Safety within Reach
Peter Block: April 2024 “The impossible is the least that one can demand.” –James Baldwin...
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Leader As Convener
by Peter Block We know that leadership matters. Traditionally we have defined the function as visionary,...
Real News Network’s Reality Asserts Itself, Part 1 of 3
The Real News Network’s Reality Asserts Itself, Part 1 of 3
Freedom
Walter Brueggemann talks about Freedom in this clip.
7.3.7 Care for the Vulnerable
They want to be useful. They have gifts. They long to be seen.
7.3.5 Food
This ties it all together. The economy, the spirit, the local movement, our health, the environment.
7.3.4 Public Safety
Safety in the neighborhood is produced by neighbors finding things to do together.
7.3.2 Raising a Child
Take back from teh school the responsibility of raising your child. The neighborhood is the modern...
7.3.1 Local Economy
The politics of a dollar. Working within walking distance. Not waiting for Toyota to open a...
Introduction: Curriculum for the Common Good
This website is designed to bring together the theory and practices of communal restoration. Our purpose...
4.1 Development and the Business Perspective
When not operating under the name of reform, the business perspective take on the name of...
2.1 The Business Perspective
Creating a dense social fabric, which we are calling community building, is more critical to the...
4.2 Modernism and What’s Next?
We associate development with growth; we seek the “latest and most advanced kind,” the definition of...
2.2 Consumer Economy
The dual reality of empire and the business perspective have fueled the consumer economy. Consumption and...
4.3 Royal Protocols
This means that when we try to reform health, safety, education, government, finance, we will look...
2.3 Privatization
Opposition to the common good works under a number of disguises of empire: globalization, efficiency, competitive...
1.1 The Measure of Well Being
Everywhere there are citizen-leaders inventing ways for themselves and their neighbors to: be safe, produce a...
4.4 Loss of Culture, Community and Place
The societal cost to seeking these modernist versions of reform is that we lose our cultural...
1.2 Epidemic of Isolation
The effort to build the social fabric required to support the commons is a major, long-term...
Introduction: Curriculum for the Common Good
This website is designed to bring together the theory and practices of communal restoration. Our purpose...
