 It's a growing network of schools, community centers, workshops, and businesses where energetic people − young and old − build on deep traditions of innovation and artistry to invent new futures for themselves and their communities. These communities can be found in rural, town, and city settings, but whatever their size, location, or resources, they
• Use what they have and what they value to ensure that young people have regular learning experiences about how to create and innovate.
• Involve schools and young people in community-wide explorations and celebrations of local traditions, arts, crafts, stories, heroes, and historic sites.
• Create curriculum that empowers students to become part of the process of rediscovering and making relevant to today's world the historic industries that once thrived locally or regionally, such as
• Sustainable fishing and lumbering to preserve natural resources
• New forms of wind and water driven energy
• Creative utilization of the expansive stone-working industry
• Re-discovered agriculture, foods, and cooking
• Fine arts and music for new generations
• Modern crafts that build on traditional techniques
• Digital technologies that keep people together
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