Luis SuarezThree elements of Community Listening:
- How a group facilitates listening to the community members it serves
- How a group helps community members make sense of what it is learning
- How a group facilitates co-creating solutions with the community members it serves
For anyone interested in building, nurturing & sustaining communities, this blog post 👉🏻 https://jeffdmerrell.ghost.io/2026-community-listening-and-environmental-equity-in-evanston/ by @jeffdmerrell is a #MustRead
It's a long, meaty read but *totally* worth it!
2026: Community listening and environmental equity in Evanston
Note: This is a long post - much longer than I usually write. But it lays out the full current state of the work I am doing, and how I think about community listening, co-creating local solutions, and learning what those activities mean for environmental equity in my home city.
Jeff Merrell