Save Your City

How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

By: Diane Kalen-Sukra

Narrated by: Diane Kalen-Sukra

Toxic culture is eroding our sense of belonging, community and well-being. Our capacity to collaborate and innovate together is also being undermined by the rising incivility and divisiveness.

We need each other to address the complex challenges facing our cities and communities—from the infrastructure deficit to climate change, homelessness, mental health and addiction issues. To thrive, our local democracies depend on our ability to revive the art of living and working well together.

Save Your City author Diane Kalen-Sukra, MA, CMC empowers community leaders and citizens to be part of the solution. She demonstrates what's involved by taking listeners on a journey from Bullyville to Sustainaville, including an eye-opening visit to classical antiquity.

The successful journey includes a renaissance of civic values and civic education as vital to fostering the type of culture that can sustain us, our democracy, and our planet.

This updated and illustrated 5th Anniversary edition of Save Your City is back by popular demand and includes a poster Roadmap to Renewing Civic Culture, empowering civic leaders and engaged citizens with practical steps to take today.

WORKBOOK & RESOURCES: Available at SaveYourCity.ca

©2019 Diane Kalen-Sukra (P)2021 Diane Kalen-Sukra

Critic reviews

Save Your City is an inspired and powerful must-read. Our democracy is in peril and this book delivers the right message, by the right person, at the right time." — IRA BASEN, CBC Radio

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Didn't know it's a handbook for starting unions in all cities government! Title is misleading.

Brilliant and accessible!!!

Wow!

What an amazing journey back to reality. In this age, it’s so easy to forget the trajectory of human cultural development. Thank you for a poignant reminder that love is the true reality and that our disagreements and disputes should actually bring up together in solving problems.

I appreciate the wide variety of quotations, especially the less well known quotes from Dr. King. This is a handbook not just for elected officials and community leaders, but for us all.

This is a great guide on how to be a neighbor.

Excellent!!!