Category Archives: Community

Our communities need more music…always!

Posted on July 7, 2013 by MikeG

M-Bibe is a Seattle-based social enterprise connecting the community to local businesses, non-profit organizations, and musicians.  They are on Indiegogo right now to raise the resources necessary to expand their mission and vision.  The music is truly great, and if … Continue reading →

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What is home to you?

Posted on May 3, 2013 by MikeG

Housing and health care may be the right and left Achilles Heels of the US economy.  But there is a C word that could serve as the antidote to both of them: community.  It takes an engaged community to pool … Continue reading →

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Development at the Crossroads

Posted on December 16, 2012 by MikeG

Type in the words “Peace Corps Guilt” into a search engine, and you’ll find a post written by a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay.  Below that, you’ll see search results from people riffing on what she had to say, along … Continue reading →

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How are the people over there? My “Blog Action Day” Power of We post

Posted on October 15, 2012 by MikeG

In honor of this year’s Blog Action Day topic, the Power of We, I will share a story about a group of farmers in the village of Bani Goungu, a couple of kilometers south of my village, Tonkossare.  Back in … Continue reading →

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Putting it to practice: Learning Lights launches as a Fledgling

Posted on July 31, 2012 by MikeG

Hello readers, My travels around West Africa, community and affordable housing development work in the Pacific Northwest, and my studies in sustainable business have brought me to a new chapter.  Yesterday I started as a “Fledgling” in the conscious company … Continue reading →

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