As a point of reference, the following is a list of challenges we face and integrated plans for how to address all of them and improve the local economy, the local habitat and our quality of life.

• Loss of Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction
• Global Weirding
• Geopolitical issues
• Water Pollution and Availability
• Peaking of World Oil Supplies and the interplay with Global Weirding
• economic insecurity
• peaking of conventional world oil supplies
• global 'weirding'
• habitat loss
• top soil loss
• food insecurity
• declining bee populations
• declining bird populations