For the Lifestyle of Repair

The New Green Book

The third journal of Joy Repair. An homage to the green book of Asset-Based Community Development: calling out what is true, and naming the action that follows.

Each issue is published whole and read on its own. Choose an issue below.
A block party in the street, neighbors watching a girl dance under a canopy tent.
Neighbors of several households sharing a meal at one long green striped table in a backyard.
Three children resting together on a front porch swing in late afternoon light.
An outdoor concert at night, a crowd at folding tables in front of a lit stage.
Children eating pizza at a picnic table after a ball game while parents stand nearby.
JOY.The New Green BookORIGINAL ARTICLE · META MACRO SOCIAL WORKGOLDEN AUTISM &
THE CRUELTY OF CARELate Autism Diagnosis, Adaptation, and the Harm Carried by HelpingMarc McAleavey, MSW
Issue Four · Meta Macro Social Work · September 2026Current issue

Golden Autism & The Cruelty of Care

Late Autism Diagnosis, Adaptation, and the Harm Carried by Helping

  • The complete article, ten sections, word for word
  • Four propositions, marked apart from the evidence
  • Neurotypical abuse and the six levels of Meta Macro Social Work
  • Full references
Read Issue Four
The New Green Book, Intellectual Lifestyle. Issue Three, September 2026. Who Has the Right to Keep and Bear Intelligence? Cover photograph of an old law library reading room with a lamp over an open book.
Issue Three · Intellectual Lifestyle · September 2026

Who Has the Right to Keep and Bear Intelligence?

An investigation into the proposition that artificial intelligence should be protected by the Second Amendment.

  • Twelve parts, from the text of the Amendment to the deeper question
  • What an arm is: dictionaries, corpus evidence, militia statutes, privateers
  • Two red teams, argued at full strength
  • Where the right actually lives, with full sources
Read Issue Three
The New Green Book, For the Lifestyle of Repair. Issue Two, September 2026. What Grew While Learning Declined. Cover photograph of an empty classroom with rows of wooden desks.
Issue Two · September 2026

What Grew While Learning Declined

Thirty years of education reform, one honest correlation, and what would have to be true for me to be wrong.

  • The annotated report, reproduced word for word
  • Five editorial figures with sources
  • Indiana: vouchers, referendum sharing, and who decided
  • What would prove me wrong, stated in advance
Read Issue Two
The New Green Book, For the Lifestyle of Repair. Issue One, September 2026. Who Authors the Neighborhood? Cover photograph of a summer block party.
Issue One · September 2026

Who Authors the Neighborhood?

Employer headcount decides which employment protections attach to a job. In a sector built out of small organizations, that makes company size a civil rights variable.

  • The film, ten minutes, with full transcript
  • The Marion County Care Gap, figures with full brackets
  • Barriers to Work, the one page brief
  • Methods note, cautions, and the research package
Read Issue One
The New Green Book, Issue Zero, July 2026. Friendless Society: How Privatized Care Gamified Loneliness.
Issue Zero · July 2026

Friendless Society

How privatized care gamified loneliness, turned fragments into diagnoses, and taught institutions to mistake confidence for evidence.

  • Evidence Before Certainty, the complete report
  • Three evidence rooms, with figures at full resolution
  • The complete empirical analysis and tables
  • Joyography, a practice of repair
Read Issue Zero
© 2026 Marc McAleavey, MSW · The New Green Book · For the Lifestyle of Repair