As our virtual world grows bigger and bigger, our physical community often feels smaller and smaller. New parents feel isolated and alone, commuters sit for hours cocooned by their iPods, shoppers resent big box stores but have no other options, and entrepreneurs struggle to afford health insurance.
This blog aims to help urbanites create community - from babysitting cooperatives to jobshares to casual carpools to freelancer unions - by highlighting some of the best community creating projects out there, and explaining step by step how to replicate them locally.