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E-book Title: Making Community Work
Author: Simon Mitchell
Book Description: How important is community to you? Where you live, where you work, how you play and socialise? What does 'the future' mean to you?
This ebook shows you many ways to enhance and improve the strength of your communities - which may yet turn out to be a better investment for the future than 'saving money'. It records maverick social experiments that were applied in a small rural town over 23 years - and tells just what happened.
Find out things like:
how can I start a local currency?
what is a Credit Union?
what happens when an individual sets up their own Learning Centre?
what's it like chairing a Community Association?
what happens in a Community Centre?
what is a Healthy Living Centre
what is a sustainable context for modern local regeneration?
how can I get a Town Forum off the ground?
what are the problems and pitfalls in local politics?
- all from a person who has actually done these things!
There's lots here to help you get your communities together. This 62 page PDF ebook is just crammed with ideas and adventures about local community action and regeneration. There is success and heartbreak, positive action and personal assassination here in the gritty depths of social experiment and small town politics.
Co-operation is now a more important trait than competition on planet Earth, because the price of our continued 'competition' with each other as individuals, tribes, communities, states and nations, is the Earth itself - the very basis of our survival.
Consider this story:
Dante (or somebody like him) visits Hell. He finds a long table full of food, with the inmates seated around it. Instead of hands and arms they have ten foot chopsticks attached to their shoulders.
They spend all their time carefully picking up bits of food from the feast and lifting the sticks in an attempt to drop it into their hungry mouths - a form of eternal torture.
Later Dante visits heaven and finds exactly the same scenario, except for one small difference.
The people are feeding each other across the table.
OK this is an 'idealistic' story but in reality there is a great deal to be gained from working together, such as:
Free resources - you don't have to work so hard to earn so much when you can share resources in an organised way
Social integration and fun - get involved with other people in networks to improve conditions for everyone. A great deal of enjoyment is possible through local social interaction
Improved local services - communities working together can help to change local policies and widen possibilities
A future that you want - more and more government is handing down power to local communities to make their own plans - a new sort of town planning is already in evidence but it relies on your involvement
Our local communities are run-down by serving the interests of consumerism - where we all individually need to own as much as possible to keep it going. But now is just a great time to get involved in real 'participatory democracy'. Get organised now with your local communities and this makes a real 'safety net' for all sorts of unseen eventualities as well as a way to a sustainable future.
Its not our Governments who control the future - they seem to just increasingly 'paper over the cracks' in an un-representative reaction to immediate events, often making poor and unthought-out laws 'on the hoof'.
Even our Borough and Town Councils are swamped with just handling the day-to-day affairs.
The people actually making the future are you, and you, and you.
She is out there now - calling to you, and she needs your help.
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