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Web of Debt by Ellen Brown

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Economy

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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Economy

Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block

Community: the Structure of Belonging Peter Block

Introduction: Curriculum for the Common Good

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

The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook & Companion

In this time of free agency, outsourcing, and cross-functional work teams, consulting has become a part

Freedom and Accountability at Work, with Peter Koestenbaum

In this profound book, Peter Koestenbaum and Peter Block offer you a new perspective for viewing

The Empowered Manager

Block introduces the path to empowerment and shows managers the inherent pressures that discourage initiative, dull

The Answer to How Is Yes

Modern culture’s worship of “how-to” pragmatism has turned us into instruments of efficiency and commerce—but we’re

Stewardship: Choosing Service over Self-Interest

Stewardship was a provocative, even revolutionary book when the first edition was published twenty years ago

Flawless Consulting 3rd Edition

For over three decades Peter Block’s “Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used” has

The Abundant Community

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Building a Healthy and Just Community

Highlights from John and Peter’s May 29, 2012 Conversation with Mike Butler, Police and Fire Chief,

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

Joseph Joubert

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

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

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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

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

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

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

Leroy

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Jim Keene

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

Godwin Hlatshwayo

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

Paolo Friere

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

Clint Kemp

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

Joseph Joubert

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

Paul Goodman

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

John McKnight

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

Adrienne Rich

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

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

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

Bross’s paradox

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