Sustainable Rural Community Development as Government Shrinks

Rural community developers need more than ever to conserve resources and work on what’s basic: sustaining the environment. Rural life and livelihood depend on it.

We need enlightened community developers to revamp the field’s rich traditions. While continuing to respond to community needs, they need to create grassroots support for self-interested green communities capable of maintaining an enduring good quality of life in troubling times of growing isolation, real and perceived.

By Timothy Collins

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