Colleagues, Several days ago I requested recommendations for education materials to work with local people on "why" sustainable living matters, as opposed to "what" it is and "how" to do it. I am grateful for the response I received and want to return the favor. On the same subject (maybe one of you first recommended this to me) I found a book, authored in 2011 by Frances Moore Lappe, entitled EcoMind: Changing the way We Think, to Create the World We Want. In the book Lappe exposes seven "thought traps" that she suggests are limiting an effective response to the crises we face in matters of the environment, social and economic justice, and our political (democratic) processes. For those of you who are working in any or all of these areas, check out this book to see if you might find it informative, as I have. Her approach, evident in the title, is to bring about significant change through the change of hearts and minds, i.e. "the way we think." If you should read it I would be grateful if you would share your reflections. Randy "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." --Buckminster Fuller