What are the advantages of working with local grassroots groups?
I am completely convinced that small groups promote big ideas. I know that small associations and local groups are the ones that take the first steps in achieving transformations that benefit the environment around them. And it is there, in the local environment, where ideas should be supported and developed, fed and promoted. Through direct contact with the members of these groups, we can find future leaders. It is in these leaders that we will find the key for positive change. What do you hope to achieve as an advisor on the Southern Cone Advisory Board? Through my work as an advisor I hope to be able to support small groups that are spread throughout the vast territory of Patagonia. These groups face additional challenges because of their isolation. One of my goals as an advisor is to connect them to each other. My intention is to support them in understanding that the problems they face in each of their far-flung towns are not so different, and that they can take action to promote
