Moving Forward

Last night a group of friends and I met with our state representative to talk about environmental and social issues.  It was a very good discussion and eventually we arrived at the topic of how do we (all of us) in our respective roles stimulate a green economy.  We had noticed that the US senate had just set up a subcommittee on green jobs and we openly wondered how we could get one of those on the state or regional level.  Interestingly, the four of us there represented the governmental, business, and non-profit sectors which each have different roles in this process.  A lot of good ideas were floated but we all agreed that we needed some sort of vision to move forward and then a commitment to implement that vision.  We will be meeting again with a facilitator to help us develop that vision which we can then float to the public.

All of the above made us wonder what others were doing in their areas to transition from our current economic state to a better, greener one.  We are interested in ideas and actions....