creating - sustainable - communities

Let's begin with the title.
Creating sustainable communities says a good deal about the intention behind this book.
This is a book that anticipates that to achieve something that is sustainable there is a need to attend to both the relationships between the custodians, and a need to engage and nourish the imagination.
Community plays an important part therefore in establishing a tone for participation through the quality of relationships, the extent to which people feel that they have a voice and are capable of action as engaged citizens. This serves to define both the emancipatory possibility of community as a social movement, and ensures that there are fundamental principles of equity, social justice and most significantly ecological consciousness at the heart of the community venture.
Creativity is the dynamic that engages individuals and groups. It is a way of being that stimulates, inspires, designs, imagines and models our world.
Sustainable retreat, is the progression from a managed to a living systems understanding of reality. It is the fundamental framework within which we live our lives in collaboration with all other living beings on the planet.