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Designing to Belong (Not Just to Be)

Randy Ripley, AIA -
Isn’t it interesting how we sometimes pursue seemingly opposing values in the way we live?  You know, we find ourselves enjoying the biggest, the newest, the most clever and beautiful cutting edge designs, and then almost in the same...
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Building Community with Portable Brick Ovens

Abundant Community -
“We knead to bake!” That’s the motto of the St. Paul Bread Club, “the largest bread club we know of,” they say, “at least in the sense of being a group of individuals with a common interest in bread.” The Club...
John McKnight

This Land Is My Land

John McKnight -
  Related: Dufferin Grove Park: The Bake Ovens Building Community with Portable Brick Ovens Wood-fired Communal Oven In A Park: Why Bother? (Jutta Mason, The Project for Public Spaces)   Home page photo: Friends of Dufferin Park
Friends & Neighbors

Time Banking: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Edgar Cahn -
  An event sponsored by a time bank in Lathrup Village, Michigan. Photo courtesy of Michigan Municipal League   Ten years ago, Susan Dentzler of NPR was retained by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to investigate whether time banking (a system that lets people swap...
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Stories from the Lathrup Village Time Bank

Abundant Community -
Guitar lessons. Computer help. Typing. Sewing on buttons. Cooking a spaghetti dinner. Walking a neighbor’s dog. Cleaning out a basement. These are just a few of the things members of the Lathrup Village Time Bank have done for one...
Friends & Neighbors

Join Us for Connecting4Community in Cincinnati in May

Louise van Rhyn -
On May 3 and 4, community and organizational leaders from all over the world will gather in Cincinnati, Ohio for the inaugural Connecting4Community gathering. The purpose of the event is to gather together people who have been inspired by Peter Block...
Stories

Civic Action in Sarasota County, Florida

Mike McGrath -
Mike McGrath describes an innovative model for civic engagement in this blog post for State of the Re:Union. Clearly, Tim Dutton of SCOPE (Sarasota County Plans for Civic Excellence) really gets what a citizen is and uses his offices to promote...
Stories

Adelita’s Gift: The Value of Asking the Right Questions

Mike Mather -
Watch Pastor Mike Mather of Broadway United Methodist Church in Indianapolis tell how one of his congregations started asking different questions, discovered Adele’s gift and got “a lotta great food” as a bonus. Then join the conversation and share your...
John McKnight

Citizen Cop Out

John McKnight -
Join the conversation . . .  How would you organize a gathering of citizens to keep them from copping out?     Video by Peter Block. Home page photo: Jennifer Kumar
Friends & Neighbors

Breathing Life In by Stepping Away

Laura Fulton -
Sometimes the best way to enhance our communities is to step away from them. ... this can provide a means through which we can refresh our thoughts, gain perspective and return with renewed vision and purpose. The business world has...
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A Buddhist teacher once nudged me along the path by rephrasing a question my mind kept posing to itself....
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