Inadequate grass-roots initiative

Small, grass-roots movements, which are often unpopular at their inception, play a vital role in society. They provide a critical opposition to established ideas. They encourage free speech. A lively process of community self-government depends on a series of ad hoc political and service groups, functioning freely, each with a proper chance to test its ideas before the townspeople. But such movements need a place to manifest themselves in a way which puts their ideas directly into the public domain. As a rule these groups are small and have very little money; and communities on the whole do not provide them with space to voice and propagate their ideas or to hold meetings.

1. Unsystematic use of powerful relationships by rural communities
2. Lack of planning

1. Lack of systems for achieving grassroots agreement

1. Underemphasis on local economic development
2. Lack of participation by local communities in democratic processes
3. Lack of grassroots involvement in economic planning
4. Insufficient nuclear weapon free zones

1. Underdeveloped community leadership
2. Monopolization by interest groups in development of community priorities
3. Lack of leadership initiative
4. Insufficient women's groups
5. Ineffectiveness of individual participation in large communities
6. Incomplete understanding of new societal service systems

1. Political apathy

1. Improving grass-roots initiative
2. Establishing community development corporation
3. Educating home-owners to use renewable energy
4. Abstaining from grass-roots initiatives

1. Inadequacy
2. Unproductivity
3. Nonexistence
4. Lack