**Pattern Name:**
One Million Neighborhoods
**Introduction:** Health and pollution both originate in particular places on this planet.
**Illustration:**
Earth at Night
**CONTEXT:**
If we assume that around 7,000 people could conceivably cooperate creatively, face-to-face, to manage their livelihoods then there would be about 1.1 million such settings. Thus the very rough "One Million Neighborhoods".
**PROBLEM:**
**Every neighborhood deserves a chance to survive without destroying others in the process.**
**Forces:** Consumerism Complacency Elitism Globalization Profiteering Corrumption
Collaborating Coordinating Cooperating Coo-designing Co-identifying
**THEREFORE (SOLUTION):**
**ReLocalize creatively at the neighborhood scale.**
**Actions:** Identify neighborhood activists and from conversational associations among them. We need a minimum of one activist in each neighborhood. "One Million Neighborhood Activists"
See the Systems that the neighborhood is and the systems that it could be.
**Consequences:** Geometric geographic spread of local capacity for creative problem solving at neighborhood scale.
**Known Uses:**
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