One of the reasons why we’re featuring “recipes” in the book is that many communities need a jump start in creativity. It’s not that they lack the ability to be creative. It’s that their individual and collective capacity for creativity has been hidden beneath a problem orientation to everything and everyone.
Each recipe suggests new combinations of gifts, assets, and opportunities. Like combining a local company work team, a group of seniors, a small flock of grade schoolers, a master gardener, and a vacant property the city is willing to sell for a dollar.
Recipes are essential for reminding people of their innate neurophysiological capacity to make random and new connections that lead to social innovations.
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