ABCD stories
November 16, 2015
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Local stories that reflect citizen-led action in neighbourhoods where we support communities to focus on what's strong and not what's wrong...
Read MoreWhy Place Such a Strong and Focused Emphasis on Place-based Community Building?
[caption id="attachment_3283" align="alignleft" width="262"] Audre Lorde ©Dagmar Schultz[/caption] "Without community, there can be no liberation". Audre Lorde. The root causes of the vast majority of socio-economic...
Read MoreEnd Loneliness? Build Community!
If 'how to end loneliness?' is your question, community building is the answer. [caption id="attachment_3291" align="aligncenter" width="364"] Artist: Graham Ogilvie. Used with the kind permission...
Read MoreA Bird in the hand: Use what we have to secure what we need
Over the last twenty years, across the world, I've come across four distinct ways of thinking about building community in difficult times. Naturally enough,...
Read MoreCommunities are the atomic elements of molecular democracy: Part 4
Bonding and Bridging atoms Currently, populist theories of social and economic change in the Global North, suggest that crises’ in the domains of democracy, health,...
Read MoreCommunities are the atomic elements of molecular democracy: Part 3
‘Growing an Association of Associations’ You received gifts from me; they were accepted. But you don’t understand how to think about the dead. The smell of winter...
Read MoreCommunities are the atomic elements of molecular democracy: Part 2
'We used to dream big, now we have a district commissioner who does that for us.' Last week I finished with the question: What happens...
Read MoreCommunities are the atomic elements of molecular democracy: Part 1
In this series of four blogs I’d like to think about active citizenship and democracy. In this regard, I will not be writing about: How...
Read MoreWar, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin’
Globalisation’s promise to avert World War III has triggered a wide range of other wars. As well as wars between Sovereign states, since Bretton...
Read MoreA Gift is not a gift until it’s given
A community can never own that which was created for them, in the same way that they own that which they create for themselves....
Read MoreWhat does Abundance mean, anyway? House of Cards
Last week I received a great email from someone whom I find to be a terrifically deep thinker. They ask the most brilliant questions,...
Read MoreDemocracy: lettuce leaves and assemblies
There is a woman who lives in a neighbourhood in Chicago, who just loves lettuce. She also loves children. Each year she shows the...
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