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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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Co-op America Highlights Eating Co-ops

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Co-op America published an article on eating co-ops in its Real Money newsletter. The article profiles a variety of groups around the country who have gotten together to share cooking and/or meals together.

From college campuses to apartment buildings, and from suburban neighborhoods to cohousing communities, many busy people have found that cooking cooperatively, especially for the after-work dinners on weeknights, can save time and money, and deepen connections with family and community—all while supporting healthy, green food choices. Though cooking co-op arrangements vary, they all take advantage of the fact that cooking one meal for a crowd, once a week, requires less money, less planning, and less time than cooking five to seven different meals for one’s own family.