What is a community? It certainly is not the typical metropolitan area with its decaying city center and high intensity suburban environment which promotes increased vehicular use and isolation of individuals inside their cars and homes.

So, what do you do to get people out of the cars and houses? Create places where they can share their talents and skills assisting one another building a better future; a future of safe communities focused on opportunities for life long learning and personal growth for themselves and the generations that will follow. Communities where we can get to know one another, warts and all, and really need one another to prosper.

That will require all communities, and the State bureaucracies, closely look at how land use is constrained by regulation and common practice; and begin serious work on providing a framework that will embrace the goals of safety, community, life long learning and personal growth.

Things such as "Cradle to Cradle" focus of commercial enterprise (change in tax code required), village mixed use and form based zoning versus the traditional divide and conquer approach used today (local governments, regional collaboration and State level support and encouragement), a return to neighborhood school buildings with a collaborative "Essential Schools" approach to education versus the mass production high efficiency dsyfunctional pattern we have used for 130 years. (School Districts become less parochial and curriculum hardened - involve the community in education)

Finally, a change is each of our mental models from the win - lose competitive pattern to a win - win approach that has a focus on the impact of what we do today seven generations from today.