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For a Resilient Future, Put Community First
For a Resilient Future, Put Community First Imagine a respite from the relentless torrent of bad news! Both The Transition Towns (Transition) and Intentional Communities movements facilitate secession, to varying degrees, from the exploitive culture that surrounds us, and build alternatives that are supported by broad networks. Now the two movements have joined together to share lessons learned about […]
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Community, Health and Enterprise
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Community, Health and Enterprise What are you doing every day to build community, health and productive enterprises? Every month I have wide-ranging conversations with three long-time collaborators: Gordon T. Long of Macro Analytics, Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity, and Drew Sample of The Sample Hour. I do dozens of interviews in the course […]
Top 10 Reasons to Read “Vermont Dollars, Vermont Sense
Top 10 Reasons to Read “Vermont Dollars, Vermont Sense This week marks the official publication of Post Carbon Institute’s first handbook on local investment, written by myself and Gwen Hallsmith. Vermont Dollars, Vermont Sense, builds on my 2012 book on local investment, Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street […]
We are all Greece
We are all Greece The cast of heroes and villains in Greece’s ongoing battle to save its economy varies depending on who’s telling the story. One simplified narrative depicts the German people as rich and callous overlords inflicting hardship on the downtrodden Greeks. The austerity measures they insist upon are essentially meant to punish the […]
Why Do We Ignore the Obvious?
Why Do We Ignore the Obvious? I have a hard time with people not being willing to recognize what’s obviously in front of their faces. It’s a voluntary mind game people play with themselves to justify whatever it is they think they want. This is massively exacerbated by an array of social engineering tactics, many […]
Collectivists Hate Individuality, Tribalism And ‘Fast And Furious 7′?
Collectivists Hate Individuality, Tribalism And ‘Fast And Furious 7′? Sometimes in the liberty movement — with discussions of potential collapse, war, revolution, social destabilization, etc. — it is easy to get so caught up in the peripheral conflict between the elites and the citizenry that we forget what the whole thing is really about. That […]
Becca Martenson: Building Community
Becca Martenson: Building Community How to increase the value of the relationships in your life As we often stress here on PeakProsperity.com, nearly none of us can expect to become completely self-sufficient. It’s the (very) rare individual who can successfully live as a true ‘lone wolf’ — and being honest, who would want to? That’s […]
SOLVING CRIME AND INEQUALITY, WITH A SEED
SOLVING CRIME AND INEQUALITY, WITH A SEED A sense of community itself goes a long way towards building the kind of trust and equality necessary for safer and more just communities. [1] Indeed, many of today’s social improvement programs, from arts to sports, to jobs, housing and political forums, are choosing to base their efforts […]
How ‘The Power to Convene’ can transform Transition
How ‘The Power to Convene’ can transform Transition I had seen it in lots of different places. I’d seen it in the 30 people who turned out to plant nut trees on a grey Sunday morning in Totnes. I’d seen it in Liege in Belgium, where representatives of many local organisations had come to an event […]
