Sustainable communities must weigh every change against community and local nature

Evidence

Always ask of any proposed change or innovation: What will this do to our community? How will this affect our common wealth? 2. Always include local nature—the land, the water, the air, the native creatures—within the membership of the community. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 399

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how to turn Berry’s two-step ‘ask and include’ into a repeatable classroom deliberation protocol for students evaluating local proposals.
• XREF: Feeds the place/land and storytelling threads across the polyad — a concrete conversion of theory into a usable decision heuristic. — connects to: The Amish practice controlled change by deliberatively testing innovations — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 639; Environmental education can alienate resource-dependent rural communities when it condemns local livelihoods. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education: Connecting…, 68; Sustainable communities never interfere with natural systems’ self-regeneration — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 123 (+2 more)
• ADDENDUM: Recalls the trees-as-infrastructure article’s concern for local nature within community membership — commonwealth framing overlaps with commons ecologies.

Broader Connections

• Eco-justice programs must be tailored to each community’s particular history and ecology #expands (0.85) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1835
• Sustainable economy requires ecology, human welfare, and spirit woven as one #corroborates (0.75) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 533