First paragraph: In slender volume Awakening Community Intelligence, journalist and long-time supported agriculture (CSA) advocate Steven McFadden argues for exponential expansion of CSAs. In face of profound, disruptive challenges in 21st century—climate change, resource depletion, geopolitical instability—McFadden believes CSAs have potential to become community that provide key points of stability and orientation (p. 20). In ten very short chapters, McFadden unfolds his vision of this potential and issues call to action. A cornerstone is central metaphor around which McFadden organizes his vision. Drawn from craft of stone masonry, cor-nerstone is the base upon which other stones are set and building takes its form (p. 9). That base, as we look at CSA, is specific plot of farmland with tangible connections to natural cycles of life and to which shareholders and farmers freely tie their fates together in forms of reciprocity: of shareholders taking care of farmers while farmers take care of land and nourish community. These are sturdy cornerstones. But McFadden's notion of cornerstones is bigger and more dynamic than world stone mason metaphor conjures. It is cosmic, scintillating image on cover, he tells us, that captures his vision. With help of digital networking, CSAs could become of light-giving impulses; they could serve as a model for dynamic, far-flung, and intelligent network of in which community intelligence and land-based intelligence is awakened (p. 10). Anchored and networked and intelligently sparking, CSAs, he thinks, can bridge gap between personal and global, becoming worldwide nodes of environmental and human health consciously woven into network of associations (p. 68)....