Community Development

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A Field in Good Heart

A Field in Good Heart

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

Tending to the garden provides insight and new connections for the author. 5 $0.50 Add
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A Reparative Manifesto

A Reparative Manifesto

From: Conflict Is Not Abuse

A brief introduction about events in recent history and nature of Abuse. The author talks about Normative Conflict and Resistance, and how reasonable stances of difference can be misrepresented … 22 $0.44 Add
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Abandoning the Personal

Abandoning the Personal

The State and the Production of Abuse

From: Conflict Is Not Abuse

The state, learning from the work of anti-violence advocate Catherine Hodes to understand the difference between Conflict and Abuse in relationship to social service providers. 29 $0.58 Add
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An Economy of Fair Trade and Right Relations

An Economy of Fair Trade and Right Relations

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

Common cause projects can at the same time tackle the global and local activist divide, bringing members of national and international groups together with local, grounded activists. 14 $1.40 Add
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An Historical Frame for Current Activism

An Historical Frame for Current Activism

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

If we want to come home to the Earth, reviving our sense of connection to it, we must first come home to ourselves, healing our relationship with ourselves, and those around us. 9 $0.90 Add
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Arenas, Libraries and parking Garages

Arenas, Libraries and parking Garages

Downtown Development in the Seventies

From: Their Town

Hamilton, ON. 1970s. Public Buildings. Development of the downtown Business over other People. 12 $1.20 Add
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At an Impasse

At an Impasse

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

This chapter covers the author’s struggle of feeling lost and directionless, trying to find meaning and focus in searching for answers. It also talks about her decision to search for her … 4 $0.40 Add
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Campus Parking and the Car as a Third Place

Campus Parking and the Car as a Third Place

Asphalt Grievances and Commuter Sociability

From: Degrees of Failure

Using the examples of three Canadian schools, this chapter demonstrates how issues concerning the automobile, especially both the lack and expansion of on-campus parking, have become major policy … 13 $1.30 Add
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Capacity Building #1

Capacity Building #1

Healing and Connecting with Our Selves

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

"The more I’m securely connected to myself. The more I can risk connecting with others, getting involved in the Gabriola Commons, committing to endless meetings of the Covenant Team. … 6 $0.60 Add
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Capacity Building #2

Capacity Building #2

Healing, Habitats, and Reconnecting with Nature

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

At its simplist, a commons is a habitat of interrelationships bound by mutuality: mutual obligation and mutual sef-interest and also, hopefully, affinity. 8 $0.80 Add
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Capacity Building #3

Capacity Building #3

Ecoliteracy and Knowing through Implicated Participaton

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

The essential thing in people, especially kids, becoming ecoliterate is creating opportunities for ongoing participation in particular local habitats. 10 $1.00 Add
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Capacity Building #4

Capacity Building #4

Commoning Knowledge and Knowledge Commons

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

The author suggests that learning and knowledge flow from attentive participation, with the senses wide open, and possibly the heart as well. 8 $0.80 Add
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Capacity Building #5

Capacity Building #5

Commons Organizing and the Common Good

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

Staying implicated in the common good and the good of the commons and community is a big part of reclaiming the commons, though not all of it. 12 $1.20 Add
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Capacity Building #6

Capacity Building #6

A Spirit Dialogue, Reconnecting with Creation

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

Patterning won’t emerge by just wishing or waiting for its emergence. It requires action, behaviour-changing, consciousness-changing action at every level from the personal to the … 10 $1.00 Add