We live on a solar powered ranch in the hills between Hopland (where Real Goods is) and Ukiah. Living with limited natural resources is a reality for us, and is a constant reminder for us how vulnerable this earth is. Please walk lightly... www.virtualcomm

Kristina Severance is the owner of Severance Photography, a stock photography agency that focuses on the lives of people living in remote areas or in indigenous cultural areas. Her work has taken her to Honduras, Peru, Costa Rica, Nepal, Bali, Brazil, Pata

... created virtual communities for web 2.0 startups. She is an active volunteer

Drew is a poet, teacher, and activist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the author of love letter to the milky way: a book of poems, founder of Poets for Global Justice , and Director of the Social Ecology Program at John F. Kennedy University .

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 hap