b'It would be magical were hordes of us to gather and march to the sea, or to the Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, Iowa, not to make salt, nor to throw off the yoke of capitalism or socialism, but to proclaim our commitment to conscientious investing, putting biodiversity and community resilience at center stage. Actually, that would not be magical. That would be beyond magical. Healing pulses of capital and peaceable mobilizations of people. The acceleration that characterizes our epoch has yielded a cornu-copia of goods and breakthroughs, but it has also turned up the heat and turned up the volume to levels that are causing extreme psycho-logical and spiritual duress. As beneficial as economic growth has been in the macro, the cultural and ecological imbalances that it has created have reached crisis proportions. Waves of countervailing or complementary deceleration, decentralization and disintermediation are essential. Healing pulses of capital and peaceable mobilizations of people. At a conference a few years ago, the remarks of Joel Salatin, the beyond organic grass farmer, and Gary Hirshberg, the chairman and former CEO of Stonyfield Farm, framed the question: Is what were after best pursued at industrial scale, via corporate efficiency, or via grassroots action and the energy of a movement? Joel argued that organics is and must always remain a grassroots movement, protecting diversity against corporate overreach and commodification. Gary argued that the m word is a distraction from work that must be undertaken at an industrial scale to get toxics out of the food chain within a generation. 9'