http://radicaltransitions.net An Intention Model for Building Community Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:17:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Carole Cohen reviews Instructions from the Cook and finds herself recalling a bunch of stuff, including the famous Jane Jacobs book The Death And Life of Great American Cities. Wow! It's a honor to be mentioned in the same post as Jacobs: Have you ever read a book that stays under ... http://radicaltransitions.net/carole-finds-herself-talking-to-other-people-in-the-neighborhood/ The beginning of a book review: During the arms race that dominated the 70’s and 80’s a friend of mine remarked something to the effect that “to accomplish change requires the intellectual ability to both accept that the situation is hopeless at the same time you believe it can be changed.” ... http://radicaltransitions.net/as-simple-as-stone-soup/ Thomas Mulready of CoolCleveland.com does a video interview with authors Jack Ricchiuto and George Nemeth. Here's the excerpt that accompanied the video in the newsletter: Jack Ricchiuto & George Nemeth, local community-builders, have teamed up to author a new book entitled Instructions from the Cook, a collection of creative recipes ... http://radicaltransitions.net/thomas-mulready-interview-instructions-authors-ricchiuto-and-nemeth/ There's a recipe in this story: Seeking Common Ground and the programs that operate under its umbrella are the embodiment of that dream. The programs include a community organic farm at Denome’s home on Hicks Road in South Bristol; a farm-to-cafeteria program that works with Ontario County Cornell Cooperative Extension, local ... http://radicaltransitions.net/creating-wealth-on-common-ground/ I'm gearing up for a new season of "strategic planning" projects with a new sense of what the process might mean when we're being intellectually honest with ourselves about the future. The truth about the future is that it's uncertain. It's uncertain because our knowledge is alway imperfect, because we're taking ... http://radicaltransitions.net/a-new-look-at-planning/ Jack writes on his blog regarding Instructions from The Cook: The start of AA was a small act realizing a big dream. Two men started by helping two other men toward recovery and today million of lives are transformed by the community they built. If you have examples you know of ... http://radicaltransitions.net/reaching-out-to-my-network/ In a conversation with friend and Radical Transitions recipe contributor, Linda Fabe, in Cincinnati last weekend, she inspired a possible distinction about the 4 conversations in the intentional mode we're working with. Since shadow conversations are the "old" conversations that divided communities, the 4 conversations are the "new" conversations designed ... http://radicaltransitions.net/new-oldshadow-conversations/ People continue to be amazed by the power of small acts as realizations of dreams. They're empowering antidotes to shadow conversations about scale and speed, which are postponements of small acts. The irony of these postponement conversations is that talk about scale and speed sound important and worthy of attention ... http://radicaltransitions.net/power-of-small-acts/ Rules of the garage • Believe you can change the world. • Work quickly, keep the tools unlocked, work whenever. • Know when to work alone and when to work together. • Share — tools, ideas. Trust your colleagues. • No politics. No bureaucracy. (These are ridiculous in a garage.) • The customer defines a job ... http://radicaltransitions.net/the-geopolitics-of-the-garage/ In light of many recent conversations, I'm now renaming some of the shadow conversations, particularly the "Consensus" conversation to the "Postponement" conversation. This is the conversation where we ask the question, "What permissions and agreements do we need?" It's the conversation of postponements of what's possible. http://radicaltransitions.net/renaming-shadow-conversations/