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Daybreak Cohousing, urban living, community living, Resources
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To learn more about cohousing . Check out What is Cohousing? Below are some general resources about cohousing, other Oregon cohousing communities, and consensus decision-making for anyone interested in learning more about cohousing. Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities. By Diana Leafe Christian. An excellent source for community stories and recommendations about what works and does not work when building community. Check it out from the. Creating Cohou...
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My house and home: Living in an eco-house | Green Building Blog
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My house and home: Living in an eco-house August 23, 2013. 8212; naturalbuild @ 1:51 pm. This budget bought us a small (10. We developed some golden rules during the build: we would choose environmentally-friendly products over visual looks; we could not buy anything for the house without mutual agreement; we would worry more about cost than time taken to complete things; local suppliers and workforce were best; just because it was not the conventional way of doing things did not mean it would not work.
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Straw bale house, Yacanto, Córdoba, Argentina | Green Building Blog
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Straw bale house, Yacanto, Córdoba, Argentina August 5, 2010. 8212; naturalbuild @ 7:43 pm. With glorious views of the Sierra de Comechingones, the straw bale house at Yacanto. Straw bale house at Yacanto. Door and veranda of the house. The smaller second straw bale house – outside and in. View of the front of the house and inside main living room. Detail of the roof. View of the front (facing east) of the house. The new geodesic greenhouse dome. This house is an example of careful research, cost-based c...
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How do eco-house ideas travel? | Green Building Blog
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How do eco-house ideas travel? December 8, 2013. Filed under: Academic articles on green building. Project outputs and findings. 8212; naturalbuild @ 3:14 pm. I am interested in how ideas about eco-housing travel between places, and particularly between countries. I have developed a spatial processes approach to help us understand how knowledges and practices are innovated, circulated and adapted. This is summarised in Figure 1. Knowledges and practices emerge in spaces of innovation. Just as with plants...
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Book review: The Birth of an eco-village by Paul Wimbush | Green Building Blog
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Book review: The Birth of an eco-village by Paul Wimbush July 24, 2013. 8212; naturalbuild @ 11:09 am. FeedARead Publishing, 2012. Review first appeared in Permaculture Magazine]. One Response to “Book review: The Birth of an eco-village by Paul Wimbush”. September 16, 2014 at 3:49 pm. Paul Omg. It’s been so long. I saw a video of you the other day on FB. Amazing large, small world. I would love to connect. It’s been since India 98! Much love fellow Gemini. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Review of book R...
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SHORSHIYUT:Deep-rootedness: July 2011
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A blog about food, gardening, Judaism, politics, music, radio and occasional mid-life angst. The destiny of a nation depends on the manner in which it feeds itself.". Wednesday, July 27, 2011. I subscribe to a food activism listserve; this was posted on it a couple days ago. I wish I could credit the author, but I don't actually know who wrote it. In the line at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
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SODO Moscow: Bibliography
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Adventures in sustainable development of the industrial area South Of DOwntown Moscow, Idaho. The Smart Growth Manual. Duany, Speck and Lydon, 2010. A "Pattern Language" approach to the topic of smart growth and sustainable community design. Spans a variety of scales, from region, to neighborhood to street to building. Authors are urban planners. Nels Reese provided it as a book of readings for Moscow P&Z Commission members Dec 2010. LA Ecovillage and CRSP. The Jamaica Plain Cohousing. Located in Corvall...
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Photographs | Green Building Blog
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February 18, 2011. All photographs on this blog are by Jenny Pickerill and published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 licence. To Share to copy, distribute and transmit the work. To Remix to adapt the work. Under the following conditions:. Attribution You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). With the understanding that:. Your fair dealing or fair use.
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Findhorn Eco-village, Forres, Scotland | Green Building Blog
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Findhorn Eco-village, Forres, Scotland July 24, 2013. 8212; naturalbuild @ 3:40 pm. Trying to summarise what Findhorn. I had the great pleasure of visiting for a week in June 2013. I was attending the International Communal Studies Association (ICSA) conference. And to listen and share. When it was time to leave I experienced a physical shock at returning to the disconnected world beyond; that all too familiar place where we do not talk to strangers and try our best never to touch. Was built and a whole ...
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Accessibility in sustainable communities: inclusive eco-living for disabled people? | Green Building Blog
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Accessibility in sustainable communities: inclusive eco-living for disabled people? March 3, 2014. Filed under: Academic articles on green building. 8212; naturalbuild @ 3:42 pm. Guest blog by Amita Bhakta. However, sustainable communities have failed to learn from the mistakes made in British housing in the past, providing inaccessible environments in which to live, and there are different factors which contribute to this. Figure 1.1 Speed of movement through Hockerton Housing Project. 1) Office for Nat...