The environmental crisis, greens and community development

The environmental crisis affects us all but, having a disproportionate effect on the poor and on the South, is a social issue. Community development should engage with green social thought and practice, as these could widen community development's understanding of our environment and of wellbeing to include the natural and built environment and to expand the repertoire of social enterprises and projects that could characterize a sustainable economy and convivial communities. Democracy tends to be a weak value in greenism, and community poorly conceptualized, so that community development, with its expertise in participation in building socially just communities, has much to offer environmentalist action.