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Mass Localism – A way to help small communities solve big social challenges
Policymakers increasingly recognise that many of the solutions to major social challenges – from tackling climate change to improving public health – need to be much more local. Local solutions are frequently very effective, as they reflect the needs of … Continue reading
A Rhizome based Economy: Topology of Sustainability and Fulfilled Ontogeny
The goal of this post is to outline a concrete framework for establishing a new economy based on rhizome structure that provides negative feedback against encroaching hierarchy, that ensures environmental sustainability, and that maximizes its compatibility with human ontogeny. I … Continue reading
The Problem of Growth – A Rhizome form of Social Organization Approach
At the most basic level, then, an alternative to hierarchy and a solution to the problem of growth must address this issue of dependency. My proposed alternative—what I call “rhizome”—begins at exactly this point. The first principle of rhizome is … Continue reading
Civic Engagement and the Restoration of Community – Changing the Nature of the Conversation
Read This booklet is written for citizens who care for the well being of their community. It is for those people who want to live in a neighborhood and a city that works for all its citizens and who have … Continue reading
Resilience: plan for anything, don’t plan for everything
Read Former Time foreign editor Joshua Cooper Ramo rightly concludes that ‘much of what we face cannot be deterred or prevented’. He argues in consequence that the US should ‘rechristen the Department of Homeland Security as the Department of Resilience … Continue reading
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Civilian capacity in the aftermath of conflict
Read As communities emerge from conflict, they often face a critical shortage of capacities needed to secure a sustainable peace — the core capacities to run a government, to re-establish institutions of justice, to reintegrate demobilizing fighters, to revitalize the … Continue reading
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Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Development – A New Research Agenda
Community action for sustainable development is an important element of most countries’ policies for sustainable development. We welcome this growing recognition of the role of civil society in achieving sustainability objectives, but tempered with a few words of caution: First, … Continue reading
Participatory Action and Learning – A Field Worker’s Guidebook
Read The Guidebook introduces Participatory Action and Learning (PAL) as a way of addressing a number of these issues by providing an approach for both Forest User Group (FUG) members and forestry field staff to learn together from the process. … Continue reading
Creative Democracy – Wisdom Councils at Work
“Our movements are trying to create a politics that challenges all the certainties of traditional leftist politics, not by replacing them with new ones, but by dissolving any notion that we have answers, plans or strategies that are watertight or … Continue reading
Local Knowledge – Case studies of four innovative places
It is often more important for most cities, regions and countries to absorb knowledge, adopt and spread innovations, than it is to create new ideas and products through invention and discovery. There are real economic and social gains generated when … Continue reading
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