Community
Jay Walljasper
Former New York mayor Ed Koch envisioned bicycles as vehicles for the future, and in 1980 created experimental bike lanes on 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan where riders were protected from speeding traffic by asphalt barriers. It was unlike anything most Americans had ever seen — and some people roared their disapproval. Within weeks, the bike lanes were gone.
April Doner
Last week, I drove with friends and colleagues from Indianapolis to Cincinnati to attend the three-day Connecting for Community (C4C) conference, “a powerful gathering of master and apprentice change agents and social entrepreneurs across sectors and communities, from around the world.”
Megan Sheldon
CINCINNATI - My time at Connecting for Community was powerful in the sense that it allowed me to shed my layers and connect with people instantly at a deep level. We were all there for the same reason, to create community. It also helped that I didn’t have to explain what I did or why I did it – everyone got it right away. It was a powerful three days, and while it was a rollercoaster of emotions, it was a safe place for my gentle soul to weep.
Community
Martin Langeveld stepped away from a 30-year career in the fast world of media about five years ago to what he describes as a rewarding and interesting experience working with a local farm and food group — what could be considered the slow lane.
Journalism
At the invitation of a City of Amsterdam team and Belgian news agency, Peter Pula of Axiom News met with a group in Europe in mid-May to share what the company has learned about what it’s come to call generative journalism.
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Feature: Biomimicry
Bioinspiration, biomimicry, biomimetics, biophilia. While there are various terms to describe it, the basic notion of nature as genius/genii with a seemingly infinite basket of solutions for our world's problem is a sexy topic these days. But can it be an economic game-changer?
Briefs
Residents of Anfield, a district of North Liverpool, London, will be writing and delivering a plan for their community’s future — as opposed to organizations and agencies doing so. They will seek to build on the strengths of their community, using a methodology called Appreciative Inquiry (AI), which a group of them has recently trained on. The next step is to engage conversations with as many people as possible — children, young people, pensioners, people on the street and business representatives. “What’s great about this community?” is the first question people will be asked. Read More
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A charter school in Nampa, Idaho is demonstrating leadership in the area of inclusion as it created a unique "unified" basketball team this year. The Patriots team is comprised of six Special Olympics athletes and seven non-Special Olympics athletes. The concept is all about inclusion on-and-off the court, says Shanna Endow of Special Olympics Idaho. More
A third annual summit on a phenomenon called Slow Living takes place in June in Vermont. Slow Living has been described as "a more reflective approach to answering how we live, work and play as human beings on a fragile Earth."
Editorial
With the United Nation’s (UN) International Year of the Co-operatives (IYC) 2012 just wrapping up, it’s hard to immediately discern the impact of the year. But for us, one thing rings loud and clear: IYC has built a global co-op movement whose strength is still being understood.
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