Intentional Communities Newsletter: October 6, 2012

Ecovillage Infrastructure: The Skeleton of Community by Gwendolyn Hallsmith

Water supply, human waste treatment, zoning regulations, legal structure, homeownership models, and other core technical issues are essential in ecovillage planning.

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Creating Ecohousing 
by Vivian Vaillant

The Yarrow Ecovillage uses the cohousing model to create ecological buildings that meet their occupants’ needs.

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Coming Of Age: 21 Years of EcoVillage Planning and Living by Liz Walker

In Ithaca, New York, a pioneering project continues to break new ground in ecological design, education, and community.


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Also in This Issue

• Publisher’s Note: Echovillage Living by Laird Schaub
• An Ecovillage Future by Chris Roth
• Off the Grid and Out of the Trash Can by Arjuna da Silva
• Aspiring to the Working Class by Lee Walker Warren
• My Advice to Others Planning to Start an Ecovillage by Lois Arkin
• From Camp to Village by Andrew Heben
• Good Neighbors: Top 10 Reasons to Live Next to an Ecovillage by Alyson Ewald
• Getting Ecovillages Noticed by Alex Whitcroft
• Growing Up in EcoVillage at Ithaca by Allegra Willett
• Fifty Years On: Living Now in the Findhorn Foundation Community by Lisa Sutherland
• Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood—Rebuilding Community within the City by Robin Allison
• Dandelion Village: Building an Ecovillage in Town by Maggie Sullivan
• Going from Vision to Culture by Daniel Weddle
• Vision and Reality in Ecotopia: Making Lemonade out of Lemons at the Port Townsend EcoVillage by Helen Kolff
• Living the Questions by Coleen O’Connell
• Nashira: An Ecovillage from the Grassroots by Giovanni Ciarlo
• Ecovillage Radio by Russ Purvis
• Would an Ecovillage by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet? by E. Christopher Mare, M.A.
• Busting the Myth that Consensus-with-Unanimity Is Good for Communities, Part II by Diana Leafe Christian
• A Few Basic Process Points for Happy Community Life: Response to “Busting the Myth, Part II” by Tree Bressen
• “Busting the Myth, Part II”: More Thoughts by Laird Schaub
• Creating Cooperative Culture—Review—Group Works: A Pattern Language for Bringing Life to Meetings and Other Gatherings by Chris Roth

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