### community endeavor:

Economic development
* All economic development is associated with increased energy consumption.
* begins with developing skills and work habits in people
  - the change from traditional to innovative ways of thinking
* brings lucrative work to even the poorest of the poor.
* community endeavor.
* has important limitations
* implies an improvement in the economy of a local area or region.
* involves retaining existing businesses as well as attracting new enterprises.
* is about long-term growth
  - what investors perceive
  - an exercise in mutual cooperation for the common good
  - both a private and a public sector activity
  - concerned with overall business activity and jobs
  - critically related to research and graduate education
  - supposed to remove impediments to the improvement in women's status
  - synonymous with improvement in the quality of life
* is the basis on which foreign trade grows
  - corollary of growth
  - direct result of hard work, and the creation and transfer of knowledge
  - key to continued prosperity
  - lifeblood of any community
  - precursor to health
  - responsibility of both the public and private sector
  - sine qua non of the next millenium
  - truly individual empowerment through education
  - understood to be, at the very least, a rise in GDP per capita
  - workforce development
* long-term effort, based on sustainability.
* means growth.
* needs dependable water, as does agriculture.
* occurs in a global marketplace
  - when the income level and productive output of an area increase
* provides jobs.
* raises prices as well as incomes.
* refers to funding for all other purposes.
* requires that businesse s have access to land, capital and workers.
* takes places.
* version of natural development.

Community group
* are dynamic with people belonging to different groups that evolve over time
  - local organizations
* can increase family involvement in children's learning.

### community issue:

School violence
* All school violence begins with bullying.
* affects every aspect of a child's life.
* community issue.
* gauge of the regional crime situation.
* involves more than guns, knives, and gangs.
* is concentrated in large urban schools
  - less often physical abuse
* part of a larger societal problem.
* reflection of an increasingly violent society.
* social issue.

Community property
* Community properties are properties.
* is property acquired during the marriage.
* method for defining the ownership of property acquired during marriage
  - of co-ownership for married persons only
* refers to a form of property ownership between spouses.

### community responsibility:

Environmental protection
* community responsibility.
* global goal with no national boundaries.
* is about public health, an efficient economy, and a strong future
  - an economic issue as well as a quality of life issue
  - only one aspect of sustainable development
  - present in fiction as well as non-fictional literature
* major growth industry that creates new jobs.
* means chaining a dog in the yard.
* new theme that came to be at waste management.
* popular campaign all over the world.
* prohibits development on hillsides and in wetlands or riparian zones.
* represents the very essence of resource allocation and management.
* requires public responsibility for pollution.
* two-edged sword for nuclear power.