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From Backyard Lettuce to “Learning Garden” Sweet Potatoes

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Joan Horwitt’s first idea was to have Ashlawn Elementary School students, teachers and neighbors grow lettuce and greens at their homes and at the school in Arlington, VA. The former Arlington County teacher, school volunteer and Washington Post dining columnist...
Friends & Neighbors

Gambling on Community in Las Vegas, NV

Richard C. Harwood -
I was in Las Vegas where I discovered a community — once on top of the world — fighting to come back in the wake of the Great Recession. What people in Las Vegas are doing offers a vision of...
Stories

Inspirations for 2012 Community

Jan Bennett -
Every new year ushers in with it new goals and resolutions made with the intent of betterment for self and community. For those who need a bit of encouragement for 2012 goal setting, State of the Re:Union passes along...
Stories

Sweet Potatoes Newest Star of Lawns 2 Lettuce 4 Lunch

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Remember Lawns 2 Lettuce 4 Lunch, the Arlington, VA-area initiative founded by Joan Horwitt to promote home-grown healthy foods? It was sweet potatoes harvested by Ashlawn students that starred in Ashlawn Elementary School’s school lunch event in early November. The tubers...
Stories

Small Steps to Creating Community

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Check out Good Tree Village Cohousing's blog at http://goodtreevillage.org/2011/11/20/small-steps-to-creating-community/. A recent post features a 100 neighbors website and a story on neighbors who connected their yards to create an urban oasis as two small and effective ways of building community. Photo: Good Tree...
Stories

PlacerSustain: One Community’s Exploration of the Possibility of a Sustainable Future

Jeffrey Bordelon -
We are in the midst of a global transformative change in what it means to be a "Community," and in particular, a Sustainable Community. At the heart of this change is the growing recognition that personal, social, and cultural...
Stories

Wiser Together: Partnering Across Generations

Juanita Brown -
Tucked away in the small Appalachian community of Burnsville, North Carolina, is a family farm and a place of meeting that has recently become the new home base for Juanita Brown and David Isaacs, co-founders of the World Café....
Friends & Neighbors

The Value of Public Service

Randall Reid -
We find ourselves today as public sector leaders working in an era of dynamic global economics, stormy political discourse and facing yet another crisis in confidence in our public institutions. Memories of 9-11 sacrifices of public servants have faded...
Stories

What Is Enough?

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To set the stage for his 2012 budget message, Alachua County, FL Manager Randall Reid quotes Lao Tzu: “Great trouble comes from not knowing what is enough . . .” The challenge for citizens today, he says, is to decide...
Stories

Growing Community I: What, Why & How?

Laura Fulton -
For anyone interested in gardens as a context for fostering learning and interaction, the next three posts are guaranteed to provide you with inspiration and practical resources.   What are community gardens and where can they exist? As new sprouts push...
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Corporate Capture: Can We Find a Way Out?

This article, published originally by Nonprofit Quarterly, from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” The aircraft manufacturer Boeing,...
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