There is a big, beautiful vision map for the roadshow. It has a bip top tent in the middle, and around it is the Clean Energy Showcase, the Awakened Art Garden, the Solar Stage, the Green Screens Film Festival, everything everything. There's even someone growing food in there.

What the Roadshow is on the road is a series of puzzle pieces of that vision map. Some cities it's full-blown, with the dome, the Health and Healing Tent, the whole big beautiful song. Other places it's just the carnival, or part of the carnival, or the carnival and the tent, and a stage. It's what fits well. It's what works for every community and for the logistics of the crew.

Here in Atlanta at the Tupac Shakur Center for the Arts, we set up Toss Out Fossil Fuels, some Eco-Info, a small stage, and our Green Marketplace. It was beautiful, it was more than enough. Against the backdrop of the Peace Garden and the memorial to 2pac, we created an intimate community space. The fabulous Jennifer Johns was lead organizer, emcee and entertainment. She introduced Pac's Kids, a group of young performers, poets and dancers who abseloutely blew us away with their talent. The Tupac Shakur Foundation used the sales from previously unreleased 2pac tracks to fund some amazing arts programs for children.

The kids were very engaged in the carnival game, and asked some of the most pertinent and informed questions yet. Very attentive, very patient, and they thanked us for coming. We were very impressed with their behavior-- this was a crop of very good kids. They joined Jennifer onstage as one big boisterous group for her song "Ghetto International." It was the kind of gorgeous that seems like it should only be in movies. We felt a good connection with the community and are partnered with the Tupac Shakur Foundation for future events.

Currently half of our crew is in Avingdon, Virginia at the Appalachian Community Economics conference. It's a solutionary discussion of mountaintop removal and economics. Our team there have been holding down an Eco-Info zone and a Sporriors Mushroom Booth. You can read about a tour of mountaintop restoration sites, the conference and community on Happy Feet Travels, a blog by the roadshow's Russel Howze. It's a very exciting time to be speaking about sustainability: a catalyzing idea for communities and organizations alike.