What is KEA Doing?
“We are working well when we use ourselves as the fellow creatures of the plants, animals, materials, and other people we are working with. Such work is unifying, healing. It brings us home from pride and from despair, and places us responsibly within the human estate. It defines us as we are: not too good to work with our bodies, but too good to work poorly or joylessly or selfishly or alone.” –Wendell Berry Over the past three years Kootenai Environmental Alliance had sponsored a program entitled From Dialogue to Action. It has three goals: • To create working partnerships among community, business and corporate leaders, private landowners, government agencies, elected officials, universities, and the public to plan for economic development, environmental protection, and the preservation of existing communities. • To develop a shared planning vision and adopt a course of action. • To implement this action plan. In 2005, KEA jointly sponsored a growth-focused workshop—Got Growth?–wi
