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Back to the Land is Back in Vogue, and It Could Make You Happier
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3.6.2013 |
Organic Consumers Association News Headlines |
| Radical homemakers have become a touchstone of the growing "homesteading" movement, which takes today's ethos of frugality, self-sufficiency, and domestic DIY to its ultimate extreme. Click here to read this article |
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[fredericknoronha :: poverty]
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‘The Source Family,’ a Concert and Film
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26.4.2013 |
NY Times: NY Region |
| ‘The Source Family,’ a Concert and Film |
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Edith Schaeffer, 98, Dies; Defined Christian Values
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7.4.2013 |
NY Times: World |
| Mrs. Schaeffer wrote books describing women’s domestic role in an increasingly secular world, and with her husband, founded the Christian commune L’Abri. |
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[sdeepak :: Religious worship]
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Senior cooperative housing pitched for Heart of the City in Burnsville
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16.3.2013 |
Star Tribune: Local |
| The project would be an independent-living facility. |
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Retirees Choose Intergenerational Cohousing
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13.3.2013 |
NY Times: Real Estate |
More older Americans are planning to retire in planned communities that organize group meals and activities and welcome residents of all ages. |
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Adult home takes unusual approach to elderly care
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27.2.2013 |
Terrorism |
| Aging residents are encouraged to help at the farm, and boisterous children are welcome. ... |
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For the aging, a commune-like alternative in NY
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27.2.2013 |
AP National |
| CHESTNUT RIDGE, N.Y. (AP) -- At the Fellowship Community's adult home, workers are paid not according to what they do, but what they need; aging residents are encouraged to lend a hand at the farm, the candle shop or the pottery studio; and boisterous children are welcome around the old folks.... |
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For the aging, a commune-like alternative in NY
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27.2.2013 |
Seattle Times: Nation & World |
| At the Fellowship Community's adult home, workers are paid not according to what they do, but what they need; aging residents are encouraged to lend a hand at the farm, the candle shop or the pottery studio; and boisterous children are welcome around the old folks. |
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For the aging, a commune-like alternative in NY
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27.2.2013 |
Twincities.com: Nation |
| CHESTNUT RIDGE, N.Y.—At the Fellowship Community's adult home, workers are paid not according to what they do, but what they need; aging |
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The Cooperative Way to a Stronger Economy
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20.2.2013 |
Commondreams.org Views |
 Andrew Dwyer and Shawn Seebach are in their first year at Equal Exchange, where they are learning the business of coffee as well as how to work in a cooperative. (Photo by Paul Dunn)Our little group of a dozen families was running out of time.
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[flenvcenter :: Local Economies]
[flenvcenter :: Socially-Responsible Investing]
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Tragedy of the Commune
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28.1.2013 |
Mother Jones |
| Free-range chickens, yoga, doulas, the paleo diet: They're no longer just for hippies. The '60s subculture that conservatives loved to hate is now about as controversial as motherhood and apple pie—especially if those apples aren't organic. But is "natural living" always better? The son of two die-hard California hippies, Nathanael Johnson brings a critical take to his parents' ideology in his new book, All Natural: A skeptic's Quest for Health and Happiness in an Age of Ecological Anxiety , which comes out this week. Think of him as Alex P. Keaton, but without the suits and Reagan fetish. In a face-to-face chat at Mother Jones HQ, we touched on modern medicine, raw milk, and when it's safe to let your kids roll around in the dirt.
MJ: You write that when you were five, you suddenly realized you hadn't been raised like everyone else.
NJ: We'd moved up to a new town in the mountains in California, and there was a lake where all these kids were swimming. I just stripped off all my ... |
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[demo :: Organic Agriculture]
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Court: Hutterites must pay workers' compensation
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1.1.2013 |
Seattle Times: Top stories |
| A sharply divided Montana Supreme Court has ruled that forcing a Hutterite religious colony to pay workers' compensation insurance for jobs outside the commune is not an unconstitutional intrusion into religion. |
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Rastafarianism grows in Jamaica after long disdain
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29.11.2012 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| Rastafarianism grows in Jamaica after long disdain |
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Rastafarianism grows in Jamaica after long disdain
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29.11.2012 |
World |
| The robed Rastafarian priest looked out over the turquoise sea off Jamaica's southeast coast and fervently described his belief that deliverance is at hand. ... |
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A Most Secret Tragedy
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27.10.2012 |
Wall St. Journal: Opinion |
| The Great Leap Forward aimed to make China an industrial giant—instead it killed 45 million people. Michael Fathers reviews Yang Jisheng's "Tombstone" and Zhou Xun's "The Great Famine in China, 1958-1962." |
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Modern Japanese Ecovillage House Brings Nature Inside, Literally
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25.10.2012 |
TreeHugger |
A light-filled house in a Japanese ecovillage integrates the changing seasons of nature into the daily activities of its inhabitants. |
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: General]
[flenvcenter :: Lifestyle and Psychology]
[flenvcenter :: Alternative Housing]
[flenvcenter :: Gardens]
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For Young Greeks, A Communal Escape From Woes
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15.9.2012 |
NPR: Saturday |
| Facing their country's worst recession in a half-century, many young Greeks are leaving for jobs abroad. But an eco-commune on a Greek island is drawing visitors who learn to forage for nuts, plant herbs and blaze their own paths. |
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[demo :: Organic Agriculture]
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Beliefs: When Visions of a Christian Community Collide
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15.9.2012 |
NY Times: Real Estate |
John and Linda Parsons found themselves disappointed after their initial attraction to a Christian-themed cohousing development in Washington State.
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Habitat for Humanity building a model of efficiency
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4.9.2012 |
Chicago Tribune: Real Estate |
| Habitat for Humanity building a model of efficiency |
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[irge304 :: Building]
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Habitat for Humanity building a model of efficiency
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4.9.2012 |
LA Times: Business |
| Habitat for Humanity building a model of efficiency |
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[demo :: Affordable Housing]
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