Tag: Communities - Page 5
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"Allow Spiritual Genitalia to Guide Conversation" - Ecovillage Living Exposed (Video)
A hillarious parody sends up some of the misconceptions about intentional community.
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60 Recycled Shipping Containers Transformed into London's Boxpark Shopping Mall
Boxpark is a pop-up shopping mall made out of recycled containers stacked two stories high.
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Would You Rent Your Dog? Make Money By Sharing Almost Everything You Own (Video)
Sharing is good for the planet. But it can also be good for your bank account. One writer made some serious money by renting his dog.
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Yoxi the Matchmaker: Hooking Up Innovators with Business Partners
"Social Innovation Rockstars"
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Frances Moore Lappé on Escaping Thought Traps and Creating Democracy for a Small Planet (Podcast)
The author of Diet for a Small Planet discusses democracy, psychology, Occupy Wall Street, and her new book, EcoMind.
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Transition Movement Founder Visits Occupy LSX. His Reaction is Mixed.
What happens when the community-focused Transition movement meets the Occupy protests?
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Heathrow Residents Speak Out For Squatted Community Garden (Video)
Residents don't always welcome squatters moving in next door. But in Heathrow, England, it was infinitely preferable to the alternatives.
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U.K.-Based Drink Company Tops Smoothies With Knitted Hats to Raise Money for Elderly
Innocent Drinks hopes to raise $1.5 million with the knit campaign.
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The Biggest Barrier to Sharing May Be Ourselves
Starting a tool library is easy. But actually using it means getting over some social baggage.
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Guerrilla Gardener Grows Community, Finds God, and a Beautiful Note (Video)
A vigilante gardener shares his experiences of growing food, meeting neighbors, and learning to share.
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Foursquare Gets Peed On: App Combines Biological and Digital Territorial Marking
Most animals pee on things to mark their territory. Humans use Foursquared. Now we can do both.
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Exploring Community Resilience in Times of Rapid Change: Inspiring Animation (Video)
We live in turbulent times, but this beautiful animation offers a systemic approach to facing up to change.
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Solar Panels Are Easy, Cooperation is Hard: Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall on the Challenge of Transition
It's not the "what we do" that's hard, it's how we do it. And how we do it together. So says celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
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How Organic Farmers and Ethical Consumers are Taking on the Mafia
The mafia's stranglehold on Italy is often taken for granted. But organic farming cooperatives are taking on the mafia and even farming their land.
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How a Medieval Spanish Ghost Town Became a Self Sufficient Ecovillage (Video)
Villages that were once abandoned to urbanization have become hidden, communal ecovillages. Here's how.
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How I Created a Tool Library in Under Two Hours
When I say "I", I mean "we". And when I say "tool library", really I mean lending network. But the core lesson still stands. Sharing is really easy, and often all it takes is broaching the
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"Communities Are More Important Than Nations": Bill McKibben
From community-owned solar power stations through edible landscaping in parks to feed the homeless to the power of local investing, we've featured plenty of localized, community-based responses to climate change and peak oil. But how does community
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Co-Housing Meets Commercial Farming and Cheese Making (Video)
From co-housing for aging boomers to co-housing in urban Brooklyn the idea of building intentional communities that combine shared communal space and property with private dwellings has a lot going for it, from a green
