Your Olive Branch by Neal Gorenflo, Jeremy Adam Smith Sharing is a big deal these days. Sharing is a growth industry, a new field of study and of practice; it presents a realm of career opportunities, a new way of life, and a concept around which...
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Greater Milwaukee Today By NAN BIALEK The 10 residents of the Eco Village in Bay View are good at sharing. They have to be. They share a car, a 60-inch television, an Internet connection and an “intentional community” designed to be both ecologically sustainable and affordable. Don’t...
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Kathryn Lucariello, Carroll County News EUREKA SPRINGS — “Can you imagine City Council operating out of the Seven Principles? “All that strife, all that contention, transformed?” Heidi Smith of the Center for Soulful Living asks these questions and sees that something like that could really...
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Ithaca Journal On Saturday, May 22, from 3-5pm, visitors to EcoVillage at Ithaca (EVI) can tour the existing 60 home ecological community and hear about plans for TREE, the third neighborhood in the award-winning co-housing development. TREE is branching out and actively seeking new members...
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Oakland Tribune By Annalee Allen The 20 households that make up Swan’s Market Cohousing in downtown’s Old Oakland Historic District are celebrating their 10th anniversary this month. To learn more, I recently visited the cohousing complex as the guest of Sandra and Michael Coleman, a couple...
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Bowen Island Undercurrent By Martha Perkins Nineteen years ago, when local contractor Roger McGillivray bought 10 acres of mountainside overlooking the Howe Sound, he had no idea it would become a retirement project – that is, he might be retired before anything was built on it....
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Huffington Post (blog) Tracy L. Barnett Recently I was privileged to spend some time in Belize with Albert Bates, co-founder of The Farm in Tennessee, the Global Ecovillage Network, a prolific author and a visionary for our times. I can honestly say that few people have...
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Sydney Morning Herald PETER COCK About 80 per cent of the population – and an even greater proportion of children – live in the suburbs, which with a bit of effort can become communities in the true sense of the word, growing some of their food...
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Peninsula Daily PORT TOWNSEND–EcoVillage, an “intentional community” that seeks to build a sustainable environment for its residents, wants you. “We are on the verge of resolving all of our issues with the city,” said Helen Kolff, who co-owns the land on which the community resides...
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Sustainable Industries One developer may be finding success in a down economy by bringing the concept of cohousing to the suburbs. Taltree ecoVillage is planned to include nine homes built on a lot originally zoned for six. YS Developments is trying to pre-sell the homes...
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WorldChanging (blog) - Alex Steffen This started as a few notes, became a rant, then tripped over some ideas which will be more fully articulated in coming work. Rough writing: read at your own risk. There are some obvious problems with this as a piece I...
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