The Forward

I have been blessed with the inspiration to create The Catalyst Project and I have been doubly blessed through the many people who have helped me. Some have inspired me from a distance, while others have graciously given of their time and talents to make this dream a reality.

You know who you are, and I would like to include you in this public thank you. If I have forgotten anyone in the following list, please refresh my memory!

Many thanks to those who, purposefully or inadvertently, provided inspiration (including all those who continued to work for a Peaceful world even when it wasn't fashionable), as well as all the people who helped in the production of The Catalyst Project.

Some of you are, chronologically:

The people in the No GWEN Alliance whose community action, some say, kept the U.S. government from erecting a global military communication tower in our town, Eugene, Oregon.

The Eugene Nuclear Free Zone committee at Eugene PeaceWorks for demonstrating that a few dedicated people can change the world.

Stephanie Griffis and Moz Wright for reading that first rough, rough draft. Greg Challe for encouraging me to offer The Catalyst Project as a community empowerment concept and tool. Gail Britton, who had the courage to wade through one of those early editions and offer editorial changes. Robert Wolfe for editing and editing and editing and...

Melanie Campbell for reading, editing, typing, and for conversations and dinners together. Donna Wago for typing, incorporating, and providing information. Clarise Dankers first, for asking what The Catalyst Project is, when she dialed a wrong telephone number (long distance), and then for offering her professional editing talent to this work.

Ram Dass for his warm endorsement.

Shanti Mayi (peaceful mother) for spiritual assistance.

Sue Barnhart for support and contributing a chapter, How to Run a Meeting. And Lisa Igoe for her's, Revolution or Renaissance?

Christine Challe for conversation and resource material.

Barbara Master for original typesetting, layout, and editing.

Rob Foltz and Jeff Freeman for reading and editing both early and final drafts. Nan Cohen for reading, and editing. Richard Gold for encouragement from the project's inception, and for being involved, sometimes wholly, in many phases of The Catalyst Project's development.

Karen Hart for her professional editing expertise.

The guy from deadwood.

Liesel Hart for re-doing the "whole ball of wax" with me and for being my friend.

Martin Croes for editing and patience.

The Catalyst is dedicated to my wonderful children Sierra Dawn and Dylan Bodhi and to Dick and Jane. May they run together forever. And may we all have the vision to see.

Eugene, Oregon

Earth Day, 1990 and 2000