Category Archives: Video
Ensuring Public Safety in a Sustainable Way
“How do we deal with people who have committed crime to minimize their recidivism? How do...
Organizing Residents to Solve an Impossible Challenge
If we want to end economic isolation and build wealth in the marginalized community, our thinking...
Changing the Narrative for Community Leadership
With the old news business changing this is an exciting time of opportunity and threat, said...
Powerful Possibilities of Being Small
Small groups of faithful, committed people are the atoms that make a movement, says John McKnight....
On Finding Freedom
What is the price we pay for freedom? What are the choices and consequences that come...
The Radical and Freeing Work of Enacting Jubilee
Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp of Temple Sholom Cincinnati is calling for a new relationship with money –...
Introduction to Restore Commons
Peter Block explains the need and value to restore a sense of the commons to our...
Alternative Journalism with Sarah van Gelder of Yes! Magazine
Alternative Journalism: Changing the Narrative of Who We Are Peter Block interviews Sarah van Gelder, editor...
Data vs. Narrative
Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann discuss the power of narrative in determining the course of societal...
Peter Block’s introduction to Restore-Commons.
Welcome to the Restore-Commons website. Here Peter Block describes his thoughts for this website.
Community Building Through Gifts
Building strong neighborhoods becomes a matter of everybody contributing as many of their gifts as they...
Dancing into Freedom
Peter Block discusses the need for vision and unity in the pursuit of an alternative economy....
You Can’t Command Care
Institutional systems can command many behaviors but they cannot command care. Care is the commitment of...
Being Alive
Michelle Long, director of BALLE, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, answers the question, if you...
Self-Organizing Systems
Harrison Owen names the New York City food system as an example of a self-organizing system.
Discovering Open Space
Harrison Owen discusses the idea of Open Space and naturalistic sharing and discussion.
Uncredentialed Leader
Walter Brueggeman discusses the move from indebtedness to freedom, drawing upon the story of Elijah and...
Wilderness
Walter Brueggeman likens the Israelites’ difficult journey into the wilderness to modern believers’ journey toward a...
Into Slavery
Scarcity and food monopoly is at the center of slavery. Ancient and today. Walter opens our...
Food Monopoly
Joseph and Pharaoh were the original source of agribusiness. Reconstructing the production and distribution and purchase...
Embracing Fallibility
Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann discuss the framing of death as personal failure that can be...
Empire vs. Community
Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann discuss Empire and the toxic belief it perpetuates — that who...
