Co-Production
Edgar Cahn is a social innovator and has created TimeBanking, a unique way of building community...
Category Archives: Neighborhoods
Black Swans, White Swans, and Ugly Ducklings
Source: nurturedevelopment.org The Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird, a species of swan, which...
You Can’t Command Care
Institutional systems can command many behaviors but they cannot command care. Care is the commitment of...
Paying it Forward on Steroids
Edgar Cahn, founder of TimeBanks, was a guest on Thought Grenades talking about how TimeBanking is an extraordinary way of giving and receiving that builds supportive networks and strong communities.
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Measuring and Evaluating Community Initiatives
Tom Dewar talks about how his alternative community initiatives perpetuate self-organization for community-wide plans. They explain...
Using Local Assets for Effective Community
Mary Nelson speaks about creating and improving neighborly communities, starting with people having real relationships with...
Journalism That Tells the Story of What is Working in the World
Sarah van Gelder speaks about how our culture perpetuates the idea that happiness comes from spending...
Good Food for All
Karen Lehman of FreshTaste.org helped invent the urban food movement. She discusses how local farming and distribution of food serves a variety of community building and social justice purposes.
Source: talkshoe.com
Change Thoughts about Money … Change the World
Robert Thompson of leadersinsideout.com sits down with Tim Soerens and Kevin Jones, founders of the SOCAP (Social Capital Markets) Conference, to discuss money and how it is not working for us in a way that creates the kind of lives we should all be living.
SOURCE: leaderinsideout.com
Being Alive
Michelle Long, director of BALLE, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, answers the question, if you...
Engaging the Marginalized
Jim Diers elaborates on what can happen in a local setting if absolutely everyone gets involved, including those who tend to be marginalized in the community.
Source: TalkShoe
From Consumption to Community
Mobility, progress, even optimism are obstacles to community and real connection. Neighborliness, memory, place are the...
Signs of Aliveness
Peter Block discusses the parallels between “aliveness” in spaces and aliveness in communities. Source: Travis Reed...
Stewardship: Choosing Service over Self-Interest
Stewardship was a provocative, even revolutionary book when the first edition was published twenty years ago...
