Community Solutions: Seeking local answers to a global issue

…The use of oil permeates the fabric of American life. It fuels our transportation, heats our homes and businesses, provides us with plastics, fertilizers, pesticides and helps puts food on the table. If the oil supply dries up, what does that mean for our way of life? Grassroots groups across the country are calling for relocalization as a way to help secure the things that are essential to our daily lives

What can we do?

Interested citizens can band together and take actions in their towns. Such grassroots groups are springing up all over the country, and are involved in everything from studying ways to reduce energy usage to teaching people agricultural skills that have been lost to time. There are more than 10 relocalization groups in New England, among them at least four in Massachusetts