Bill Watson - Building Intentional Community, encouraging people to return to the land

With your Host Dennis Frank, standing in for Tim LynchNow that we're in transition from business as usual to the sustainable society, how do we work together to ease that transition and what should our priorities be?  Dennis Frank answers these questions in this week's Green Planet broadcast.He profiles 7 good news green stories from the past couple of years, then with his guest Bill Watson he discusses an intentional community development plan for a Coromandel site that is being designed to serve as a model for regenerating local economies in rural areas.He advocates that after a quarter century of talking up the paradigm shift, it's now time to take collective action to make it happen. He suggests forming a genuinely alternative political movement to drive that process and outlines the design features & principles that such a movement must incorporate in order to be successful.People see our global situation as threatened by financial collapse, climate change, destruction of ecosystems by the economy, peak oil, corporate control & corruption, etc - which are all part of business as usual. What's the alternative?  Working together in a better way.  Tune in to find out how!