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January 3rd, 2010
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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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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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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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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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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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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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September 6th, 2009
Scott Merzbach of The Amherst Bulletin has written a piece on a San Francisco couple who are touring communities nation-wide, compiling footage and interviews for a new documentary on sustainable living.
A San Francisco couple's 12,000-mile bicycle tour around the country has connected them to a simpler life. It is also teaching them how to live a more sustainable lifestyle, a lesson they hope to spread via a feature-length documentary they are producing.
During their "bikepacking" journey, Mandy Creighton and Ryan Mlynarczyk are visiting more than 100 sustainable communities and co-ops, where they will be living and working alongside the residents, while also filming footage for a documentary titled "Within Reach."
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September 2nd, 2009
An article by Helen McArdle in Scotland's Sunday Herald describes plans for Owenstown, the first new town founded in Scotland for several decades. The community, based on cooperative principles, is named for Robert Owen, a visionary 19th century socialist who established the New Lanark Community in Scotland and New Harmony in the United States.
Dubbed a "model village for the 21st century", Owenstown is the first attempt by the Scottish charity, the Hometown Foundation, to set up a sustainable community built on the twin pillars of cooperative governance and ecological sensitivity.
The 2000-acre greenfield site purchased by Robert Durward, one of the foundation's four trustees, is expected eventually to support an "optimum" population of around 20,000, generating some 8000 jobs as it grows.
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August 24th, 2009
The Star, a major Malaysian newspaper, profiled EcoVillage at Ithaca in an online article this week, introducing readers to the ecovillage model and interviewing several community residents.
A 'village' in upstate New York shows that you can nurture community values and tread lightly on the planet without forgoing modern living.
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