A Day in the Life of Our Community In our community, contributionism means giving one hour of service — tending food, energy, or shared systems — and then turning to your passion. For me, that’s pottery: shaping bowls that carry the food we harvest. After lunch, I teach children to explore clay and discover their own passions. The afternoon brings meditation and yoga, and the evening flows into dinner, music, and stories. It’s a rhythm of freedom, creativity, and regenerative abundance woven into daily life.
Most NGOs fail the homeless not because they lack compassion, but because they rely on fragmented, top-down systems that overlook dignity, contribution, and long-term integration. This post explores why charity-based models fall short—and how regenerative, Ubuntu-style communities offer a scalable, empowering alternative for both the unhoused and the public.
A Post From the www.ubuntuplanet.org community connector Post back in 2016. I think it speaks volumes.
One Small Act - A Paradigm Shift in Human Interaction With the all the problems in the world, there is a shift in thinking starting to take root – a shift in the way humans interact. People are waking up to the fact that things are not working as well as they could. Some people feel overwhelmed by what is going on in the world and feel there is nothing they can do to change things. This might account for the rise in anxiety and depression, which could in turn stem from the feeling of lack of control or the hopeless feeling of not being able to change the world around them.
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine.