The following is an excerpt from The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000 Mile Journey Through a New America. Magazine readers and people who followed my blog, tipped me off to good stories, and introduced me to extraordinary people. The revolution I discovered is decentralized, far less flashy, and better able to include everyone, especially those now excluded from wealth and power. I came back from my travels believing that this sort of revolution is our only real hope in the face of ecological and social unraveling. The only way such a big revolution can happen is, ironically, at a small scale.