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		<title>When Renters Can Earn Equity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Renter equity changes everything. It means wealth creation for low income people. And because it operates on small scale, instead of in 150-unit developments, banks and money are uninterested. This is the common good at work.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>The Neighborhood Is the Center</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transcription of John and Peter's August 4, 2020 Conversation with DeAmon Harges, the original “Roving Listener” of the Broadway United Methodist Church in Indianapolis and one of the most influential neighborhood organizers on the ground today, according to the Kettering Foundation.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Coming to the Stage</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indianapolis poet and performer Januarie York read this work to open and close John and Peter's August 4 Conversation with DeAmon Harges.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Strong Neighborhood Project</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neighbor to neighbor, block by block. That's the approach the Strong Neighborhood Project is taking in connecting people to one another and other resources available to them in Central Louisiana.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Libraries and Leaders as Creators of Community</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Explores the methodology for building community based on Peter's book Community: The Structure of Belonging, which assumes that the conventional ways societies realize change are flawed because they fail increasingly large numbers of our citizens, despite our collective efforts to double down on what is not working for most of us]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Becoming Trustworthy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our small towns and neighborhoods, there is usually a nearly invisible trustfulness that allows the residents to collectively do the necessary work of producing community well-being. This citizen production is the foundation of our democracy — powered by trust.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Small Acts of Bravery, Caring and Connection</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allies in Caring, a non-profit organization in Hammonton, NJ, dedicated to helping Latino and underserved communities, believes small acts of bravery, caring and connection will heal the pain of the pandemic and weave the future they want.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Rekindling Democracy: A Professional&#39;s Guide to Working in Citizen Space</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our work in citizen space, we must cheer on and stand shoulder to shoulder with civic and institutional leaders to ensure an authentic and effective shift from institution-centric, top-down approaches to more citizen-centered, bottom-up approaches to living more satisfying lives.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Ownership in a Future That Works for All</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Ownership in A Future That Works for All, Living Economies founder and president David Korten talked with John, Peter and 200+ social innovators about about how our common future depends on a New Economy in which the power and responsibilities of ownership of the means of living are distributed equitably among the people who depend on them.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Forget</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The poem Daniel Hughes read to open John and Peter's June 16, 2020 Conversation with David Korten: A Future That Works for All.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>I am US</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Hughes poem read during John and Peter's June 16, 2020 Conversation with David Korten: A Future That Works for All.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>I&#39;ll Pick Up the Check</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poem read by Daniel Hughes to close John and Peter's June 16, 2020 Conversation with David Korten: 
Ownership in a Future That Works for All.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>The Base of Powerful Movements</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this time when the American crisis has become nationally visible, a movement has emerged. Its manifestation is visible on streets across the country. Suddenly, the discussion is about the future. What are the right demands? How should they be implemented?]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>A New Economy: The System</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our choice of our common future turns on the economy, the system of institutions through which we relate to one another and Earth to obtain our means of living. The old economy fails to fulfill its essential function. To change the outcome, change the system. Ownership is key.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Wellbeing versus GDP</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his essay as part of the International Science Council's Rearticulation of Human Development project, David asks: Is humanity’s defining economic goal to grow GDP or to secure the wellbeing of people and the living Earth?]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>A Conversation with John McKnight, Founder of the Asset&#45;Based Community Development Institute</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most associative life, John suggests in his interview with National Civic Review contributing editor Albert Dzur, is built around groups of people who come together because they have an affinity. Their focus is less often on “what to do” than “how to do it.”]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>The Power of Disability</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Community organizer, social entrepreneur, parent activist and author of four books, Al Etmanski talks with John and Peter and 170+ social innovators about how to make change in the world. In his latest book, The Power of Disability: 10 Lessons for Surviving, Thriving and Changing the World, Al takes us on a journey into a world of possibility and provides practical advice for navigating the turbulent times we find ourselves in.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>The Disability Advantage</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The experience of disability gives us a story that celebrates our deep connections to each other and to the earth—a story that reminds us that none of us get where we are going on our own and that success doesn’t come from rising above but by rising with.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>The Invisible Is Becoming Visible</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The COVID-19 virus has a side effect that has made visible across North America our greatest community-building assets: our neighbors!]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Roundup: Community at Work</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How families, neighbors and friends around the globe are sharing and caring for one another in the COVID-19 environment.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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