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March 11th, 2010
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"We're all in this together" is the headline of a recent article in the Real Estate section of the TimesOnline that looks favorably on the rise in sustainable communities in the UK.
What do you share with your neighbours? A cup of sugar? A dividing wall? Despair over the way that your recycling boxes always seem to be thrown back over the hedge?
For a growing number of communities across Britain, the answer is much, much more. New communes, ranging from listed urban properties converted into self-contained flats with communal space to new-build eco-villages on rural smallholdings, are springing up, offering communal living with a contemporary twist.
Read the full article here.
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February 22nd, 2010
Thanks for responses to the recent post about Transition Towns in Australia. This is also a thriving movement in the United States, and we wanted to share this link for those further interested:
http://www.transitionus.org/welcome-transition-us
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molly
February 14th, 2010
Kim Jones, of the Sydney Morning Herald, advocates Transition Towns as a solution to suburban expansion and dwindling resources in Australia in a recent article.
The recent trend of Transition Towns, as a response to climate change and the energy crisis, highlights the importance of recognising the rural context when considering the issues of urban development. The movement...aims to reduce reliance on global sources of energy and food by sourcing needs from within a locality.
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molly
January 3rd, 2010
Green Building Press reports that the British Government is donating 350,000 pounds (more than $500,000 US dollars) to the Lammas ecovillage, based in Pembrokeshire, Wales, to build an educational community center that will introduce strategies for low-impact development to the public. The Lammas ecovillage was established due to a recent local planning initiative permitting small, sustainably-conscious communities to settle in the open countryside.
The grant is part of a UK government initiative in which 10 community projects from across the UK have been awarded up to £500,000 for pioneering carbon-reduction approaches. The Lammas project promises low-carbon lifestyles, carbon neutral housing and carbon positive livelihoods, with a projected net carbon sequestration rate of approximately 90 tonnes CO2 per year. The residents will source all their water, heating fuel and electricity from the land and will develop land-based micro-enterprises supplying food and craft to the locality.
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molly
December 11th, 2009
A recent article in Times Live explores "the green life" at Khula Dhamma eco-village in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
In a place where being able to use an iPod depends on the weather; your supper grows in the vegetable patch outside your window, and you're forced to know where your number one and two goes - life is anything but normal for city slickers. But this is what the people of Khuladhamma eco-village have chosen as their way of life.
They are following a growing trend of people who are creating communities that are in harmony with the environment and who hope to become self-sustaining.
Read the full article here.
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molly
December 7th, 2009
New York Magazine profiled Brooklyn Co-housing, the first co-housing community in New York City, in an in-depth article recently.
This is a level of group interaction that the co-housers haven't been able to find anywhere else in the city, and that they are betting other New Yorkers would enjoy, too. "There's this thing called community" says one member, "and whatever it is, it turns out people are willing to sacrifice a lot for it."
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molly
October 30th, 2009
Communal Living: Love thy Neighborhood, an article in the Guardian this week, describes the many advantages of co-housing/communal living and shares resources with individuals seeking community in the UK. Reporter Miles Brignall profiles the recently formed Lancaster Co-housing project.
Share your car, share childcare costs, share energy bills, but still enjoy the privacy of your own home. Welcome to the new age of communal living.
Read the full article here.
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molly
October 26th, 2009
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage is profiled in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch!
Residents of Missouri's Dancing Rabbit test the limits of green living
Missouri is home to more than 50 "intentional communities," a broad term that includes communes, co-housing, and student co-ops.
Ecovillages also fall under that umbrella, but what sets them apart is residents' dedication to an intensely green lifestyle. At Dancing Rabbit, for example, residents grow their own food, shun private vehicle ownership and live off the grid in homes powered by solar and wind energy generated on site...
Homes at Dancing Rabbit range from the modest - one resident lives in a renovated school bus named Aubergine - to more ornate straw bale homes complete with full kitchens.
Read the full article here.
And check out the companion video presentation here.
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molly
October 9th, 2009
A recent NY Times article profiles several urban households that are currently forming small collectives. FIC's Laird Schaub shares details about the recent surge in community.
JOHANNA BRONK wants to make communal vegetarian meals and keep chickens. Mariel Berger hopes for social, artistic and political collaborations. Harmony Hazard is into hula hooping, book groups and anarchism....The impetus for the group home or collective they hope to form is less about finances - though it is true that pooling resources yields better real estate - and more about community building.
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September 30th, 2009
Short videos of Dyssekilde Ecovillage were created by participants in THINK2 Climate Change, a 3-month international blogging competition organized by the European Journalism Centre, focused on the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
To launch the competition, bloggers were brought to Denmark and toured the 25 year old ecovillage, a pioneering example of sustainable community in Europe.
VIew two short videos below:
Dyssekilde Ecovillage in Denmark - Impressions
Dyssekilde Ecovillage: Interview with Birgitta Steen
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