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Activating the Common Good: Reclaiming Control of Our Collective Well-being

A powerful, surprising, and achievable vision of a society based on cooperation and community instead of...

Flawless Consulting

For over forty years Flawless Consulting has been the go-to guide to building trust and structuring...

Confronting Our Freedom: Leading a Culture of Chosen Accountability and Belonging

Confronting Our Freedom is about reframing the common practices rising from traditional thinking about management and...

The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power

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by Wolfgang Sachs available at Powells.com

What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth

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by Wendell Berry Purchase at Powells.com

With Liberty and Dividends for All

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by Peter Barnes available at Powells

Our Common Wealth: The Hidden Economy That Makes Everything Else Work

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by Peter Barnes available at powells.com

Tomato Economics

by Olivia Saunders available at the following: Xlibris

An Other Kingdom

by Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, and John McKnight available at the following: Powells Barnes & Noble...

The Value of Nothing by Raj Patel

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

Ronnie Shakes

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

Meyer A Perlstein

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

Paolo Friere

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

Joseph Joubert

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

Leroy

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

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

Adrienne Rich

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

Paul Goodman

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

Italian Proverb

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

Henry Miller

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

Madeline Nold

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

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

Godwin Hlatshwayo

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

All consciousness begins with an act of disobedience.

Carl Jung

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

Joseph Joubert

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

John McKnight

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

Jim Keene

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

Clint Kemp

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

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

Bross’s paradox

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

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