permaculture

[Food Forests <foodforests@mac.com>]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/garden/11cohousing.html?8dpc=&_r=1&pagewanted=all

"The tour was one of several this season in different parts of the country 
designed to give participants an up-close look at various co-housing 
communities, and to address an increasingly common feeling that one pays too 
much for one’s home, sees friends too little there and generally lives a more 
isolated life than is desirable. These are not new complaints, but the 
recession has sharpened them, as it has thrown all large expenditures under 
deeper scrutiny."