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A Gift is not a gift until it’s given

April 15, 2015
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A community can never own that which was created for them, in the same way that they own that which they create for themselves....

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What does Abundance mean, anyway? House of Cards

March 31, 2015
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Last week I received a great email from someone whom I find to be a terrifically deep thinker. They ask the most brilliant questions,...

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Democracy: lettuce leaves and assemblies

March 24, 2015
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There is a woman who lives in a neighbourhood in Chicago, who just loves lettuce. She also loves children. Each year she shows the...

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Aiming for Weightlessness

March 12, 2015
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The following blog has been written by Tom Dewar, Senior Associate at Nurture Development. Several weeks ago I had the great pleasure of being in the...

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The Eighth Storyline: losing the plot; finding community.

March 5, 2015
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There are those that say there are 7 basic plots or seven basic stories, apparently they are Orpheus, Achilles, Cinderella, Tristan and Isolde, Circe,...

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In Robert Burns Country: A Community’s a Community for A’ That.

February 26, 2015
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The following is a guest blog written by Jon Dawes. Jon is a graduate student in Community Development at Glasgow University and a participant in...

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In Praise of Medical Heretics & In Search of more

February 19, 2015
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About this time last year I was in Evanston with John McKnight. One of the things we did while I was there was play...

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One-Room School and Reclaiming Economic Sovereignty

February 11, 2015
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By Cormac Russell, John McKnight and Peter Block What does a one-room schoolhouse in Michigan have to do with Greece, Europe, Democracy and the now...

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Death is a community affair: Con Carey and the Twelve Apostles

February 3, 2015
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[caption id="attachment_742" align="alignright" width="143"] Con Carey[/caption] On Saturday April 1st 1978 in the Irish village of Brosna, Co. Kerry, a burial of a local man...

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For want of a neighbour Democracy was lost

January 27, 2015
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[caption id="attachment_728" align="alignright" width="260"] Image taken from http://www.lostcrafts.com/Blacksmith-61.html[/caption] Benjamin Franklin in The Way to Wealth (1758) wrote: For want of a nail the shoe was lost, 
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Question the Questionable Questions: Worklessness or Community abundance?

January 22, 2015
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Recently someone asked me this question: "how can you use Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) in communities to address a culture of worklessness?" Questions like this slip...

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Towards a life, not a service

January 12, 2015
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This week's post is a video blog. It's a recording of my presentation at the One Community Conference, convened by Aberdeen Council, (Self Directed...

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