Challenges We Face

1. Apathy: Getting people to take ownership of the situation and not wait for some “Magic Solution”.
2. Effectiveness: Continuing to be productive through the times when few people will want to join us.
3. Discouragement: Overcoming tendencies toward fatalism, pessimism, cynicism and despair while still maintaining realism.
4. Suspicion: Countering what will be largely viewed as a counter-cultural and possibly even “subversive” movement.
5. Autonomy: building small, local, sustainable social systems in the context of a world that is tearing such systems apart in an ongoing effort to globalize.
6. Vision: Maintaining a long-term view while trying to survive from day to day.