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Despair is Not a Strategy: 15 principles of hope

March 15, 2017 TCWordpress Comments 0 comment

If you’re out there trying to change your neighborhood, community, city, country, or the world then this is for you. In moments when everything seems hopeless, read this to get your hope on. 1. Hope can co-exist with other feelings. Grief and hope can co-exist. Fear and hope can co-exist. Disappointment and hope can co-exist. Sadness and hope can co-exist. As poet Yehuda Amichai writes, “A man doesn’t have time in his life to have time for everything. He doesn’t…

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Karim Sulayman – I trust you

January 23, 2017 TCWordpress Comments 0 comment

“For me, one of the key things that needs to underpin our work and our movements over the next 4 years is empathy. According to Roman Krznaric in his book ‘Empathy: why it matters and how to get it’, empathy is: “The art of stepping imaginatively into the shoes of another person, understanding their feelings and perspectives, and using that understanding to guide your actions”. …it is clear the empathy needs to come from us. As does the rebuilding of…

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Inner Transition: an introduction

September 15, 2016 TCWordpress Comments 1 Comment

To me, getting to the heart of inner transition is about understanding our own dual nature: if we feel threatened we are likely to get in a mode of fleeing the scene, aggressively fighting for what we want or just freezing. But absent the feeling of threat we are calm, relaxed, loving and often generous. The prospect of having less fossil fuel or money to go round puts most people into threat mode. But in threat mode we are not…

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The Good Life? It’s Close to Home

February 15, 2016 TCWordpress Comments 0 comment

Rebuilding families and neighborhoods around the gifts each of us offers. Consumer society has put an end to the functional family. We normally think of consumerism as buying stuff we want but don’t need, but it runs deeper than that. The essential promise of consumerism is that all of what is fulfilling or needed in life can be purchased—from happiness to healing, from love to laughter, from raising a child to caring for someone at the end of life. What…

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Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.

October 12, 2015 TCWordpress Comments 0 comment

College students tell me they know how to look someone in the eye and type on their phones at the same time, their split attention undetected. These days, we feel less of a need to hide the fact that we are dividing our attention. In a 2015 study by the Pew Research Center, 89 percent of cellphone owners said they had used their phones during the last social gathering they attended. But they weren’t happy about it; 82 percent of…

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Tim Jackson: An Economic Reality Check

January 5, 2015 TCWordpress Comments 0 comment

As the world faces recession, climate change, inequity and more, Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start investing in our future.

16 Ways to Make Your Neighbourhood Safer, Greener and More Fun

August 25, 2014 TCWordpress Comments 0 comment

5. MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO A Community Renaissance is Easier Than you Think It doesn’t take much to start a Renaissance in your neighborhood. In fact, as Dave Marcucci discovered, a simple bench can do the trick. After attending a PPS (Project for Public Spaces) training course in 2005, Marcucci came away inspired by the idea that every neighborhood should have ten great places. He returned home to Mississauga, Ontario determined to make his house, which occupies a prime corner lot, one…

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How To Be More Than a Mindful Consumer

September 2, 2013 Karen Carriere Comments 0 comment

by Annie Leonard, YES Magazine, August 2013 Consumerism, even when it tries to embrace “sustainable” products, is a set of values that teaches us to define ourselves, communicate our identity, and seek meaning through acquisition of stuff, rather than through our values and activities and our community. Today we’re so steeped in consumer culture that we head to the mall even when our houses and garages are full. We suffer angst over the adequacy of our belongings and amass crushing…

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