Five Signs of the Coming Revolution •The Resurgence of Citizens' Movements -Paul Hawken •The Graying of America -Gay Gaer Luce •The Rising Challenge to Corporate Control of Our Lives -David Korten •Our Rediscovery of the World's Mysteries -James Redfield • A New Connected Generation -Margaret Wheatley Join the revolution! Café Utne is hosting discussions with several of the visionary authors who contributed essays to Imagine. For a full schedule, go to The Salon Related Articles The House that Lois Built A Cuppa Justice Students Say No to Classroom Commercials

At an age when most people are at least thinking about retiring, 72-year-old Lois Lewis decided to take on the biggest project of her life.

'I needed to do something I'd never done, and I needed a real change from what I was doing,' Lewis recalls in the Summer Solstice 2000 issue of Crone Chronicles, a magazine celebrating the power of aging. After reading an article in her local newspaper, the former teacher signed up for a homebuilding workshop conducted by Becky Bee. The workshop was held at Bee's Earthworks studio, about an hour from Lewis' southern Oregon home. Under Bee's tutelage, Lewis learned to build basic structures out of cob, a durable combination of clay, sand, and straw traditionally used in English villages.