Susan Witt, the Executive Director of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, speaks about how the energetic cooperation of communities rebuilding after natural disasters is the same bold spirit needed to rebuild our local economies.

Wes Jackson moved to Matfield Green, Kansas in order renew the small, almost abandoned town on an ecological and sustainable basis after years of seeing harm done to his beloved prairies through the implementation of corporate agricultural practices. It is a large undertaking, and it may not be successful; however, he has only one choice and we with him: to try.

Wendell Berry speaks about what links us to a home place and how that connection results in a "husbandry" that benefits people, land, and community.