This story is about people making up their minds, and even changing their minds, about something that threatened, disrupted, and divided their community. The people are the “solid citizens” you find in most places...The threat, too, is familiar — the coming to town of a big, distant corporation [Rio Tinto]...In this case, the threat was intensified, because the company wanted to open up a nickel-copper mine, which poses risks for health, safety, and the environment...This story is also about the people in that distant corporation and how they too have had to make up and even change their minds about how to act when they come into a community...and then disrupt its life. Finally, this story is about an agreement, a genuine innovation hammered out between people in the community and people in the company... The choices they made will have consequences for the mine...and for the community...