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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: Homestead <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] Positive thinking is going on, too.
  • Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 09:02:18 -0700

Regarding the fate of the future, The NYT has a pertinent piece, titled Saving the Suburbs, by Allison Arieff. The second segment is at:
http://arieff.blogs.nytimes.com/

Here are the last two graphs:

In keeping with this apparent new era of personal responsibility, the only-slightly-tongue-in-cheek collective Wannastartacommune.com started by Stephanie Smith, Buckminster Fuller-acolyte and founder of the green design lab, Ecoshack, gives a new attitude to an old idea, urging residents of cul de sacs or condos to come together with their neighbors to share resources. Suggestions for collaboration include a shared compost pile, weekly potlucks, neighborhood recycling programs, barter services and shared childcare. Their pilot project,Cul-de-Sac communes, is already underway.
This tendency — let’s call it extreme neighborliness — is so old- fashioned as to seem innovative. Startlingly basic and wholly actionable, it’s a bright spot in a dark time.

Gene GeRue
www.RURALIZE.com








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