Communities
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They have to begin to play their role in terms of serving the
communities
which actually sustain them.
And the point I'm making here is that companies like yours, companies like mine have to define a purpose which embraces responsibility and understands that we have to play our part in the
communities
in which we operate.
This bat colony is organized in two different
communities
which cannot be predicted from the daily fission-fusion dynamics.
Even more interesting, in fact: Every year, around October, the colony splits up, and all bats hibernate separately, but year after year, when the bats come together again in the spring, the
communities
stay the same.
The next spring, it didn't form two
communities
like every year, which may have led the whole colony to die because it had become too small.
I was proud to be part of that work, and it changed the laws and it put millions of dollars into local
communities.
This is the wall, the border wall, that separates San Diego and Tijuana, Latin America and the United States, a physical emblem of exclusionary planning policies that have perpetuated the division of communities, jurisdictions and resources across the world.
So I've been arguing in the last years that, in fact, the slums of Tijuana can teach a lot to the sprawls of San Diego when it comes to socioeconomic sustainability, that we should pay attention and learn from the many migrant
communities
on both sides of this border wall so that we can translate their informal processes of urbanization.
I'm really just talking about the compendium of social practices of adaptation that enable many of these migrant
communities
to transgress imposed political and economic recipes of urbanization.
They truly perform as they transform through time and as
communities
negotiate the spaces and boundaries and resources.
They also taught me that similar to the migrant
communities
on both sides of the border, they engaged conflict itself as a creative tool, because they had to produce a process that enabled them to reorganize resources and the politics of the city.
And I'm thinking of how these modest alterations with space and with policy in many cities in the world, in primarily the urgency of a collective imagination as these
communities
reimagine their own forms of governance, social organization, and infrastructure, really is at the center of the new formation of democratic politics of the urban.
These are communities, and this is happening all over the world.
In the past century, flight connected our planet, in the next, it will reconnect our local communities, and I hope it will reconnect us to each other.
So when you give citizens a way to participate beyond attending a town hall meeting, cities can actually capture the capacity in their
communities
to do the business of government.
And we need industry structures that will accommodate very, very different motivations, from the amateur motivations of people in
communities
to maybe the social motivations of infrastructure built by governments, or, for that matter, cooperative institutions built by companies that are otherwise competing, because that is the only way that they can get to scale.
Whether it's the ruthless Mexican drugs cartel, the Zetas, who use anonymous companies to launder profits while their drugs-related violence is tearing
communities
apart across the Americas.
So we've been working for a few years with these local
communities
and clinicians to study what happens to the Hmong and Karen microbiomes when people move from refugee camps and villages in Thailand to the USA.
Well, this was an unbelievably ambitious idea, ambitious because
communities
had to approve those plans.
You know,
communities
can tell whether or not you understand their neighborhoods.
I became an incredibly geeky zoning expert, finding ways that zoning could address
communities'
concerns.
We need to work with the people in these
communities
and give them the resources and the tools that they need to solve their own problems.
Amy Smith: Some of the other things we're working on are ways to do low-cost water quality testing, so that
communities
can maintain their own water systems, know when they're working, know when they treat them, etc.
Almost a million people showed up, and people were so energized and excited by what had taken place, they went back to their own
communities
and started their own political and social organizations, further increasing the visibility of the movement.
We are in urban
communities
and rural communities,
communities
of color, immigrant communities, churches and mosques and synagogues.
Governments pay,
communities
pay, you pay, I pay.
In March 2017, the International Labour Organization issued a report which stated: "In tobacco-growing communities, child labor is rampant."
And most of those children are from the poorest
communities
on earth.
And then they had another novel idea: let's bring in world-class designers and let them go out into
communities
and make these beautiful gardens, and maybe they might not just be about food.
The time to speak up in support of all of those who peacefully challenge fundamentalism and terrorism in their own
communities
is now.
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