Journal of a Grassroots Economist

Journal of a Grassroots Economist

Knowing a Village

A personal inquiry into how we have been learning to know living villages, landscapes, and ourselves through relationship, coherence, soil, and care

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Mar 30, 2026
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Love people and use things, not the other way around. - Alex (Yeshey) Cahana M.D.

In trying to know another being well, we encounter our own capacities and limits.

What follows is a way of seeing that has grown out of our experience of trying to listen more carefully to people, places, and living systems. We offer it not as a fixed method, but as a path o…

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Aude Peronne is a catalyzer and designer for positive systemic change in local communities worldwide, with a special expertise on ecosystem restoration, community development and the coordination of the commons
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