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How to Cultivate in Your Local Community |
by Joanne Poyourow
with the Reverend Peter H. Rood, Jr. |
Table of Contents |
Introduction A Special Introduction to Communities of Faith |
| Read an excerpt from the introduction - download pdf (92KB) |
PART ONE: WHAT WE DO |
| Chapter 1: What is Change-Making? Positive Action … All Hands On Deck … Toward Sustainability … Paradigm Shift |
| Read Chapter 1 - download pdf (121KB) |
| Chapter 2: Why Make Change? Right Action … Future Generations … Human Rights and Social Justice … A Closer Connection with the Earth |
PART TWO: HOW WE DO IT |
| Chapter 3: It Doesn’t Take Much Vision … Positive Outlook … Commitment … Understand How Cultural Change Happens |
| Chapter 4: Start Where You Are “The Environment” is All Around Us … Rediscovering Our Neighborhoods … ReLocalization |
| Chapter 5: Change-Making Gatherings Cultivate from Within … Sustainable Design … Change-Making Meetings … Come to the Edge |
| Chapter 6: It’s Easier in a Peer Group Create a Crowd of Like-Minded Others … Be a Living Example … An Ecosystem Outlook |
| Chapter 7: Surround 'Em with Solutions Positive Environmental News … Reskilling Our Neighborhoods … What We Can Do: The 5Rs ... At Peace with in-Process ... Solutions from Within |
| Read excerpt from Chapter 7 - download pdf (17KB) |
PART THREE: WHERE WE'RE HEADED |
| Chapter 8: True Course: Sustainability In Keeping with the Cycles of the Planet … The Transition Era … It’s All Interrelated … A Perma-Culture ... It Takes a Village … Use Sustainability as Your Yardstick … A Long-Term Investment |
| excerpt from Chapter 8 coming soon |
| Chapter 9: How Do We Get There From Here? ReThinking "Normal" ... Those Old Patterns Don't Fit Anymore ... The Journey Ahead ... Adjusting Expectations ... Making Different Less Dangerous |
| Chapter 10: Success Shift Happens … Walk the Talk … Cross-pollination … A Field of Wildflowers … An Ongoing Process |
APPENDICES: IT'S YOUR TURN |
| Appendix 1: Change-Making “Lite” Greening Your Group Environmental Suggestions for Large Events |
| Appendix 2: Organizing Your Change-Making Group Create a Mission Statement … Make Good Stuff Happen … Build a Core … The Art of Publicity |
Appendix 3: Change-Making Resources
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Environmental Change-Making: How to Cultivate Lasting Change in Your Local Community, by Joanne Poyourow with the Reverend Peter H. Rood, Jr. Cathedral Center Press, December 2008. Buy the book here. |
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