Something I found really encouraging was that there were few real “Shockers”, but your comments did move things out of the clouds and into conscious discussion. Regardless of the varied backgrounds of you whom I asked for comment and those at the meeting, the observations were largely met as something familiar, perhaps not really considered, but something we had each seen in one form or another personally. More of an “Oh yea, I know what you mean, that’s so true.” as opposed to “Really?!?” . That tells me we are on the right track and pluged into the current realities.

One thing I find to be great about the organization is that we have a broad base of career expertise reflected in our members, so whether the concern is on industrial practices or education, parenting, mobilizing opposition, communicating, or political lobbying, there are presenters with professional experience in those areas. Much of the discussion centered on how to more effectively get that human expertise to where it would do the most good, most quickly. How do we let people do-what-they-do-well for the cause of preserving life on this planet in a unified, efficient way? The systems of the organization are now under scrutiny for how to best accomplish this.

As an aside, something else that I will mention because I find it really amazing. This is a volunteer organization where people are expected to give some of their personal time to the cause of promoting sustainability. Of the hundreds of presenters I have met personally over the last 3 years, in addition to their personal time, regardless of what they did before, virtually every individual has either left their professions, or modified their professional pursuits to dedicate themselves more fully to this issue. I mention it because it is something I also notice in all of you. I just want to draw attention to this fact for a second because I think that is truly remarkable and reflective of the changes taking place all around us that we do not often take time to appreciate.

In the next month or so we expect to hear how things might start to coalesce between TCP and our sister organizations Repower America, The Alliance for Climate Protection, and We Can Solve It and how we might more accurately define the roles that we can play in implementing sustainable practices.

Thank you sincerely for your comments, and for paying attention to this issue and how people around you are responding to it. If you think of anything else please feel free to contact me any time I welcome your valuable input.

Be well