Groundwork is a Boulder non-profit working to create positive shifts in local culture to climate change. Cultures are comprised of all the ways we choose to structure our lives and interact with the world around us. When we shift our environment, we change our culture.

If you're looking for our public website, it's here: www.layinggroundwork.org

Past models had failed to produce change and get done basic environmental tasks. It's worth experimenting with something new. Our committee is a well-rounded, thoughtful, caring group who meets regularly and serve as a think tank and advisory committee that launches local environmental activism projects.

The EAC sinks its teeth into interesting problems on all scales that nobody else seems to be working on. Individual members take charge of projects and report on a regular basis back to the committee. The committee workshops ideas and challenges, giving individual members a structure for support and accountability as they work towards meaningful change.

Projects move through the committee in four stages, with individual members acting as custodians to move projects forward.

1. Proposal & Initial Discussion: Individual members bring well-formed project ideas to committee meetings for a 2-5 minute pitch. As time allows, the committee will discuss the potential for experimentation with the idea, bringing up potential impacts, leverage points, challenges, and routes to take. The goal of this initial discussion is to create overarching goals for the project, to define a strategy to move forward, and to outline needs for research and materials as the project moves towards experimentation.
2. Research & Material Generation: The project custodian oversees needs for research and written materials. This phase is generating everything that we will need to be informed and present ourselves in a legitimate way during the experimentation phase.
3. Experimentation: This phase is a small-scale implementation, testing the ground with our chosen strategy and targeting specific leverage points. The goal is to learn from mistakes and build momentum that can be continued as the project grows. Experimentation can take several forms, including starting small and getting stakeholders to sign on, or a small-scale implementation of a project within a contained community.
4. Full Implementation: Building on the momentum and lessons learned in experimentation, we roll out projects for full implementation in the broader community. The project would leave the EAC and be taken over by Groundwork, another non-profit, or a citizens' group.

You can get involved in several ways.

1. Attend meetings. Our momentum depends on having a sizable group of well-informed people at meetings to discuss projects and bring forward ideas.
2. Research. Our projects depend on a solid foundation of research. This takes time, and we're always looking for people to take on research tasks.
3. Contact. Our community only grows from caring and primed individuals making themselves available to the greater good. Please email us: max@layinggroundwork.org

Our monthly meetings have been postponed due to the Coronavirus. Please practice social distancing and spiritual hygiene in the meantime, and we will all reconvene when it is safe. Our meeting place will also update, so stay tuned.