I am a practitioner/activist/researcher in alternative economics and founding director of EcoPraxis, a non-profit that works collaboratively with small businesses and community-based organizations in putting the vision of sustainable community economies into practice. My current projects include grassroots research on the local food economy and building collective resources for social justice and sustainability initiatives. I am also a Buddhist whose spiritual practice informs my work, seeking to wake people up to over-consumption and social inequality as root causes of the looming ecological/economic collapse.