Walk down any street in your neighbourhood. How do you feel as you walk along? Do you feel welcome or is it a closed shop? Structure influences behaviour. Just like the many ways to physically structure your office for collaboration, how we structure our personal property influences our relationship with our neighbours. We can structure […]
Restorative Justice: A community response when bad things happen
April 5, 2010 by · 9 Comments
Bad things happen. They did to Katy Hutchison on New Year’s Eve in 1997. Her husband Bob was beaten to death while checking on a party being thrown by their neighbour’s son. It happened in Squamish, a small town just north of Vancouver. A wall of silence grew up around the murder. It was four […]
The good farmer: An expert in relationships and sustainability
March 13, 2010 by · 6 Comments
There is a view of farmers that I believe seriously undervalues their value, in the bigger scheme of things. I’ve thought this for a long time. It goes back to my early years living on my late Dad’s farm. He grew crops and raised pigs for market. Yet; he was also a German Jewish intellectual, […]
