Designing and building a sustainable community must be build upon a values system that is sustainable because all decision-making is based on values of choosing according to those values. The values that have sustained our species for over 250,000 years would be a good place to start: the search for a better quality of life, of growth, to grow into our innate potential and do to so equally as any other person would or could. The best place to start is in your community using a Socially Sustainable Design Team Process and Schematic that guides the Team to sustainable social policies,...

Poverty As My Teacher describes the birth of the initiative: Leading the Way Out of Global Poverty(R) with Sustainable Family Communities(R) which are designed with the economic and social/cultural factors necessary to be repeatable, sustainable and scalable.

This is an initiative that can truly eradicate poverty, one Community at a time, as opposed to what most projects do - provide some help to people who continue to live in poverty (Yes, clean water, sanitation, etc. are needed, but do not eliminate poverty).

At the core is a commercial business that...