Playing Fair in Love and Climate Change
Today’s’ guest post comes from Mallory McDuff, the author of the soon to be released book Sacred Acts: How Churches …
Keyword: community
Consensus-Oriented Decision-Making
The CODM Model for Facilitating Groups to Widespread Agreement
For any group or organization to function effectively, it must be able to make decisions well. Consensus-Oriented Decision-Making is the first book to offer groups (and group facilitators) a clear and efficient path togenerating widespread agreement …
related subjects: Progressive Leadership
Choosing a Sustainable Future
Ideas and Inspiration from Ithaca, NY
We all want a sustainable future, but what does it look like, and how do we get there? In Ithaca, NY a new culture is blossoming - one that values cooperation, local production, environmental stewardship, social justice andcreativity. Ithaca is …
related subjects: Community Building
Creating Cohousing
Building Sustainable Communities
A man's home is his castle. But demographic and economic changes haveturned our castles into islands. How can we regain the elements of the traditional village – family, cooperation, community and a sense of belonging – within the context of …
related subjects: Community Building
Living Green
Communities that Sustain
Social issues are, and need to be, a central part of environmental and economic sustainability efforts. Using stories of extraordinary communities across North America, Living Green showcases the social side of living green.
The book features …
related subjects: Community Building
Senior Cohousing Handbook -- 2nd Edition
A Community Approach to Independent Living
No matter how rich life is in youth and middle age, the elder years can bring on increasing isolation and loneliness as social connections lessen, especially if friends and family members move away.
Senior cohousing fills a niche for this demographic …
related subjects: Community Building
The Ecology Of Hope
Communities Collaborate for Sustainability
The Ecology of Hope is a remarkably upbeat account of a number of communities where collaboration among different factions and interest groups has led to breakthrough consensus on plans for achieving sustainability. The authors reveal the hopeful …
related subjects: Sustainable Living , New Catalyst Books
Plan C
Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change
Concerns over climate change and energy depletion are increasing exponentially.
Mainstream solutions still assume a panacea that will cure our climate ills without requiring any serious modification to our way of life.
Plan C explores the risks …
related subjects: Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil
Small is Possible
Life in a Local Economy
In an era when incomprehensibly complex issues like Peak Oil and Climate Change dominate headlines, practical solutions at a local level can seem somehow inadequate.
In response, Lyle Estill's Small is Possible introduces us to "hometown security," …
related subjects: Environment & Economy , Community Building
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