Mary Rose, check out the "Brave New Planet: Imagining Ecological Communities" conference in Claremont on Oct 27-30. I'm doing a workshop. McKibben keynoting and hanging around for group sessions, David Orr as well and John Cobb convening, speaking and workshopping.

Greetings dear Mary Rose,

Shiloh here, checking in now submitted and approved in the network here :) Would love to follow up and grow our connection together as well as weave wonder around Holacracy in the movement. 

Sending sincere well wishes to you,

SHiloh ann

I too am a senior living on a small, fixed income. My only source of heat here in Central Pennsylvania is a wood stove on which I cook all winter. I dry the green beans along with pepper, tomatoes, fruits, etc.. Although it is too damp here to completely dry foods, they can be partially dried on a sunny, breezy day and then finished in the dryer, thereby taking very little energy.The dried shell beans, I pour boiling water over and soak overnight. They will then cook faster.

What is J. Hull's number?

BTW, Mary, yes I'm familiar with the Blessed Unrest video. Paul is a friend who I see every once in a while. There is an excellent keynote of his here:
www.greenbuildexpo.org/Video/archived-videos/2007-videos/Paul-Hawken.aspx
in which he talks about all this and gives a great history of the whole movement. His keynote begins about 2/3 of the way through. Should you have any interest in seeing it, about ten or fifteen minutes into this video (which is from the 2007 Greenbuild Conference in Chicago) you can see me receive the 2007 USGBC Leadership Award for Organizational Excellence.
It's also worth listening to the Youth Speaks readings at the beginning and end of this video as well. There's not much else worth listening to until Paul begins his talk. I've heard several other talks of his over the past few years with similar content and this is a pretty good one for the frame of reference he brings. And it includes Blessed Unrest and that clip of all those organizations. Funny to realize that at least a couple of my cards were among those that triggered his wondering about how many of us there are...
Blessings,
David

Thanks Mary and Les. As I have time I will explore and post information, links, etc. Lots I'm juggling at the moment, with finally some paid work with local governments helping analyze and make recommendations about greening their building and development codes and standards, plus an upcoming keynote in Colorado and an EPA-sponsored webinar for local, state and tribal government officials on greening codes.
David

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Hi Mary Rose. The best way to use groups begins with your having 5 or 20 or 50 people who are interested in Prison Reform and in need of a place where they can dialogue their interests. You are the one who invites them through phone calls, email, and other personal contacts. As they go about their discussions and others here on this site see the onging activity, the group grows.