Setting the Stage for Sustainabilty: A Citizen's HandbookAs humans, we make choices. With change as a constant, we are continually presented with a number of choices, and we must choose. The change represented by the divergence of humanity from the rest of the world is rapidly growing, and in need of transformation. Setting the Stage for Sustainable Community Development is a guide for that transformation, which can help to create a sense of "place" where it did not previously exist. This invaluable text looks at resolving environmental conflicts through a "transformative" rather than a "problem-solving" approach. The transformative approach emphasizes the capacity of facilitation for personal growth. The text analyzes good and bad institutionalized social patterns in an ecological sense. The authors believe that through positive thinking and the willingness to take risks, we can become creative forces in our communities and in the world. |
Contents
The Concept of Community | 11 |
Resolving Conflicts | 23 |
A Curriculum of Compassion and Justice | 29 |
Remember the Name of the Person to Whom You | 59 |
The Language of Common Economic Concepts | 83 |
23 | 89 |
Distribution Is the Key to Economic Sustainability | 109 |
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