It has been an amazing trip to the Twin Cities, a welcoming community of people deeply interested in the issues in Twelve by Twelve. I’ve given six talks here in six days: at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute, Common Good Books, the Unitarian Unity Church, a fundraiser for Round Earth Media, and a sustainable development class and the EnviroThursday lecture at Macalester College.

I am learning a lot from each group about other initiatives going on in these communities – and it is in turn inspiring me to see how our fellow Americans are working in their own ways, in a sense fulfilling their own 12×12 visions, as we speak.