Via Jabob's blog, which I recommend as daily reading. Here you go:

These are beautiful people from New Orleans who hooked up with some old school French social entrepreneures, the Secours Populaire Francais. The Popular Help.

There's an odds-on chance that we're set to witness more large-scale system failures as bloated, wasteful and sluggish institutions run into challenges they cannot adequately address. Today it's FEMA, tomorrow it may be General Motors or Keiser Permanente. What will replace these things? Perhaps human beings doing human things will do.

Human Power

I've been considering the notion of Human Power for a little while now. I thought about getting a tattoo to the effect; those words and a stylized bike gear on my shoulder or something. I think it might be a good title for the book too, a good concept to organize around.