2022: Reframing the Future

Cornerstones of a Connected Future: Food, Peace, Work

A cornerstone is defined as something that is essential, indispensable, or basic to a system. It is the the chief foundation on which something is constructed or developed.

I wrote an article about the ‘Cornerstones of Community Wealth’ in March 2016, and updated it in January 2019. It focused on the three essential cornerstones anchoring sustainable community: Places of Earning, Places of Earning and Places of Faith…

Community Wealth is all the monetary and non-monetary capital (relationships, respect, trust, environmental, energy, knowledge, etc.) that create the basis of shared experiences leading to wisdom, empathy and community. It is these capital elements which transform a neighborhood from a collection of individual families sharing a ZIP code to a real community in which every member understands the purpose of Community is to produce the individual and mutual wellbeing of all the participants, in an ongoing way.

Although it can be difficult to measure the value of non-monetary wealth, it is not impossible. We can see and engage with these intangible elements of wealth whenever we enter our cornerstone community spaces: places of education, the corner store, and the spiritual centers, i.e., the mind, body and spirit of every community. ~ Cornerstones of Community Wealth

Over 100 years earlier, in 1900, Nikola Tesla described the three most important sources for…