Last night I went to an initial Transition Towns meeting in a nearby town of 10,000.
Transition Towns is a loosely organized movement to help local communities build a vision that helps it respond to a triad of crises: peak oil, climate chaos, and economic disruption. Begun in 2006, there are now hundreds of localized Transition Town groups actively thinking about the next ten to twenty years, and how to build in resilience by building community.
This may sound boring, but it's kind of revolutionary.