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Living sustainably – changing light bulbs, appliances, car, lowering and raising the thermostat, buying locally, taking mass transit (and of course, it’s going to take more than this). Survival – having a place to live, food to eat, water to drink, neighbors, or family, or government to help. I’m guessing, like so many other things, if...
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Bulletin Boards, Comics, Dinners, Junk – A way to a New Future It’s been said that when personal or civil tragedy strikes, people often come together for support. To some, tragedy appears to have struck the world now – with an approaching “perfect storm” of peak oil, climate change, national debt, population growth, and as...
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The New Public Library Proposal overview The post-industrial age public library had an inspired calling – make books available to the working class. The coming of the information age introduced computers and video tapes to these libraries, and now the post-information age is leaving libraries behind in favor of Google, Kindle, and iPod. It may not...
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Here’s a good place to share your stuff at. Check out this new community center, bookstore, internet cafe, gallery and performance stage in New York City on Staten Island – by the Staten Island Ferry terminal in St George, it’s made by the amazing Ganas Community who do all those recycling businesses.
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CARE answers the question. Escapees CARE Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (tax-exempt) corporation formed in 1992 and is under the guidance of a volunteer board of directors.   Friends may offer to help, not realizing that a “little help” will become a need for extensive help with no end in sight. Is it fair to put...
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NAVIGATING the rocky shoals of retirement housing can be unappealing when the available options have names like active adult, continuing care and assisted living.   But here at a place called Someday, on a breezy ridge overlooking this tiny Putnam County village, about 35 couples ages 55 and older have discovered a more unusual and distinctly...
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As Billy Joel says, “It’s all rock and roll to me.” Indeed, there are many different movements addressing how we live and the anticipated socio-economic changes due to a confluence of storms – peak oil, population increases, climate change, etc. Some of these efforts, like Transistion Culture, attempt to facilitate action on the local level. Transition...
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This is a 10 minute walking tour of a 40×60′ family garden in Covert, NY. Featuring raised beds, permaculture principles and a lot of playful approaches to gardening.
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Cohousing is a type of collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighborhoods.   Cohousing residents are consciously committed to living as a community. The physical design encourages both social contact and individual space. Private homes contain all the features of conventional homes, but residents also have access...
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