10 Stories of Transition in the US: Woodstock NY Transition’s Working Group Support
One of the biggest challenges faced by any Transition Initiative is that they are largely non-hierarchical, volunteer-based organizations.
conflict management
Gatekeeping
How do communities set the boundaries that define and protect their shared space?
The Soul of Community
People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.
~Wendell Berry~