After 2 weeks of avoiding this posting, it's time to revisit this concept. It's scary when we start to look further down our path. But I need to, or maybe we all need to consider how we will live down that path. How will we innovate?

I want to have autonomy
I want to live work and play near my family and immediate community. I want to help design and rebuild houses aligned with ecological principles. I want to use these houses as classrooms to teach kids ecological principles and practical primary education and life skills. These houses will be incubators for co-op businesses to replicate and do the same in cities all over the world. I want to design information systems that we live and work by. I want to design computer systems that are integrated into the structure of our dwellings and run on solar energy and control the energy system of the structure.
Information
I want to design and help build systems that allow groups to collaborate on redesigning and rebuilding houses.
I want to grow community gardens
I want to grow gardens in the front yards of suburbia and connect with neighbors and get to know them, break bread together and be healthy.
I want to help develop a system that is distributed and collectively owned and operated.
I want to raise our children in a sustainable proof of concept model and I want to die knowing that they are on a path different than ours today;
what I want most
is to believe in public, that this can happen and be able to explain that there is a common core to all of these aspirations. They are about closing a linear system and healing our natural cyclical process. Reconnecting our relationship and deep understanding of the ecology is primary education and core lifestyle.
sustainability.