Community Development

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Celebrations of Honor and Respect

Celebrations of Honor and Respect

From: Common Threads

This chapter explores developing events that are both environmentally aware and nurturing for humanity. 30 $3.00 Add
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How a Shelter Can Prevent Homelessness
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How a Shelter Can Prevent Homelessness

Prevention Services at the Old Brewery Mission106

From: Ending Homelessness in Canada

George Ohana’s Chapter on shelters looks at how current shelters can adapt and evolves to offer solutions to end homelessness instead of just treating the symptoms. By looking at policy, … 13 $1.30 Add
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The Namerind Story
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The Namerind Story

From: Ending Homelessness in Canada

Robert Byers’ Chapter 8 follows his story of creating Indigenous owned affordable housing. Through his company he has been able to provide Indigenous focused affordable housing for member … 10 $1.00 Add
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Our Culture Is Our Code
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Our Culture Is Our Code

How to Prevent Homelessness in the First Nation World

From: Ending Homelessness in Canada

In chapter 9 Michale rice talk s about his decades of experience working within his community and along side others to transform the way reserves are run, turning them from dependant to … 17 $1.70 Add
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Coming Home to the Sacred

Coming Home to the Sacred

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

Looking at the introduction of Christianity to the Picts in Scotland, comparing it to the ethos of Native American religions. 11 $1.10 Add
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Common-Good Governance Locally and Globally

Common-Good Governance Locally and Globally

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

There is a wealth of precedent out there to inspire a commoning movement, though not necessarily yet as scaled up, more polycentric levels. 12 $1.20 Add
Common Threads

Common Threads

Weaving Community through Collaborative Eco-Art

Common Threads is a unique guide to engaging community members in communal handwork for the greater good. Author Sharon Kallis provides a wealth of ideas for: * Working with unwanted natural … 283 View
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Common Threads

Common Threads

From: Common Threads

Weaving unmistakably weaves us all together regardless of what culture we come from. There are three kinds of woven cloth that can be found worldwide — everything comes back to tabby, twill … 12 $1.20 Add
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Community Engagement

Community Engagement

From: In The Business of Change

A lesson they’ve learned is the importance of creating opportunities for empowerment and sustenance for the people they’re trying to help. Giving away free items without being mindful … 16 $1.60 Add
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Community Wellbeing: A Social Framework for Domicide

Community Wellbeing: A Social Framework for Domicide

From: Resisting Eviction

Chapter 9 continues a chronological trajectory documenting the wider struggle and events unfolding around the redevelopment proposal for the neighbourhood. Crosby provides a window into the … 27 $2.70 Add
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Comon Knowledge and Knowledge Commons

Comon Knowledge and Knowledge Commons

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

Claiming our agency as participants in situations, communities, and habitats who become responsibly knowledgeable about them is a huge first step towards reclaiming the commons. 11 $1.10 Add
Conflict Is Not Abuse

Conflict Is Not Abuse

Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between … 304 View
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Crossing a Threshold

Crossing a Threshold

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

The author’s trip to Scotland, to her family’s ancestral roots in Tulliro. 4 $0.40 Add
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CSA

CSA

From: Emergent Agriculture

The Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model is transformative. It changes the way farmers farm, the way markets function, and the way consumers relate to the production chain. The CSA model … 5 $0.50 Add
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Demoviction 2018: Tenant Resistance to Domicide

Demoviction 2018: Tenant Resistance to Domicide

From: Resisting Eviction

Chapter 8 documents the second phase of demoviction in 2018 and the emergence of the Herongate Tenant Coalition to try and stop the evictions. Crosby explores a number of coalition tactics … 19 $1.90 Add