INVITATION TO SMALL TOWNS AND CITIES

If you know of a small town or city that is currently organizing to make itself more sustainable, please let me know.

Lanny

The Little Town That Could...

MOVING TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY WILL SAVE DEMOCRACY~~

Democracy today is but a shadow of a shadow. It is being stripped of many of the trappings -- nay, the necessities -- that we have come to associate with "liberty and justice for all."

Things will get better or worse; they cannot stay the same.

For me, the hope lies in small towns and cities all around the globe -- towns and cities that move, within themselves, from a status quo that reflects the old paradigm of "the American Dream" to a new paradigm of sustainability, stewardship of our commons, and true democracy as felt, desired, and achieved by each community wherever it is.

Why do I focus on small towns and cities? Because the individual is too small today to do anything to change the System, and big government in state capitals and in Washington, D.C., are too corrupt and distant and caught in the juggernaut grasp of big money to even care about the little guys, the masses, the People who live in small towns and cities. But when a small town or city raises its collective voice, when it shifts significantly from the old paradigm to the new, when it declares itself mad as hell and not going to take it anymore -- the big boys (and a few sell-out women) will listen. They will have to. Because the media will cover it; the media will not be able to avoid it, no matter how hard they try...or are directed to by their owners.

Isn't it disgusting that one of the biggest weapons manufacturers owns one of the biggest mainstream media networks: General Electric owns, controls, and determines the information broadcast by NBC? Simply disgusting.

So when communities coalesce, as mine is doing now, in order to move concertedly towards a more localized, sustainable future that they create for themselves, the world will take notice.

And it's this "notice' that will force life once again into the revolution that must be completed: that of democracy, of, by, and for.

I was born on the Fourth of July.

L