Maybe this is how it will happen.
In the absence of leadership on energy policy and global warming from our elected leaders, individual communities will turn inward, to their own resources of creativity, camaraderie and intelligence, and begin to right the ship. Town by town, city by city, they will put their shoulders to the wheel and make minuscule but measurable corrections of course.
Something like this is happening in Woodstock, and it is heartening to see.On the night of Earth Day, a new community group called Sustainable Woodstock (the name says it all), organized a celebration, and a sort of coming out party for the group, at the Town Hall Theater. The house was packed with young and old, and everyone was buzzing with curiosity, a rare energy for an otherwise sedate citizenry. I couldn’t stay for the whole show (our six-month old daughter was getting a little too vocal), but I liked what I saw.
This article appears in Apr 23-29, 2008.
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