Most of The Great Remember is copyrighted and requires attribution if reused. The exception is the Community Sovereignty Guides, which are deliberately free for anyone to download, reprint, and share without restriction. The split is intentional, and the rules below explain why.
These are free for any individual, family, congregation, civic group, school, or community to download, print, copy, email, post, and distribute. No paywall, no sign-up, no copyright restriction. Modify them, translate them, host them on your own server, or run a community session from them. The information only matters if it moves.
Copyright © 2026 The Great Remember. All rights reserved. You may quote short passages, embed individual paragraphs, link to specific pages, and reference data points — but reproduction of full essays, tables, or page contents requires written permission and clear attribution.
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If you quote or reference copyrighted material from this site, please use this attribution format:
"…quoted text…" — The Great Remember, [page title], greatremember.com/[path]
Example: "…the dollar lost 97% of its purchasing power since 1913." — The Great Remember, "A House Cost 164 Ounces of Gold in 1913", greatremember.com/essays/house-in-gold/
The five Resilient Communities guides (and the underlying research document at /guides/community-resilience) are deliberately released without copyright. They are designed to be printed, shared, posted on community boards, taught at neighborhood meetings, run as study sessions at churches, and adapted by anyone for any context.
The reasoning: the loneliness epidemic and the erosion of community resilience are collective problems with collective solutions. Information that requires permission to share is information that doesn't move at the speed it needs to. The guides are most valuable when they spread freely — and we'd rather see them adapted, translated, and remixed by anyone working on this problem than monetized.
If you want to formally credit the source when you reproduce a guide, "Adapted from the Community Sovereignty Series, The Great Remember (greatremember.com/guides)" is appreciated but not required.
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This policy was last updated 1 May 2026. We may revise it as the site grows; the live version at /terms/ is the authoritative one.
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