| Environmental |
| Change-Making: |
| How to Cultivate Environmental Paradigm Shift |
| in Your Community |
Table of Contents |
Introduction A Special Introduction to Communities of Faith |
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| Chapter 1: What is Change-Making? Positive Action … All Hands On Deck … Toward Sustainability … Paradigm Shift |
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| Chapter 2: Why Make Change? Right Action … Future Generations … Human Rights and Social Justice … A Closer Connection with the Earth |
| Chapter 3: It Doesn’t Take Much Vision … Positive Outlook … Commitment … Understand How Cultural Change Happens |
| Chapter 4: Start Where You Are “The Environment” is All Around Us … Rediscovering Our Neighborhoods … ReLocalization |
| Chapter 5: Organizing Your Change-Making Group Create a Mission Statement … Cultivate from Within … Sustainable Design … The Art of Publicity … Make Good Stuff Happen … Change-Making Meetings … Building a Core … Come to the Edge |
| Chapter 6: It’s Easier in a Peer Group Create a Crowd of Like-Minded Others … Be a Living Example … An Ecosystem Outlook |
Chapter 7: Surround ’Em with Solutions |
| Chapter 8: True Course: Sustainability In Keeping with the Cycles of the Planet … The Transition Era … It’s All Interrelated … A Perma-Culture ... It Takes a Village … Use Sustainability as Your Yardstick … A Long-Term Investment |
| Chapter 9: How Do We Get There From Here? ReThinking "Normal" ... Those Old Patterns Don't Fit Anymore ... The Journey Ahead ... Adjusting Expectations ... Making Different Less Dangerous |
| Chapter 10: Success Shift Happens … Walk the Talk … Cross-pollination … A Field of Wildflowers … An Ongoing Process |
| Appendix 1: Change-Making “Lite” Greening Your Group Environmental Suggestions for Large Events |
Appendix 2: Change-Making Resources Many of these resources are now online here. |
| Environmental Change-Making will be published in 2008 by Cathedral Press. |
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| Details here. |
| page last updated Feb 2008 |
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