"If it took all my life now, I would carve us a road through the mountain.”

The smaller group sessions focused on some very relevant issues in specific sectors and led to intense brain storming by the participants.

Can a coalition of movements from many sectors attain the critical mass needed to eventually transform the political and economic structures currently prevalent?

All (building material) was lifted on the back and carried by the villagers up the hill!

This alternative approach may perhaps be best described as a biomass based strategy for sustainable prosperity