I'm a longtime online communities guy with solid roots in ground-level collective living. I'm looking for alliances in my work to help it make a difference.

My main focus is on the local social aspects of climate change. Because that change is already happening and is increasingly likely to impact every local community - both directly and indirectly - I'm more interested in adaptation planning than I am in mitigation and sustainability planning though all of them are essential.  I sure don't have the answers, so I'm researching current best practices in local, grassroots adaptation planning and blogging my findings at pResilience.org

How do you plan as a community for unprecedented change in your environment while also dealing with the challenges of factors such as peak oil, economic recession, a broken healthcare system, demographic shifts and the need to alter many of society's assumptions about living and lifestyle? How do local groups coalesce around a mission and engage their communities in adaptive thinking? It will help if we have and collection of good examples to share around and develop.

(I see both the universal and local task of adaptive planning as great applications for wiki.)

More About Moi

I'm a parent and grandparent. I was a founding member of the The Farm (a large, still active intentional back-to-the-land community) 1971 -1983. I was director of The WELL (a seminal online community) 1986 - 1992.

I have extensive hands-on experience in group commitment, the community dynamics of getting stuff done, graceful sharing of resources and knowledge, how to avoid tragedies of the commons and how to build and maintain social trust. I'd like to apply this skill and savvy to improve our odds for weathering the, uh, weather.

My professional skills include online social design, online community strategic planning planning and management, project management, business management, writing and blogging. .I consult and blog for American Health Initiative, which is using the Web to help recruit retiring healthcare professionals as volunteers in free clinics, treating the uninsured and for the Farmer-Veteran Coalition - a non-profit effort to match military veterans with opportunities in localized and organic farming operations. I network - and sometimes work - with many other experts in social media.