Common Cause fosters values such as care for others & concern for nature through supportive framing and language
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Common Cause fosters values such as care for others & concern for nature through supportive framing and language
Because they believe in the contribution people can make, Citizen organisations adopt core processes that are designed to make those contributions possible. They are open and transparent; they show their working; and they invite participation at every available opportunity.
Brian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Values are ideas that guide us in action. In this, they are similar to plans, goals, fears, intentions, policies, etc, and the like. All these are ideas which guide us in action. Among these ideas, values alone concern the manner of our actions, rather than the consequences (as with plans, goals, and fears) or the mere fact of their performance (as... See more
Joe Edelman • Human Values
These fonts of meaning-making have a lot in common. They all transcend individual desires, they're oriented towards the interests of a group, and they're among the best ways to leave the world a better place than you found it. Relevant to our interests, they all demand a sacrifice of personal optionality on the altar of the collective good.
Richard Meadows • Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
Sharing some of the values held by citizens of these communities he writes: “They are people who take and hold a generous and neighborly view of self-preservation; they do not believe that they can survive and flourish by the rule of dog eat dog; they do not believe that they can succeed by defeating or destroying or selling or using up everything
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