theoretical goals and support your program. And I think that there are more peer-to-peer arrangements arising now than in the last 70 years in the U.S. Here in the rural Counties of southern Washington state and northern Oregon, there are some movements with real potential: Gorge Grown Food and related Co-ops, Friends of the Food Bank, RiverHOURS currency. However, I'm not seeing anything approaching some kind of threshold energy level for these projects in the wider context. Reenforce my hopes, please, and recount the real-world successes - or the incipient, but 'concrete' building blocks.

paul spencer