This website is designed to bring together the theory and practices of communal restoration. Our purpose is to participate with all those engaged in restoring commitment to the common good. We want to be a gathering place, like a library, for stories and radical ideas strong enough to build the social capital and engaged communities required for the restoration of the commons.

This restoration is about a shift from a context of scarcity and privatization to one of abundance and communal interest. We want to assemble in one place the principles, practices, and tools for this restorative transformation, which is well underway.

We are constructing this as a self-navigating online curriculum, where individuals, classrooms or citizen groups can design their own sequence of inquiry. There are seven sections or tabs, the first ones clarify what it means to care for the common good. Following sections explore the context of scarcity, privatization, and the limits of development. The last sections of the curriculum focus on communal restoration, transformation, and the people and practices that are changing the world. Central to the project is inverting our thinking about the disciplines of economics, theology, journalism, art and architecture.

We also want to give visibility to the untitled community builders, local people, under the radar, who are engaged in the transformational practices that are restoring our care for place, community and each other. No small task.
We don’t know what to name this collective landscape, but will call it a Curriculum for Communal Restoration for the moment. It will be the collective record of ordinary citizens producing the common good.