What Attaches People to their Communities?

What makes a community a desirable place to live? 

What draws people to stake their future in it? 

Are communities with more attached residents better off?

The Knight Soul of the Community project started in 2008 with these questions in mind.  Over 3 years they interviewed close to 43,000 people in 26 communities in the United States.  The study found that three main qualities attach people to place:

1. Social offerings, such as entertainment venues and places to meet, 
2. Openness (how welcoming a place is) 
3.  Aesthetics (its physical beauty and green spaces).

What is it that draws you to your community?

Southland's Love Affair with Coal

I am constantly amazed, that with the spectre of a large opencast mining operation setting up on our back doorstep, there has been very little commentary (read none) covering the less savoury aspects of Solid Energy's plans for Southland.

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Pike River: Family Support Fund

Its hard to even begin to imagine how the loss of these 29 men at the Pike River Coal Mine is affecting their community and families.  My thoughts - and those of the rest of New Zealand are with them.  

Please give generously.