just across town), use COPY & PASTE with the really interesting events to seed your own community's plans for similar events. Why start from scratch.... Beg, borrow and mimic! More....
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Amory Lovins' book Natural Capitalism is available for free on line. I can't put my hand on the link at the moment. I think he has the best model for a sustainable economy that doesn't require a wholesale paradigm change, i.e., it's a free market capitalism (I mean a real one).