bottom-up empowerment

TRANSITION TOWNS: LOCAL SUSTAINABILITY FOR GLOBAL CHANGE

The Transition Town movement is an example of bottom-up empowerment, local community organization for global climate change. Political action and emotional growth and support are combined with conflict resolution skill training, so that Head, Heart, and Hands are all enlisted in common cause. Listening/Focusing Communities are one model of peer support that could be incorporated into Transition Towns.

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GRASSROOTS GREENING: PLANTING GROWS COMMUNITY

"The One Small Thing" method for Creative Edge Organization involves finding "one small thing" that people find easy to do as a first step in generating the involvement and empowerment that builds community in nieghborhoods and creativity in organizations. A "traffic calming" initiative in San Francisco leads to a green, walkable neighborhood, and, suddenly, there is a community where neighbors, schools, merchants all come together.

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