The Tamera Solar Village combines solar thermal and biogas technologies to create a kitchen that not only promotes responsible relationships to the earth and sky, but also builds human community.… More…
Category Archives: Sustainable Living
Reasons why Comfrey is perfect for permaculture
Comfrey is a fairly humble looking plant. It has large hairy green leaves and small bell-shaped flowers, typically colored either purple or white. However, what it may lack in striking appearances, it certainly makes up for in the myriad benefits it can give to a permaculture plot. Read the full article here.
Kindista: Technology for Living More Freely
Born of collaboration, an innovative technology helps build community by encouraging trust, appreciation, and giving from the heart.… More…
Technology on the Path to Reality: Snapshots from the Pre-Post-Digital Age
Misadventures with a cell phone help the author dial into more enduring, meaningful adventures and relationships not dependent on an electronic-communications hamster wheel.… More…
Back to Life: Returning from the Virtual to the Real
To shake our addiction to modern technology, we must understand its true costs. Stillwaters Sanctuary works to create a culture of greater connection, where it is easier to live without industrial society.… More…
“Appropriate” Technology and Community on the Path to Resiliency
At Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, efforts to foster a renaissance in land-based living go hand in hand with judicious use of modern design and communication technologies.… More…
Technology, Nature, and Community
How does modern technology affect our ecological and social literacy? Are computers and their kin suppressing or enhancing the awareness, skills, and qualities essential to our nature as humans?… More…
Seeing the Good in the World, Part II: Transformative Learning Experiences at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
While helping communitarians measure their progress toward sustainability goals, a college student finds herself unexpectedly changed.… More…
The Dirty Business of Growing a Cohousing Community Farm
A farm is not a clod of dirt; it is more like mud that slips through your hands, gets on your boots, and is tracked all through the community.… More…
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Wrestles with Growth
For an income-sharing group in Virginia, economic success presents challenges and opportunities.… More…
Business. Busy-ness. Coincidence?
Improving our relationships to work, money, and entrepreneurship can dramatically enhance our sense of community and quality of life.… More…
Opportunity Village Eugene: Pioneering New Solutions for the (Formerly) Homeless
An innovative self-governing village lifts spirits while modeling new ways to address homelessness.… More…
Who Builds the Houses?: Gender in Eco-Communities
A researcher finds that men still dominate building in eco-communities, and offers strategies to empower women.… More…
Energy Efficiency in Cohousing
Sustainability is embedded in community—even without a minus-$88-per-year electric bill.… More…
Going For the Grid
After three decades off-grid in Washington state, Walker Creek members decide on-grid living is more sustainable.… More…
Community Makes Renewable Energy Work
Living Energy Farm embodies the promise of renewable energy used cooperatively.… More…
Putting Our Lives on the Line
Jubilee Partners’ clothesline does more than dry clothes with solar power; it helps build community.… More…
Climate Changes
Intentional communities are in a unique position to respond to climate change.… More…
Sustainability Is a Life Style Not a Solar Panel
A 13-year-old indigenous environmental activist asks us to walk lightly and respect the Earth.… More…
Burlington Cohousing’s Excellent Solar Adventures
When community members want to place “private” panels on “public” roofs, don’t expect clear sailing.… More…
Confessions of a Fallen Eco-Warrior
A communitarian stops counting nanowatts, and starts counting blessings.… More…
Strangely Warmed
Home-scale geothermal in appropriate conditions promotes both community and energy savings.… More…
Achieving Affordability with Cohousing
Cohousing is intrinsically an affordable model; here’s why and how.… More…
Creating a Community of Homesteaders
A land trust with leaseholds keeps members’ costs down while allowing a combination of autonomy and connection.… More…
Self-Reliance, Right Livelihood, and Economic “Realities”
Life in a small rural ecovillage can mean embracing complex choices while balancing idealism with necessity.… More…
Cycling toward Sustainable Community
After 6,500 miles of pedaling and 100 community visits, a couple documents the promise of intentional community and cooperative living.… More…
Greening Your ’Hood
Kibbutzes, ecovillages, cohousing communities, and pocket neighborhoods offer us opportunities to make a new start.… More…
My Advice to Others Planning to Start an Ecovillage
An ecovillage founder offers 10 guidelines for success, including “Start with people.”… More…
Living the Questions
Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage grapples with obstacles to create a visionary housing project in rural Maine.… More…
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