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Article in the Guardian describes community “renaissance” in the UK

Friday, 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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Missouri’s Dancing Rabbit featured in St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Monday, 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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NY Times brings attention to emerging collectives in urban centers

Friday, 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.

Read the full article here.

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Preparing for UN conference on climate change, international bloggers are focused on community

Wednesday, 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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Couple embark on a bike tour/documentary film project exploring Intentional Communities

Sunday, 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."

Read the full article here.

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Owenstown, a large-scale eco-village, is proposed in rural Scotland

Wednesday, 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.

Read the full article here.

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Profile of EcoVillage at Ithaca

Monday, 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.

Read full article here.

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Thriving Creative Community at Milepost 5 in Portland, Oregon

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

An article this week in The Oregonian describes the flourishing artistic community at Milepost 5.

When the Milepost 5 dream - a development where artists could work, and rent or buy affordable condos - took flight in 2007, Portland's condo market was still healthy. City leaders were getting serious about supporting the "creative class" considered essential to Portland's identity and economy. Milepost 5 represented an unprecedented marriage of private money and nonprofit idealism.

In the beginning, two buildings along Northeast 82nd Avenue were to be converted from their retirement-home origins into a utopia for artists who never dreamed of owning homes. In this "intentional community," residents would shape what Milepost 5 would become. This experiment would be the launching pad for other such projects around the city. When the first phase of the development was completed in April 2008, hopes were high. The sky was the limit.

Read the full article here.

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