The cooperative communities of the past aren't all dead, and one of the surviving ones, as C. Don Jones writes, is working on solutions to save Mother Earth:

The new equipment produced by Hiwassee Products fits into its basic theology of community life. The promise is to cut down the time to heal depleted land. I can only think that Eberhard and Emmy Arnold, the founding family of the Bruderhof church communities, would be impressed. In their thinking, violence does not lead to healing or restoration. Healing is a gift. Violence done to the land causes the destruction of topsoil. Helping remove such wounds to the land, restores wholeness to the community that is topsoil.

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C. Don Jones is a Methodist pastor and recently elected chair of Knoxville DSA.

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