A new idea for an old place

A couple of weeks ago in a class review/discussion session, the class ended with Professor Hirsch asking the class to think of ways to put to use the information we digest interpret and discuss, not to just go home and chill out in front of the T.V. but to mull over ideas and try to take them to the next level.
I've had an idea evolving in my mind since the first few weeks of class, the idea of my community's resource efficiency. I think so much can be done and has to be done at the local level to further prevent irreversible damage to the earth and it's finite resources. First off I currently live in a rural agriculture farming community, Washington County. There's a mixture of dairy cows and beef cattle and plenty of subsidized corn and crop growers, with the occasional alpaca and buffalo farmer. I live on a 70 acre farm, where my family and our landlords raise cattle for strict human consumption. The town consists of one stop light in town and quite a few small locally owned businesses, a very typical rural community.
WIth a variable amount of investigation I've discovered a lot of small business owners have made small efforts to be more energy efficient and to include organic and green products to offer to their costumers. Specific examples range from energy efficient light bulbs to selling organic fertilizer at the local florist. I've deciphered that some of the changes are made from the economic need to be more frugal and the consumer need to keep up with the "Going Green" movement. The resource, that I discovered, that's lacking in the community is that there is no effort to rally small business owners and residents of Cambridge to gather together to form our own Going Green Movement.
A movement I envision, that unifies local business, their owners, employees and their costumers to embrace the conservation of natural resources and alternative energy uses. I also envision the Chamber of Commerce and the Town of Cambridge officials to start to formulate a plan that will sustain the community of Cambridge completely independent of fossil fuels and look towards developing funds for energy efficient resources like wind turbines and hydroelectric power that could power 1000's of acres of land. Whatever the ideas are to save on resources is trivial, the focus is to get people together. People that have already started taking steps towards Going Green. People, like myself, that have planted a single seed that has the potential, with some optimism to grow to huge proportions. We could set a president, a standard that other rural communities could look towards.
Through my studies at UAlbany and Women Studies courses, I've come to realize the most oppressed people are the ones isolated from themselves. For instance women in the 17th century were practicality kept in the home under lock and key. They had no access to each other for support and the exchange of ideas it wasn't until two women, Elizabeth Caddie Stanton and Suzanne B. Anthony conversed together over tea and had the opportunity to exchange ideas. Their interactions were the true beginnings to the Women's Movement. Their beginnings and the beginnings of many other movements have to be studied and repeated and to include new age technologies and ways of communication. These tools need to be utilized to bring to a head the desperate need to detoxify ourselves from an addiction to fossil fuel and cheap exhaustible resources.