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How to Design a Neighbourhood for Happiness
Biology is destiny, declared Sigmund Freud.
But if Freud were around today, he might say “design is destiny”—especially after taking a stroll through most American cities.
The way we design our communities plays a huge role in how we experience our lives. Neighbourhoods built without sidewalks, for instance, mean that people walk less and therefore experience fewer spontaneous encounters, which is what instills a spirit of community to a place.
Time to Grow Our Souls
The world’s eyes are on the escalating struggle to defend the collective bargaining rights of Wisconsin public workers. Some people have even called the growing mobilization a transformational movement.
But transformational organizing takes more than growing numbers.
CHANGECAMP: A network dedicated to community transformation
I believe that much of what causes us to gather around the word “Change” from such diverse walks of life comes from the reality of the world in which we find ourselves. Our problems are outstripping our capabilities to solve them.
Profile of Jeff Gold from the ecovillage Whole Village
“Don’t worry about me. I’ve got lots of people here offering to help me out,” environmentalist-communitarian Jeff Gold says, reassuring a friend over the phone…
Kimbercote Farm’s Earth Day event inspires community building
It’s a balmy spring Friday afternoon, I’m sitting on the hood of my car getting reacquainted with the sun as I wait to pick up…
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