Keyword: community

Guerrilla Gardening
A Manualfesto
by David Tracey

The term "guerrilla" may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerrilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an …
related subjects: Food and Gardening

Slow is Beautiful
New Visions of Community, Leisure, and Joie de Vivre
by Cecile Andrews

We're hammered, we're slammed, we're out of control. Happiness is on the decline in the most affluent country in the world and Americans are troubled by the destructiveness of a lifestyle devoted to money and status. Yet no-one seems to have a clue …
related subjects: Sustainable Living

Ecovillages
A Practical Guide to Sustainable Communities
by Jan Martin Bang

Ecovillages have arisen around the world in response to the social fragmentation of modern life and its alienation from nature. They provide a variety of ways of living in community with others and with nature and are linked worldwide through the …
related subjects: Sustainable Living

EcoVillage at Ithaca
Pioneering a Sustainable Culture
by Liz Walker

In a world filled with stories of environmental devastation and social dysfunction, EcoVillage at Ithaca is a refreshing and hopeful look at a modern-day village that is taking an integrated approach to addressing these problems.
This book tells the …
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The Natural Step for Communities
How Cities and Towns can Change to Sustainable Practices
by Sarah James

Sustainability may seem like one more buzzword, and cities and towns like the last places to change, but The Natural Step for Communities provides inspiring examples of communities that have made dramatic changes toward sustainability, and explains …
related subjects: Urban Issues

Superbia!
31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods
by Dave Wann & Dan Chiras

Superbia! is a book of practical ideas for creating more socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable neighborhoods. It is about remaking suburban and urban neighborhoods to serve people better and to reduce human impact on the …
related subjects: Urban Issues

Creating a Life Together
Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities
by Diana Leafe Christian

An intentional community is a group of people who have chosen to live or work together in pursuit of a common ideal or vision. An ecovillage is a village-scale intentional community that intends to create, ecological, social, economic, and spiritual …
related subjects: Sustainable Living

Coming Back to Life
Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
by Molly Young Brown & Joanna Macy

Many of us feel called upon to respond to the ecological destruction of our planet, yet we feel overwhelmed, immobilized, and unable to deal realistically with the threats to life on Earth. Coming Back to Life provides a much needed update and …
related subjects: Sustainable Living