In June 1968, eight people from the United States traveled to Israel for the purpose of studying agricultural cooperatives on leased land. Their hope was that something similar might be applied in the rural South to improve the condition of…
After Gandhi was assassinated in 1948, political leadership of his movement fell to Nehru. Spiritual leadership fell to Vinoba Bhava. Gandhi’s “constructive program” for post-colonial India had envisioned a decentralized society, built on the basis of autonomous, self-reliant villages. Gandhi…
In 1898, a self-educated Englishman named Ebenezer Howard, who had been influenced by the writings of Edward Bellamy and Henry George, published Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. Revised and re-issued in 1902 under a new title, Garden Cities of To-Morrow,…
Outside the United States, the notion of treating land differently than what is built on it – a principle at the heart of the modern-day community land trust – has a long and noble pedigree. Land has been viewed by…
