I attended the AltWheels festival in Brookline, Massachusetts on Saturday.  With climate change and environmental issues getting a lot of attention on dKos recently, I thought I'd report on a workshop I attended featuring activists and public officials talking about municipal and state-level efforts.  I'm a perpetual note-taker, so I'm going to reproduce them below in the hope that they will give you ideas on steps to take in your local community.  Forgive the lack of eloquence in this diary.

Are we tired of coming up with core values yet?  I needed to sleep on it, and came up with the above.

I'm not going to provide laundry lists of policies under these, although pretty much everything that was discussed in the main page threads yesterday would qualify under one of them (at least loosely).  The point is use and repetition, not an encyclopedic scope to cover every aspect of progressive thought.  After all, the Republicans have somehow claimed "family values" at the same time they are making things more difficult for families in a huge number of ways.

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