Todd Fiorentino

At some point in my 20s, I realized that humans have a penchant for creating complicated solutions to simple problems.  More and more technology is not the answer.  Actually, it’s what’s fueling our ecological crisis, robbing our kids of their childhood and putting us into a constant state of distraction and interruption.  It is this tendency towards constant change, even when something is working pretty well, that is crazy-making.  I found myself asking: If x, y, z was really good, could I recognize that goodness?  Once I realized that my answer was probably not, I changed my focus to simple things that help people.  I sought to be of service to the community—to love, learn, appreciate.  I began pursuing therapeutic massage professionally to calm people down from the angry states that lead to societal problems while putting them in touch with their own creativity and dreams instead.  I became a "coffee guy," as one of my regulars likes to shout across the plaza with a wave.  I tried to figure out ways for us to hold on to what’s left of wild nature and -- get in touch -- with what’s wild in ourselves, so that our children don’t have to go to a museum to see wildlife.  There are some very grim things in our history.  This website will clue people in to some of them.  My hope is that through story, unwinding cultural assumptions (like putting humans above all other life forms) and an immersion back into nature, we can find our way as humans who walk the earth.

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Animal Safe Towns

The key to animal issues is a proactive and positive approach.  Telling people what to do, won't work.  But proactively identifying (and going on record) the issues and crafting regulations to avoid animal suffering, will work.

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