The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods

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Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1609940814
ISBN-13
9781609940812
eBay Product ID (ePID)
127326061

Product Key Features

Book Title
Abundant Community : Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Development / General, General
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Social Science, Business & Economics
Author
John Mcknight, Peter Block
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.6 in
Item Weight
8.1 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
5.6 in

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The
Dewey Edition
22
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307.3/362
Table Of Content
Welcome Introduction The Elements of Satisfaction The Universal Properties Part One: The Shift from Citizen to Consumer Chapter 1: The Limits of Consumption Chapter 2: What Did We Lose and Where Did It Go? Chapter 3 : The Effects of Living in a Consumer World Part Two: Choosing a Satisfied Life Chapter 4: The Abundant Community Chapter 5: Community Abundance in Action Part Three: Creating Abundance Chapter 6: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods Chapter 7: The Power of Connectors Notes Resources Acknowledgments Index About the Authors
Synopsis
Sharing Our Gifts We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block show that we have the capacity to find real and sustainable satisfaction right in our neighborhood and community. This book reports on voluntary, self-organizing structures that focus on gifts and value hospitality, the welcoming of strangers. It shows how to reweave our social fabric, especially in our neighborhoods. In this way we collectively have enough to create a future that works for all. "This book challenges the conventional wisdom about what you and I can do as citizens to shape our future. It offers concrete examples of what citizens can do and have done by drawing on resources in their families and communities." --David Mathews, President, Kettering Foundation "This book is the basis for health and happiness in any society. A must-read." --Quentin Young, Chairman, Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, and former President, American Public Health Association "'What we need is here.' That line from a Wendell Berry poem sums up the theme that runs through this vital and timely book. This book is a treasure. And it can help us recover the treasures hidden in plain sight within and among us, renewing ourselves and our democracy as we go." --Parker J. Palmer, founder of the Center for Courage and Renewal and author of A Hidden Wholeness, Let Your Life Speak, and The Courage to Teach "Don't wait for a politician, scientist, infomercial, or lottery ticket to come to the rescue. Read this powerful book and help yourself, your neighbors, and your planet to satisfying and sustainable solutions found only in community." --Jim Diers, former Director, Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, and author of Neighbor Power, We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block show that we have the capacity to find real and sustainable satisfaction right in our neighborhood and community. This book reports on voluntary, self-organizing structures that focus on gifts and value hospitality, the welcoming of strangers. It shows how to reweave our social fabric, especially in our neighborhoods. In this way we collectively have enough to create a future that works for all.

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