The Five Stages of Collapse - What are they and what can you do about them?
Dmitry Orlov's long awaited, The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit is now off press. Note the position of …
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Finding Community
How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community
Finding community is as critical as obtaining food and shelter, since the need to belong is what makes us human. The isolation and loneliness of modern life have led many people to search for deeper connection, which has resulted in a renewed …
related subjects: Community Building
Slow is Beautiful
New Visions of Community, Leisure, and Joie de Vivre
We're hammered, we're slammed, we're out of control. Happiness is on the decline in the most affluent country in the world and Americans are troubled by the destructiveness of a lifestyle devoted to money and status. Yet no-one seems to have a clue …
related subjects: Sustainable Living
Ecovillages
A Practical Guide to Sustainable Communities
Ecovillages have arisen around the world in response to the social fragmentation of modern life and its alienation from nature. They provide a variety of ways of living in community with others and with nature and are linked worldwide through the …
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EcoVillage at Ithaca
Pioneering a Sustainable Culture
In a world filled with stories of environmental devastation and social dysfunction, EcoVillage at Ithaca is a refreshing and hopeful look at a modern-day village that is taking an integrated approach to addressing these problems.
This book tells the …
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The Natural Step for Communities
How Cities and Towns can Change to Sustainable Practices
Sustainability may seem like one more buzzword, and cities and towns like the last places to change, but The Natural Step for Communities provides inspiring examples of communities that have made dramatic changes toward sustainability, and explains …
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Superbia!
31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods
Superbia! is a book of practical ideas for creating more socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable neighborhoods. It is about remaking suburban and urban neighborhoods to serve people better and to reduce human impact on the …
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Creating a Life Together
Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities
An intentional community is a group of people who have chosen to live or work together in pursuit of a common ideal or vision. An ecovillage is a village-scale intentional community that intends to create, ecological, social, economic, and spiritual …
related subjects: Sustainable Living
Coming Back to Life
Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
Many of us feel called upon to respond to the ecological destruction of our planet, yet we feel overwhelmed, immobilized, and unable to deal realistically with the threats to life on Earth. Coming Back to Life provides a much needed update and …
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