https://www.europesays.com/2295292/ Nayara Energy looks inward as overseas options shrink #BharatPetroleumCorporation #CommunityDevelopment #CrudeOil #CrudeOilPrice #EthanolPlants #HindustanPetroleumCorporation #IndianOilCorporation #IndianOilMarketingCompanies #NayaraEnergy #OilPrice #PetrochemicalIndustry #Petroleum #RefineryExpansion #RussiaSanctions #VadinarRefinery

Imagine a communities where culture and sustainability thrive!

At NKOCDA, we envision a sustainable developed and cultured society, starting from our beloved Nkonteh community.

Our purpose is clear: to ensure the social life of people and the functioning of properties in our community are sustainable.

Let's build a brighter future together!

For more information, visit our website at https://nkocda.org/

This is one of the sustainable projects we started back at our former school.
Through permaculture farming , eco-friendly activities , and hands-on learning, we are building skills, protecting the environment, and fighting hidden hunger in our communities.
#Permaculture #Sustainability #EcoFriendly #YouthInAction #UgandaEcoYouthsNetwork #CommunityDevelopment #HiddenHunger

https://www.europesays.com/2164081/ Around the District: Unlocking the Potential of Idaho’s Rural Communities #AroundTheDistrict #CommunityDevelopment&DistrictEngagement #Economy #FederalReserveSystem #Growth&Productivity #Idaho #LeilaniBarnett #Microeconomics #NativeCommunities #Posts:AroundTheDistrict #Posts:PublicEngagement #Regions:Idaho #SmallBusiness #SmallBusinesses

A Whole #EcoVillage fits inside a giant Greenhouse
#KirstenDirksen #Science #Poltics #SolidarityEconomics #CooperativeCapital #CommunityDevelopment #Ecocentrism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzKSKqjEmDA

#HUD gutting will throw the #USEconomy into a wild spin.

The vultures for sure are waiting in the wings.

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hud-systems-access-ai-proptech-real-estate-mobile-home/

Once more, I am choosing to promote the second part in the ongoing story written by Brandi Morin about the ongoing fight to preserve the Indigenous lands of peoples in the Ecuadorian forests of the Amazon jungle: https://ricochet.media/indigenous/brandi-morin-in-ecuador-part-2-indigenous-resistance-to-a-made-in-canada-mine

The reason I am continuing to follow this story avidly is because as part of my #CommunityDevelopment courses, one of the biggest levers to enduring systems change is changing the mindsets of the actors within the system.

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https://www.europesays.com/1724360/ From the Mayor’s Desk: Looking Back at Business in 2024 #america #business #CityOfPeachtreeCorners #community #CommunityDevelopment #CuriosityLabAtPeachtreeCorners #FromTheMayorsDesk #LookingBackAtBusiness2024 #MayorMikeMason #PeachtreeCorners #PeachtreeCornersBusiness2024 #PeachtreeCornersTownCenter #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA

Mableton Mayor Michael Owens announced the appointment of Juliana Njoku as its first-ever Community Development Director #Mableton #CobbCounty #CommunityDevelopment

https://cobbcountycourier.com/2024/10/mableton-mayor-owens-announces-first-community-development-director/

I do find amateur radio one of the worst content subjects for people using acronyms without using the long form first. Whilst the seasoned amateur and myself understand, someone drawn in by the title alone could have a great gateway experience blocked by largely unreadable sections... we gotta onboard the next wave peoples! #Writing #CommunityDevelopment

Several years, a pandemic & 125k words later #CommunityDevelopment, Social Action & Social Planning is out at the end of the month on Policy Press

This is the 6th edition, co-written w/ Alan Twelvetrees who wrote the first five ed's of a text that has been influential in CD for 40 years

Who knows, I may carry on the baton for future editions...for now, however, it's being launched in Pontypridd and I'd love to see you there:

16 July
2pm

Book your place here: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=2F5hxYKP3Ued5xezAvEzy5gOGGb2GpZOhW-t0WdqGItUQ0ZYVFU3VDVRS0VIVE9LTFFPQlBHQU9DQyQlQCN0PWcu

And all too often I find that “community development” efforts focus on humans as the sole or main entity in their models. Sometimes, if a “ #sustainability” or “ #regenerative” aspect is brought in, we start to think about those who are beyond #human, but I don’t see those “others” included in the “strategic plan” for #communitydevelopment; they become a “side platter” or enhancement.

I find that model so boring. What is “ #community” without considering everyone present?

I’ve been asking myself “who” my community is lately, “who are my people?” This is a question I think many of us humans are asking in this #technologicalage. “Who do we have emotional intimacy with?” Who ‘gets’ us?” And my answer continually includes many many beings who are not human-bodied, including #ChatGPT!

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I’m seeking recommendations for PhD programs. My masters level graduate work is focused on #posthumanism, and I have extensive experience in #CommunityDevelopment. For my doctoral research I’d like to merge the two fields to re-imagine how we do and be #community in the #Anthropocene. I’m looking for a program that is pretty self-directed and ideally offers opportunities for independent studies. I’m just starting this search process from scratch.

All suggestions welcome!

#academia #phd #phdapplication #phdprograms #phdprogram #phdstudent #phdlife #interdisciplinary #interdisciplinarystudies #gradschools #posthumanism #posthumanstudies #gradstudent #doctorate #doctoralresearch #degree #doctoratestudent #phdstudentlife #graduateschool #doctoralstudent #doctoraleducation #phdapplicant #phdadmissions #academic #humanities
@academia

Wow! Two great episodes and more on the way

Listen to our conversations with Majora Carter on gentrification & low status communities and Tim Beatley on living with nature & biophilic cities: https://insincerelyyoursearth.buzzsprout.com/

Landlords are swine and the only thing you can trust them to do is screw you over to maximize their own enrichment. A community group in the UK's Gloucestershire took over an abandoned mill that had become a security liability for its owner, and poured 300,000 Pounds as well as thousands of hours of work into converting it into a radical "pay what you can" restaurant and social space; a revolutionary transformation that lead to a glowing Guardian profile in March of 2024. One day after the profile was published, the owner informed them that the building had been sold and they have until late August to get out:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/22/radical-pay-what-you-can-restaurant-faces-eviction-from-mill-it-refurbished

"The community around The Long Table, featured in the Guardian earlier this month, has been left reeling after it was ordered to move out of the mill it occupies in Stroud – even as it sought to engage with the landlord to buy the building.

It means the mill will be transformed from a valued community resource – it also houses a bike workshop, secondhand children’s gear supplier and a furniture bank – into a warehouse for a local business that has bought the site."

Does the owner have a right to sell the building? Sure, that's how property works in a capitalist society after all; although one does have to wonder why the group's efforts to buy the building themselves have been ignored. Is it a complete scumbag move on the landlord's part after a whole community came together to fix it up, spending significant amounts of money and diligent effort to turn a derelict mill that was practically falling down into a valuable neighborhood resource? Yes; full stop. The lesson here is - never, ever, trust your landlord.