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Land/Environment

Friends & Neighbors

It’s the Community, Stupid!

Ron Dwyer-Voss -
The presidential race in 2012 is increasing attention and interest in local economies and small business.  So far the debate has focused on perceived economic drivers such as tax incentives and an educated workforce.  These have their place, but...
Stories

Abundant Community: Local Food Alliance in Placer County, California

Jeffrey Bordelon -
PlacerSustain is a 501(c)(3) non-profit located in Placer County, California, that stewards the creation of social capital at the grass roots level to create a sustainable future—helping people help themselves through sharing, connecting, collaborating and taking cooperative action.  PlacerSustain...
John McKnight

Community Abundance Is Its Gifts

John McKnight -
Abundant communities start with making visible the gifts of everyone in the neighborhood—the families, the young people, the old people, the vulnerable people, the troublesome people. Everyone. We do this not out of altruism, but to create the elements...
Peter Block

The Club Is Not the Club

Peter Block -
  Home page photo: Schani
Stories

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...
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...
Peter Block

The Point Is the Place

Peter Block -
 
Friends & Neighbors

Change the Story to Change the World

Duane Elgin -
The next five to ten years represent an unprecedented break in the human journey. We are between stories, or the guiding narratives, that serve as beacons for our collective future. For example, the "American Dream" that pulled the U.S....
Friends & Neighbors

Occupying a Different Community Space

John McKnight And Peter Block -
“Health happens in neighborhoods, not doctors’ offices,” says Dr. Richard J. Jackson, professor and chairman of environmental health sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, in a forthcoming public television series on ways to redesign the built environment...
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Friends & NeighborsTim Schlak -

The Biggest Question You Can Ask in Life

A Buddhist teacher once nudged me along the path by rephrasing a question my mind kept posing to itself....
Abundant Community
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