Category Archives: United States

  The extraordinary cohousing and climate change study tour was coming to an end. [Remember that the posts are best read on the WordPress site where they are laid and and supported with lots of photographs. They can be more … Continue reading →

The day started with a meeting in Stanford University discussing 100% Renewable Energy, Safe Climate Restoration and reasons for optimism with Professor Mark Jacobsen, Director of Atmosphere and Energy. Driving up to FrogSong Cohousing Community from Stanford meant travelling through … Continue reading →

We met at the local cafe in the old part of what was once the Fair Oaks township and is now an outer suburb of Sacramento. It was fabulous to catch up with Fair Oaks Founder, Marty Maskall, at her … Continue reading →

The Pacific Northwest had been an enticing proposition for a long time being such a hot spot for progressive minded, Cultural Creative types who for years, have been improving quality of life for themselves and others in a socially and … Continue reading →

An opportunity to do some house-sitting in the house of Ruth in near-by community of Cully Grove had opened up so the stay in the Guest house at Columbia Ecovillage was a brief one night. Cully Grove is a sixteen … Continue reading →

In this part of the Pacific Northwest there are many cohousing communities. Portland alone, with a city population of less than six hundred thousand, has nine existing communities: Cascadia, PDX Commons, Peninsula Park Commons, Siskiyou Household Refuge, Trillium Hollow, Woolsey … Continue reading →

Leaving Colorado and heading to the north-west Pacific area – Portland and Seattle – involved a circuitous route via Houston, Texas. Got to fly over a lot of flooded areas giving truth to the stories Tom and Kathy King from … Continue reading →

The man walking his two German Shepherds on the ‘sidewalk’ was wearing a t-shirt about fighting the environmental threat of the introduced and venomous Lionfish now upsetting the natural balance in the Atlantic around Florida, the Carribean and beyond. In … Continue reading →

In the town of Carberro, twenty-four kilometres (fifteen miles) from Durham, North Carolina, the bus rolled in to Pacifica. In 2001 architect Giles Blunden and a group of interested people created a new neighborhood around community, diversity, sustainability, affordability. In … Continue reading →

The tour pulled up at the next community – Elderberry – ready for lunch and a change of pace. “ “Elderberry owns two 10-acre parcels of land. One parcel, a lovely old farmstead with log house and outbuildings, will be … Continue reading →