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Plenty Magazine has a short article on Eco Neighborhoods and urban ecology.

Back-to-the-landers have been making a comeback of sorts, what with the rise of the farmers’ markets and localvores and organic lettuce-obsessed gourmands. But the bucolic visions that once drove folks to isolated rural stretches to farm the earth have shifted, and urban farming is starting to be chic.

They specifically profile Pierson Street Ecohood.

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The Rocky Mountain News has an article on Senior Cohousing in Colorado, specifically featuring Silver Sage Cohousing.

The couple, in their 60s, looked at various homes here until an ad in a Boulder Senior Center newsletter led them to Silver Sage Village. The community, one of the first active-adult co-housing communities in the United States, is open to homeowners 50 and up.

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The  Bouldenewspaper, The Daily Camera, has an article on a cohousing resident who has authored a book on simple living called Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle.

However, unlike some of us, Wann really does walk the talk. As example, instead of lush Kentucky bluegrass, he has cultivated a front yard of strawberries and is known throughout his co-housing community as the go-to guy for any of your gardening questions.

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Indy Media of New Hampshire has a great article on a variety of communes in the Green Mountain area over the past few decades.

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Yes! magazine has an article on the intentional community, Emma Goldman Finishing School.

EGFS is an income-sharing household in Seattle and the article describes how EGFS members make do working under 30 hours per week per person.

EGFS is a member of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities (FEC) a nationwide network of income-sharing groups.

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P.S. Sorry for the lack of posts in the last few weeks. I was away for the holidays and sick with a cold and busy with community life!

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