Nine Traditions that Draw Us Together: How a Small Town Nurtures Community
The art of creating community spirit within mainstream towns and neighborhoods has much potential to change the world for the better.
The art of creating community spirit within mainstream towns and neighborhoods has much potential to change the world for the better.
The erosion of the commons by private interests is a disaster for modern human settlements; a community without shared spaces is barely a community at all.
For some neighbors, the logical leap from “glimpse of skin” to “nudist colony” is a surprisingly short one to make.
Only when we create a container that is loving enough and strong enough to embrace the erotic, do we create a container that is loving enough and strong enough to embrace all of Life itself.
A clearly articulated evolutionary purpose, a welcoming of the whole self, and governance through self-management are keys to collective success.
Permaculture’s 12 principles apply to human groups just as much as to any other ecological system.