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Neighborhoods: What is Working
The Economy: Under New Ownership
The deep redesign of our economy isn’t beginning in Washington, D.C. It is rooted in relationships: to the living earth and to one another. It’s about a shift from dominion to community.A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life
Margaret Mead is not the only person to recognize that the way the world changes is through individual acts and the efforts of small groups of committed people. Parker Palmer has long helped us search for ways to give a life meaning and to change the world.Harnessing and Harvesting “The Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People”
The first of a series on the learning, challenges and opportunities seen at Connecting4Community to shift to more citizen-centered, bottom-up ways of living and structuring our approaches to the problems we see around us.Open Street Project
9 Steps to Create Open Streets
Just like Chess, planning Open Streets takes strategy and planning. With so many moving parts to coordinate, it can be difficult to know how to start planning your Open Streets initiative. Coordinating between local government, businesses and neighborhood groups can feel overwhelming if you don’t have a plan. Luckily, the good folks at ioby have [...]Jackson holds Mississippi’s first Open Streets
They were dancing in the streets of Jackson during Open Streets. How do you turn people who walk and bike into advocates for safer streets when they don’t identify as walkers and cyclists? This is a question that leaders of Bike Walk Mississippi, and advocates across the country, are constantly asking themselves. While many advocacy [...]Tips for Attending Open Streets
We spend a lot of time talking about how to organize Open Streets, but the vast majority of people just want to enjoy a day walking or riding with their family and friends. How do you make it as easy as possible for participants to have a great time at Open Streets? We know that [...]© 2013 Created by Lee Cruz.
