Community News Round Up
Posted on May 2, 2008 byA lot of news about communities comes my way and its hard to pick and choose what to highlight on Community Buzz. Today, nothing stood out so I figured I’d… Read More
Colleges Go Green With On-Campus Ecovillages
Posted on April 29, 2008 byColleges and Universities around the country are wanting to improve their ecological impact while also providing students opportunities to learn about sustainable living. Some are taking the ecovillage model and… Read More
Ecovillages Help Study Abroad Programs Focus on Sustainability
Posted on April 28, 2008 byThe Yale Daily News has an article on how study-abroad programs are beginning to focus on sustainability and highlights Living Routes which takes students to ecovillages around the world. The… Read More
Raid on Texas Fundamentalist Mormon Community
Posted on April 26, 2008 by1 Comment
By now, most have heard about the raid by Texas Rangers on the Fundamentalist Mormon community in west Texas. During the raid, 437 children were removed from the community compound… Read More
Kibbutzim to be Rebranded as Ecovillages
Posted on April 25, 2008 byIsrael’s Kibbutzim have a media campaign in the works that highlights the ecological benefits of their communal groups according to the Guardian. The campaign, focusing on 140 sites in the… Read More
Ron Paul Supporters to Form Libertarian Community
Posted on April 24, 2008 bySome of the followers of presidential candidate Ron Paul are planning to start a libertarian community in West Texas according to the Lone Star Times. This month has seen the… Read More
NPR Story on Spiritual Organic 60s Commune
Posted on April 23, 2008 byNPR recently did a three part series on a spiritual community from the 60s called The Source. The Source originated as one of the first natural foods restaurant and grew… Read More
Climate Change Solutions: Investing in Green Building and Ecovillages
Posted on April 22, 2008 byA recent article in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix highlights a study claiming the best climate change solution is to invest in green building. The article sites the Rivergreen Ecovillage in… Read More
Arcosanti and Ecovillages in the Washington Post
Posted on April 21, 2008 by1 Comment
In honor of Earth Day, the Washington Post ran an article on Arcosanti with a sidebar on ecovillages as a green vacation destination. Arcosanti was started in the 1970s by… Read More
Communes and Co-ops for Seniors
Posted on April 17, 2008 by1 Comment
Baby boomers are looking at moving into shared living and communal living according to the article Boomers go back to the commune in retirement on BankRate.com. Normally when a headline… Read More
Cohousing Helps Prevent Global Warming by Reducing Carbon Footprint
Posted on April 16, 2008 by1 Comment
Cohousing can help residents reduce their carbon footprint and help prevent global warming according to a paper from the University College London. Those living in cohousing consume nearly 60 per… Read More
Community, Economy, and Utopia at Forbes.com
Posted on April 12, 2008 by1 Comment
Forbes.com has a special feature section on Utopia which has a great article on intentional communities. The article gives an overview on the US movement with a focus on communities… Read More
Cubes and Crayons Provides Coworking for Parents
Posted on April 7, 2008 by1 Comment
The San Francisco Chronicle profiled a new Coworking facility in Menlo Park that offers both short term office space and professional childcare. Coworking, a cafe-like community/collaboration space for developers, writers… Read More
Historic Communities in the News
Posted on April 2, 2008 by1 Comment
In the late 1700s and early 1800s the Harmony Society built three communities in Pennsylvania and Indiana attracting thousands of members and lasted for decades. The Harmonists are still making… Read More
First Official UK Ecovillage Seeks Permits
Posted on April 1, 2008 byLammas Ecovillage in Wales is seeking approval for their ecovillage under new UK government rules to allow a new form of rural mixed use development. Theirs would be the first… Read More
Cohousing Creates Permaculture Urban Forest
Posted on March 27, 2008 byManzanita Village Cohousing Community received a grant from the Arizona State Land Department to help expand its permaculture urban forest on its site in Prescott Arizona. The community will be… Read More
Ecovillage Bed and Breakfast
Posted on March 26, 2008 byThe Wild Goose Bed and Breakfast got some publicity for ecovillages on the Ithaca, NY local news. The bed and breakfast is located in the Ecovillage at Ithaca community just… Read More
Ecology, Economy, and Cohousing in the Boston Globe
Posted on March 25, 2008 by1 Comment
The Boston Globe has a great article on how ecology and economy are driving Cohousing to grow as a movement. Interest in these types of neighborhoods is growing as more… Read More
Cross between a Commune and a Golf Community?
Posted on March 24, 2008 byABC News in DC did a short video spot on Catoctin Creek Village out in Loudon County, VA and compared the rural cohousing community to both a 60s commune and… Read More
Cohousing: Building Seattle Green
Posted on March 24, 2008 byThe Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an interview with Coho/US Executive Directory Craig Ragland of Songaia Cohousing. Ragland gives the basics of cohousing touching on its appeal to the mainstream and its… Read More
Cohousing – Community Means Healthier Living
Posted on March 11, 2008 byYour Health Connection has created a series of three videos on cohousing and how it can help enhance people’s health. The site generaly focuses on health care and and medical… Read More
What’s Masculine, What’s Feminine, and What Am I?
Posted on March 7, 2008 byMollie Curry hoists a chainsaw and finds herself entangled in a perplexing webs of sticky questions. Here she attempts to untangle the threads, both within herself and within her community.
Building a Business in Community
Posted on March 7, 2008 byThere wasn’t much chance that her lifelong dream of owning a bookstore would come true in her rural Missouri community. So Alline Anderson set off down the exciting and terrifying path of launching the Milkweed Mercantile–creating jobs, providing a market for community products, and offering a warm place for visitors to put up their feet.
The Power Balance
Posted on March 7, 2008 byWhat can you do if some people in your group seem to have more power than others? Our consensus trainers and group process experts respond.
Sunset Magazine Profiles Portland Co-housing Couple
Posted on March 3, 2008 byIn an article titled “Green in Portland,” Sunset profiles three couples, one of them living in a co-housing development. Portland is famous for its natural beauty, it’s commitment to environmental… Read More
LA Ecovillage Threatened
Posted on February 23, 2008 byLast week The New Statesman, a British current affairs magazine, carried a story about the LA Ecovillage in its online edition. The blogger, Johnathon Dawson, usually writes about life at… Read More
Community at the Office: Coworking in the New York Times
Posted on February 20, 2008 byCoworking has hit the mainstream with an article in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. From the Chronicle: In co-working, a group of freelancers or other solo… Read More
Energy Conservation Techniques Make Green Home Building Affordable at Abundance Ecovillage
Posted on February 19, 2008 byAbundance Ecovillage in Fairfield, IA made the local news with a wonderful piece on their growing ecologically focused community. The piece focused primarily on the ecological aspects: solar and wind… Read More
Cohousing Not Just for Boomers
Posted on February 18, 2008 byThe big media splash in cohousing these days is about Senior or Elder Cohousing, and some might say cohousing’s core constituency is among the boomer generation. But recent posts on… Read More
