Without a hitch

Living in the mountains can have it's limitations, but the great thing about limitations is that they give you the opportunity to solve the problems created by them.

With few trappings of organized municipal government we have created the Mountain Communities Energy Co-op. A simple group of people anxious about rising costs of heating our homes. Yes, global warming is in the back of our minds, but really the long-term goal of solar or wind or geo-thermal power comes from the rising "cost" of oil and propane.

As a collective we will be able to help each other while we help ourselves. Amazing that a co-op works that way.

If at all possible, we will try to avoid the snares of local, small town politics. But, phrased a different way we will have to deal with personalities and personal issues. On a small town level we see it as humanity at its lesser level. In a large town it's de-humanized to the term "politics".

In the end, everything we do has to bow down to the permit process. Legal ways of sharing energy and rebate programs will guide us in the prescribed direction, determined by the politics alive and well in state and federal government. All the same, here in our small town communities the first level of red tape hasn't been developed....yet. If we are inspired to do it, we can do it. All we have to do is navigate our way through the process.

Wish us benevolent guidence to deal with the important issues at hand. Help us to lead the way for other small towns to follow. Truely, we are a nation of small towns and diverse personalities dealing with our own humanity. At the highest level of achievement who knows what wonders we can rise to! We are grassroots without shackles, other than the personalities that would bind us if they could.