Why Groups

It's a huge leap to think beyond that personal solution, even when people are politically conscious in other ways. It seems more troublesome to try to work it out with others, so the daydream lingers: "...maybe we can just live and work peacefully by ourselves..." But then we've seen people find out they can't make a living by themselves. Things change, and in the case of agriculture, the work of producing is what people want to do and is very intense, so the marketing effort is burdensome. Plus the fact is: we need to think about the infrastructure (i.e. the energy grid and the food distribution system) which affects everyone. We can run from the cities but there will be blowback from urban crises. People working toward a more sustainable approach are often receptive to doing so in groups, but the pull to privatized solutions is intense. We now work with several groups, some more successful than others, including a timber owners' cooperative and a solar energy buyer's club. The timber coop uses some older Group Accounting managed software that was built on JotSpot, which is now migrating to Google Sites. The solar energy buyers' club may use Group Accounting software next year.