Reply #85: ... Thanks AnneD. I thought it should be worthwhile (in the non-commercial sense)

[Ghost Dog]

looking into investigating/getting involved in some local grass-roots stuff, eg:

· possibility for forming a local eco/organic foods etc. cooperative;

· an 'initiative' (from the ruling local powers that be), apparently still so far almost entirely undocumented, although lobbied-for, to turn around 45% of this island into an 'arid lands' National Park. The intentions of which may not be as positive as they at first sound, since the project may be designed to lift the few restrictions that at the moment apply in order to allow the almost complete urbanisation of the other half of the island to create a tourism monoculture at least a hundred times larger than at the present (which has already multiplied many-fold over these last twenty years)...

· plenty more...

So that involves 'making friends and influencing people' (in the non-cynical sense). And using the more-or-less Spanish-speaking part of my head much more on a daily basis...