Given all the exciting events of 2015 and our hopes for 2016, we decided to do another year end / year beginning show that looks both backward and forward. Unfortunately, our timing did not allow for Lisa to join us in the recording, but Christopher Mitchell is joined by communications staff at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance -- Rebecca Toews and Nick Stumo-Langer.\n\nWe talk about what strikes us about the past year and what we expect to be happening in the near future. When I write "we" I mean that Christopher dominates the discussion. \n\nWe will be back with our usual interviews starting next week.\n\nThe transcript from this episode is available here.\n\nWe want your feedback and suggestions for the show - please e-mail us or leave a comment below. \n\nThis show is 27 minutes long and can be played below on this page or via iTunes or via the tool of your choice using this feed. \n\nYou can can download this Mp3 file directly from here. Listen to other episodes here or view all episodes in our index.\n\nThanks to Arne Huseby for the music, licensed using Creative Commons. The song is "Warm Duck Shuffle."