Community Development

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Arenas, Libraries and parking Garages

Downtown Development in the Seventies

From: Their Town

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Hamilton, ON. 1970s. Public Buildings. Development of the downtown Business over other People. 12 $1.20 Add
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Designing Group Projects

From: Common Threads

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When I am building a project I try to have entry points for all three (head, heart, hand) so that people can enter from whichever is their comfort zone: • Someone comes into the project … 12 $1.20 Add
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From Premodern Past to Digital Present

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

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The disappearance of commons across the globe pushes the author to act on her expriences in Scotland, throwing her support behind the Idle No More movement. 9 $0.90 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Housing and Community Development

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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Community development requires good urban design to foster connection and neighborliness, and programs, policies, and initiatives to encourage healthy human interaction, including safety, … 14 $1.40 Add
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Social Networks

Social Media and Online Organizing

From: Educating for Action

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This chapter provides guidelines for using social media for social change. The first section provides a brief overview of how social media impacts the contemporary world. The second section … 17 $1.70 Add
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The Consumer in a Changing Food System

From: Emergent Agriculture

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Profitability is determined in the market. Consumers must value products sufficiently to pay a price that exceeds the cost of production and transportation. Price is determined by myriad factors, … 15 $1.50 Add
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Green Waste Logistics, Funding and Public Park Partnership

From: Common Threads

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In order for projects described in this book to have happened, a strong relationship with municipal partners was required. Issues such as delivery, storage and material access have been hang-up … 30 $3.00 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Community Economic Development

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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Sustainable community economic development (CED) is a feasible, community-based alternative to the economy we are familiar with — an economy focused on growth rather than development, on … 20 $2.00 Add
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Reclaiming the Commons on Gabriola Isand

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

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The Gabriola commons is a community and community centre that exists only through the collective actions of the people. A loss of capacity building and a lot of healing will be required if such a … 10 $1.00 Add
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The Slow Money

From: Emergent Agriculture

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Slow Money argues for the diversion of capital from global markets to local markets – to farms, farmers’ markets, and restaurants within one’s own foodshed. Slow Money creates … 6 $0.60 Add
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Capacity Building #1

Healing and Connecting with Our Selves

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

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"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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CSA

From: Emergent Agriculture

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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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Capacity Building #2

Healing, Habitats, and Reconnecting with Nature

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

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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