Reader, The Abundant Community Make the Gifts Visible When we and the other neighbors know of each other’s gifts, new community possibilities emerge. For example, the community can play an important role in rearing children and helping them…
Reader, The Abundant Community This is Home Made Every community creates its own culture—the way the community members learn, through time, how to survive and prosper in a particular place. Displaced people lose their culture. But it is…
Reader, The Abundant Community What We Seeks Exists Around Us To some extent, each of us already participates in the neighborhood and community world. We belong to some organizations and know that more associations exist around us. We have our…
Reader, The Abundant Community We are Enough Making the shift requires only that we act as if each of us and all of us have all that is needed to break our habits of consumption and its…
Reader, The Abundant Community Competence is Within Reach The starting point in every transformation is to think differently. We have used the shorthand of contrasting the system way with the community way in order to characterize the shift.…