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Joel Kotkin: “The New Localism” | WaPo
This trend toward what I call "the new localism" has been underway for some years, driven by changing demographics, new technologies and rising energy prices.
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Community-Based Forest Monitoring
We found that collaborative monitoring can lead to shared ecological understanding among diverse participants, build trust internally and credibility externally, foster social learning and community-building, and advance adaptive management.
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Energy Uncertainty and Community Resilience
Urban planners and policymakers will need to turn to more systems-informed approaches to community governance and development.
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David Bollier: Viral Spiral
The profusion of commons on the Internet may appear to be a spontaneous and natural development. In fact, it is a hard-won achievement.
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USAService.org
On January 19th we will take up President-elect Obama's call to service by creating the change we wish to see.
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Climate Adaptation for Resilient Communities
I explore the idea and practice of adaptation, while surveying a range of materials that have caught our attention.
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Agency and Community Resilience
The capacity of an individual or community to plan or initiate action is known as the exercise of agency.
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Local Lunch | Think Out Loud
According to a recent report, local lunch grants of about $66,000 dollars turned into more than $225,000 spent on local products.
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Collaborative Services | EMUDE
The Scenario of Collaborative Services indicates how, through local collaboration, mutual assistance, shared use we can reduce significantly each individual’s needs in terms of products and living space and optimize the use of equipment, reduce travel distances and, finally, lessen the impact of our daily lives on the environment.
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Thomas Linzey: Community Bill of Rights | Democracy Now
Corporations today have the same constitutional rights as you or I, but because of their wealth, of course, they can exercise those rights to a greater extent.
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Douglas Rushkoff: Life, Inc.
This is probably the first moment in the last couple of hundred years that we've had to re-build our society and our economy on principles that serve humanity - instead of killing life.
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The Promise and Challenge of Neighborhood Democracy
Democracy is increasingly global, but it may also be increasingly local.
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Ben Shneiderman: Civic Collaboration | Science
Technology-mediated civic participation, electronically enhanced collaboration, and download-verifiable open government are rebalancing the power structure in federal, state, and local governments.
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Sandy Heierbacher: Upgrading the Way We Do Politics | NCDD
Focus on building trust between citizens and government; scrap the typical “town hall meeting” format, and upgrade to higher-quality meeting formats.
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Peggy Holman: Journalism that Matters | Kosmos Journal
By adding “What’s possible now?” to the traditional five ‘Ws’ of journalism — who, what, when, where, why, and how — stories call forth hopes and aspirations.
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Mike McGrath: New Laboratories of Democracy
The social scientific data on structural changes in local government clearly show improvement in both the quality and quantity of civic engagement.
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Benjamin Barber: The Art of Public Space
In a word, public spaces are built, not natural; they are the result of constructive intervention rather than laissez-faire disinterest.
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Carolyn Lukensmeyer: Global Voices
Young people from around the globe called on world leaders to take radical measures against climate change at the Seal the Deal Global Town Hall, the largest-ever truly global youth town hall on climate change.
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What Jane Jacobs Can Teach Us About the Economy | Miller-McCune
Most know Jane Jacobs as the ultimate champion of cities, who stood up against neighborhood demolition and saw a vibrant ballet where others saw urban squalor. But three years since her death — and a year into a downturn marked by bailouts, foreclosures and sky-high unemployment — her economic vision has come into the spotlight.
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