David Cobb agrees: work at both the “macro” level and the “micro” level

Toward the greening of our society we need to be effectuating social change at both the “macro” level (legislation and governmental policy) and the “micro” level (building the new world within the shell of the old via revitalization of local community life).

I don’t often see that perspective explicitly promoted, but here’s a podcast episode which does just that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3bKXAFSfyw

David Cobb was the Green Party presidential candidate in 2004 and then campaign manager for the Jill Stein for President campaign in 2016.

Daniel Greenberg founded Living Routes in 1999. It partnered with UMass Amherst to run study-abroad programs based in ecovillages around the world. In 2012 he started Earth Deeds, which offers online tools to support local solutions to global warming and, more recently, CAPE (Custom Academic Programs in Ecovillages). After serving a term as president of the Global Ecovillage Network, in 2023 he became co-director of the Foundation for Intentional Community.