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7.3.6 Land

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Our footprint is the point.

7.3.5 Food

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This ties it all together. The economy, the spirit, the local movement, our health, the environment.

7.3.4 Public Safety

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Safety in the neighborhood is produced by neighbors finding things to do together.

7.3.2 Raising a Child

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Take back from teh school the responsibility of raising your child. The neighborhood is the modern...

7.3.1 Local Economy

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The politics of a dollar. Working within walking distance. Not waiting for Toyota to open a...

Peter Pula

Peter Pula

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Walter Brueggemann

Walter Brueggemann

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John McKnight

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Web of Debt by Ellen Brown

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The Value of Nothing by Raj Patel

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The Mind of the Market by Michael Shermer

Mind of the Market by Michael Shermer

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1.1 The Measure of Well Being

Everywhere there are citizen-leaders inventing ways for themselves and their neighbors to: be safe, produce a...

Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block

Community: the Structure of Belonging Peter Block

Peter Block

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Section 7: Practice of Community Building

Section 6: The Process of Transformation

Section 5: Communal Restoration

Section 4: The Limits of Development

Section 3: Privatization

Section 2: Context of Scarcity

Section 1: The Common Good

Introduction: Curriculum for the Common Good

This website is designed to bring together the theory and practices of communal restoration. Our purpose...

Open Letter to Journalists

An Open Letter to Journalists By Peggy Holman, cofounder, Journalism That Matters It’s time for a new...

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If I am ever stuck on a respirator or life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged-but not until I get down to a size eight.

Henriette Mantel

Leadership is willingness to have faith in a future we do not understand.

Clint Kemp

Every time you add a highway lane, you slow down traffic.

Bross’s paradox

Education is never neutral. It always involves a project…either keep things the same or change them.

Paolo Friere

When we meet, I am talking to myself and you are spying on me.

Leroy

The power to call people a problem is the most injurious thing you can do.

John McKnight

Lost luggage is an initiation ritual. It is an invitation to a simpler life.

Madeline Nold

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.

Italian Proverb

All consciousness begins with an act of disobedience.

Carl Jung

I fear one day I’ll meet God, he’ll sneeze, and I won’t know what to say.

Ronnie Shakes

Questions are fateful. They determine destinations. They are the chamber through which destiny calls.

Godwin Hlatshwayo

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

If your time hasn’t come, not even a doctor can kill you.

Meyer A Perlstein

I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

Henry Miller

Though the commons is everywhere, it is nonetheless little noticed. For economists, it is a kind of inchoate mass that awaits the vivifying hand of the market to attain life. Forests are worthless until they become timber, just as quiet is worthless until it becomes advertising.

Jonathan Rowe, Our Common Wealth

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

Adrienne Rich

A part of kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

Revolution is not capturing institutions, it is discovering free space and enlarging it.

Paul Goodman

Our communities are broken. For the ones that look whole, the price is being born somewhere else.

Jim Keene

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Joseph Joubert

Most communities can be compared to a football game where 30,000 people who need the exercise turn up to watch 36 people who don’t.

Peter Kenyon

I have tried to teach service to my husband and revolution to my son.

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