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Inspired by Rosemary Cooper, pp. 268-269, The Community Resilience Reader.

Community outdoor innovators are challenged by premillennial lack of potlatch cooperative investments paid-forward by ZeroZone invested WiseElders, Limited by Space for developing multifamily co-housing with cooperative community organic gardens. Limited by volunteer outdoor ego-eco therapeutic Time. Limited by competitive economic grid and profile assumptions for future WinLose evolutionary models composed of politically monoculturing patriarchal assumptions, not so much cooperative outdoor nurturing balance. Some local governments, not to Flagstaff any Portland names, provide cooperative ownership support by developing STAR restorative web platforms to profile cooperative PositivEnergy Democracy activities, Providing co-housing PotLatch Cafe with Garden grants, Connecting cooperative incubator innovators with relevant guild teams and PositivEnergy co-investors, pollinators, soil and soul enrichers... Shifting emphasis from indoor individual households to neighborhood-based outdoor gardening and edible landscaping and therapeutic open-air repair cafe behavioral change, Gratitude for mutual-gift WinWin opportunities to appropriate WuWei scale for community educational ego-eco balancing skill-set sharing. Local and individual Ego-governments long to bring neighborhood goods and cooperative services sharing to outdoor belonging potlatch economies, organic extending family awareness with natural spirited potential like polyculturing birds sharing nest feathers. Too few of us already belong to reused homes and gardens where library inventories are built by EcoSchool perpetual graduates greatly expanding and resiliently replicating other co-housed outdoor universities for deep learning neighborhood interns, guilds for growing healthier wealth together resiliently polypathically resonantly polyphonically. Too few urban gardens are surrounded by cooperatively-owned multifamily multicultural polyculturing nature as PositivEnergy buildings constructed deconstructed reconstructed. Housing and gardening composting together in close nutritional guild proximity easily sharing kitchen gadgets, gardening tools, food preservation, transportation, child and WiseElder cooperative care... Vertical and Horizontal Cooperative Outdoor-Indoor Organic Living incubation libraries with neighborhood cafe entertainment kitchens on the ground and garden floor, Fix-Us dining areas, afterdark aromatherapy enlightenment, organic co-invested nutritional enrichment. Entertainment by rose-oiled lamplight creation and destruction mutual story telling group and gospel singing and game boards where extending families face cooperatively together speaking with and against each allied other. Community gardens with cooperative neighborhood kitchen composting cafes supported by WinWin entertainment and exercise and dancing and singing parks and formerly vacant city lots now linking underutilized four-season space with educational nature-spirit PositivEnergy kitchens and gardens more nutritionally linking neighborhood strawbale and cob pizza and barbeque ovens feeding and growing volunteer community cooperative innovators. Such WinWin alternative incarnations could polyculturally optimal scale PositivEnergy network outcomes upstream and downstream from HereSpace as also NowTime. In rather too long summary, EcoHousing and Organic Gardening Neighborhoods are cooperatively and peacefully EcoSchool suited to provide healthier polypathic access needed for wider co-investment in private-public sector cooperative incubator PositivEnergy nurturing non-violent restorative justice and peace programs for outdoor and indoor climates of resiliently synergetic healthy wealth.

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