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While some learn to live sustainably, others learn to survive. Shocking. Or not. Depending on your vantage point, or viewpoint.

August 9, 2010
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While some learn to live sustainably, others learn to survive. Shocking. Or not. Depending on your vantage point, or viewpoint.

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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“What happens to full-time RVers when they cannot take care of their own or their spouse’s needs following an illness, injury, surgery, or the progression of a long-term health situation?”

May 18, 2009
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“What happens to full-time RVers when they cannot take care of their own or their spouse’s needs following an illness, injury, surgery, or the progression of a long-term health situation?”

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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Staying Put, in a Mobile Home

May 28, 2009
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Staying Put, in a Mobile Home

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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What Is Cohousing?

May 28, 2009
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What Is Cohousing?

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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