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INFRASTRUCTURE OF A COMMUNITY
needs integrity to a vision/goal, sincerity of purpose and cooperation to survive.
Life itself moves from birth to rebirth, relationship to relationship, perception to perception, natural talent to workable skill. From the tiniest creatures that help maintain the soil that grows our food, to the work that people do to maintain a healthy life and relationships that build a community. Within the structure of the family, we can all see how diversity can work together to bring about a union of family unity. As each individual works their special skill to reach a goal, a new vision comes into place for the larger family of community toward a city and to state and nation.
All are connected in the web of life, but when we disconnect certain areas that keep the foundation strong; then the whole begins to crumble, and we begin to see how people become disconnected and find themselves out on a limb on the edge. It is this fringe element, another "branch" of society that we found a wealth of information and needed understanding. For in all their disparity and needs lies the constructive work for maintaining the infrastructure of a community, whether it be the family unit, neighborhood community, or city at large. The needs of one become the needs of many, which should bring the creative outlets for employable skills to address those needs. As an individual needs, so does the community.
Can we answer those needs creatively between us without a Corporate Hierarchy waiting to consume us?
What is a sustainable community? Visit an Intentional Community
Growing up in a small community in the 1950s, we watched a town build from the agriculture that surrounded us, into the necessities for our family living; i.e., clothes shops (sometimes styles that were locally made), drug stores for personal and health items, beauty/barber shop, bank, gas station, restaurants, theater, police and fire services, community center for meetings. More businesses grew from the needs that flowed from those businesses.
Finding ourselves in another small town, at its beginnings, it is interesting to see how the modern technologies have changed the how, and yet the needs are still the same. The little town of appx 1,000 (2006) is still surrounded by agriculture with the main streets in it named after the farmers who have sold off the land for the town to be built. It boasts a couple of store fronts; i.e., RealEstate, Tavern, 2 small markets, restaurant, refridgeration business, electrical business, farm machinery repair, grainery, gun shop, car/RV repair, metal fabrication, RV/Storage, Animal Supply manufacturer, to name just a few. And of course, City Hall, U.S. Post Office, small church and 2 very active block parks. As new housing developments go up, more people are moving into the community, and the number of home-based businesses has reached to around 35 in all.
It is the home-based businesses that are becoming our main focus for the coming year. It is our hope to work with all the businesses to start a Chamber of Commerce and try to interest the home-based businesses to join their efforts into a co-operative venture. With the price of land and taxes, it is very prohibitive for any small town creative endeavor to have its own store front on Main Street. So we look forward to working with them all to build each other's businesses and help all the creative leaders to work together in building a solid foundation for this growing small community.
As we continue to work in these areas, we will be writing up the progress and concerns of the building of this small community. When we traveled the U.S., we found literally hundreds of small towns that need vision and direction to rebuild their Main Street to bring back the community. These towns with empty store fronts either lost their patronage to the large malls and SuperStores, or their children moved into a city for more technological opportunities.
At Sustainable Life Info, we believe that small towns can again bring back their Main Streets and keep their children looking forward to working in their own hometown. We encourage people to take seriously the challenge to rebuild their small communities and to meet their neighbors and learn what they can do to bring back a sense of place that builds a community that uses everyone's skills and talents, and builds a place for their children's future.
See the 101 ways to work with youth and Senior Citizens to the right. It can be easy and fun. There's an unlimited amount of things to do to put your skills/interests to use>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Unsure of how to start or how you can get neighbors together? You can find some excellent resources with the Community Weavers. And if you are interested in joining this in the Wilsonville, Canby, Aurora-Donald, Woodburn area, please let us know so that we might join our efforts!
If you would like, we offer a discussion forum for bantering ideas; but we also offer some excellent learning tools*, one such tool are courses that teach what sustainable living in a small community means and how to go about organizing teams to effectively work together in creating a vision and working out the details. If you are interested in any of these ideas, please don't hesitate to contact us to get some ideas of how and where you can start in your small community.
*Most information will be forthcoming on this website, since we are just getting under way with this exciting project; please continue to check back for more information as it comes available.
The courses are provided by: NorthWestEarthInstitute and offered through Sustainable Life Info: $15.00 for 8 week learning/discussion session.
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Sustainable Life Info Copyright © 2006-2008 DLH Business Associates.
All rights reserved.
needs integrity to a vision/goal, sincerity of purpose and cooperation to survive.
Life itself moves from birth to rebirth, relationship to relationship, perception to perception, natural talent to workable skill. From the tiniest creatures that help maintain the soil that grows our food, to the work that people do to maintain a healthy life and relationships that build a community. Within the structure of the family, we can all see how diversity can work together to bring about a union of family unity. As each individual works their special skill to reach a goal, a new vision comes into place for the larger family of community toward a city and to state and nation.
All are connected in the web of life, but when we disconnect certain areas that keep the foundation strong; then the whole begins to crumble, and we begin to see how people become disconnected and find themselves out on a limb on the edge. It is this fringe element, another "branch" of society that we found a wealth of information and needed understanding. For in all their disparity and needs lies the constructive work for maintaining the infrastructure of a community, whether it be the family unit, neighborhood community, or city at large. The needs of one become the needs of many, which should bring the creative outlets for employable skills to address those needs. As an individual needs, so does the community.
Can we answer those needs creatively between us without a Corporate Hierarchy waiting to consume us?
What is a sustainable community? Visit an Intentional Community
Growing up in a small community in the 1950s, we watched a town build from the agriculture that surrounded us, into the necessities for our family living; i.e., clothes shops (sometimes styles that were locally made), drug stores for personal and health items, beauty/barber shop, bank, gas station, restaurants, theater, police and fire services, community center for meetings. More businesses grew from the needs that flowed from those businesses.
Finding ourselves in another small town, at its beginnings, it is interesting to see how the modern technologies have changed the how, and yet the needs are still the same. The little town of appx 1,000 (2006) is still surrounded by agriculture with the main streets in it named after the farmers who have sold off the land for the town to be built. It boasts a couple of store fronts; i.e., RealEstate, Tavern, 2 small markets, restaurant, refridgeration business, electrical business, farm machinery repair, grainery, gun shop, car/RV repair, metal fabrication, RV/Storage, Animal Supply manufacturer, to name just a few. And of course, City Hall, U.S. Post Office, small church and 2 very active block parks. As new housing developments go up, more people are moving into the community, and the number of home-based businesses has reached to around 35 in all.
It is the home-based businesses that are becoming our main focus for the coming year. It is our hope to work with all the businesses to start a Chamber of Commerce and try to interest the home-based businesses to join their efforts into a co-operative venture. With the price of land and taxes, it is very prohibitive for any small town creative endeavor to have its own store front on Main Street. So we look forward to working with them all to build each other's businesses and help all the creative leaders to work together in building a solid foundation for this growing small community.
As we continue to work in these areas, we will be writing up the progress and concerns of the building of this small community. When we traveled the U.S., we found literally hundreds of small towns that need vision and direction to rebuild their Main Street to bring back the community. These towns with empty store fronts either lost their patronage to the large malls and SuperStores, or their children moved into a city for more technological opportunities.
At Sustainable Life Info, we believe that small towns can again bring back their Main Streets and keep their children looking forward to working in their own hometown. We encourage people to take seriously the challenge to rebuild their small communities and to meet their neighbors and learn what they can do to bring back a sense of place that builds a community that uses everyone's skills and talents, and builds a place for their children's future.
See the 101 ways to work with youth and Senior Citizens to the right. It can be easy and fun. There's an unlimited amount of things to do to put your skills/interests to use>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Unsure of how to start or how you can get neighbors together? You can find some excellent resources with the Community Weavers. And if you are interested in joining this in the Wilsonville, Canby, Aurora-Donald, Woodburn area, please let us know so that we might join our efforts!
If you would like, we offer a discussion forum for bantering ideas; but we also offer some excellent learning tools*, one such tool are courses that teach what sustainable living in a small community means and how to go about organizing teams to effectively work together in creating a vision and working out the details. If you are interested in any of these ideas, please don't hesitate to contact us to get some ideas of how and where you can start in your small community.
*Most information will be forthcoming on this website, since we are just getting under way with this exciting project; please continue to check back for more information as it comes available.
The courses are provided by: NorthWestEarthInstitute and offered through Sustainable Life Info: $15.00 for 8 week learning/discussion session.
top of page
Sustainable Life Info Copyright © 2006-2008 DLH Business Associates.
All rights reserved.
Healthy Children,
Healthy Community:
"It takes a Village to raise a child."
Whether youth or Sr.Citizens, here are 101 things you can do with or for them :
Make a list of all the things they love
Encourage their future goals
Talk about the neighborhood
Learn how something works
Take them to the library
Take a bike ride
Chaperone a dance
Be a camp counselor
Teach a class
Mentor
Help out with school-based activities
Teach car repair
Teach cooking
Teach sewing
Join an activist group
Teach letter writing
Teach photography
Teach driving
Put on a play
Learn to dance
Ride a horse
Teach a computer program
Organize charity/activist fundraiser
Go sledding or skiing
Start a book club
Provide a ride
Do a soap-box derby
Go to the zoo
Build a web site
Go camping
Go to a park
Learn another language
See a musical
Ride a rollercoaster
Cultivate a garden
Help write an essay
Take a youth to your work
Go to the planetarium
Hug a tree
Start a collection
Do yoga
Assist with homework
Build a tree fort
Go canoeing
Visit a Museum
Have a bake sale for community project
Go to a sporting event
Plant a tree
Paint a picture
Visit a national monument
Learn origami
Discover a new place together
Visit the elderly
Go to a concert
Organize a neighborhood clean-up day
Grow flowers
Sail a boat
Play Music
Plan a scavenger hunt
Go fishing
Have a car wash in the neighborhood
Go ice skating
Go to the beach
Teach good nutrition
Go for a boat ride
Have a party
Go indoor rock climbing
Fly a kite
Juggle
Sing a song
Read poetry
Watch a classic movie
Play checkers or chess
Practice an instrument
Make jewelry
Do a crossword puzzle
Play cards
Play a sport
Lift weights
Draw a picture
Go to the pet store
Go rollerblading
Play a video game
Have a birthday party
Play catch
Go swimming
Take an aerobics class
Do ceramics
Paint a mural
Coach a team
Build a birdhouse
Put on a puppet show
Do an arts and crafts project
Play table tennis
Teach a magic trick
Build a snowman
Go to a car show
Create a photo album
Share old pictures from your youth
Teach the value of money
Discuss each other's heroes
(Source: www.weinviteyou.org)
Healthy Community:
"It takes a Village to raise a child."
Whether youth or Sr.Citizens, here are 101 things you can do with or for them :
Make a list of all the things they love
Encourage their future goals
Talk about the neighborhood
Learn how something works
Take them to the library
Take a bike ride
Chaperone a dance
Be a camp counselor
Teach a class
Mentor
Help out with school-based activities
Teach car repair
Teach cooking
Teach sewing
Join an activist group
Teach letter writing
Teach photography
Teach driving
Put on a play
Learn to dance
Ride a horse
Teach a computer program
Organize charity/activist fundraiser
Go sledding or skiing
Start a book club
Provide a ride
Do a soap-box derby
Go to the zoo
Build a web site
Go camping
Go to a park
Learn another language
See a musical
Ride a rollercoaster
Cultivate a garden
Help write an essay
Take a youth to your work
Go to the planetarium
Hug a tree
Start a collection
Do yoga
Assist with homework
Build a tree fort
Go canoeing
Visit a Museum
Have a bake sale for community project
Go to a sporting event
Plant a tree
Paint a picture
Visit a national monument
Learn origami
Discover a new place together
Visit the elderly
Go to a concert
Organize a neighborhood clean-up day
Grow flowers
Sail a boat
Play Music
Plan a scavenger hunt
Go fishing
Have a car wash in the neighborhood
Go ice skating
Go to the beach
Teach good nutrition
Go for a boat ride
Have a party
Go indoor rock climbing
Fly a kite
Juggle
Sing a song
Read poetry
Watch a classic movie
Play checkers or chess
Practice an instrument
Make jewelry
Do a crossword puzzle
Play cards
Play a sport
Lift weights
Draw a picture
Go to the pet store
Go rollerblading
Play a video game
Have a birthday party
Play catch
Go swimming
Take an aerobics class
Do ceramics
Paint a mural
Coach a team
Build a birdhouse
Put on a puppet show
Do an arts and crafts project
Play table tennis
Teach a magic trick
Build a snowman
Go to a car show
Create a photo album
Share old pictures from your youth
Teach the value of money
Discuss each other's heroes
(Source: www.weinviteyou.org)
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