Feb 2008

Latest Village Happenings

Check out some of our recent Village events in the latest "Village Happenings" (ATTACHED)
VILLAGE HAPPENINGS 11Feb08

Article on Gossip in Community

The ATTACHED PDF article is well worth reading. It is a personal account by co-housing author, Chuck Durrett, about his own experiences in avoiding a corrosive aspect of living in community.
Gossip-CoH article

If you don't want to download the PDF you can read the article on screen at: http://www.cohousing.org/cm/article/gossip

AAEV Friend coordinating Ecovillage Network

AAEV Friend, Sarah West is now the Coordinator, Secretary and Treasurer of The Ecovillage and Co-housing Network of Australia(ECNA) Inc. - http://www.ecna.org.au

The Network site allows you to sign up for forums, access to information and articles, and more.

You can contact Sarah in her Coordinator role by email or phone on 0406 086 681

Sustainability in the suburbs

Yes - it is possible to "retro-fit" suburban streets for more sustainable living. Here's an inspirational story of how sustainable living in the suburbs can be built out of restored community.

Below is a link to an article published by the Sunday Age Colour Magazine “M”, a few weeks back, publicising the Sustainability Street Approach (SSA), namely, the power of building local, human scale relationships for sustainability. An important point made in the article is that ... “after a while, Sustainability Street is not something the community does, it becomes something the community is!”
http://www.voxbandicoot.com.au/images/stories/Sustainability%20Street
%20approach/media%20release/Sustainability%20Street%20Age%20story.pdf

(The article is also ATTACHED as a PDF)
Sustainability Street story

There are now scores and scores of SSA Villages, around Australia, who have long since “finished the course”, but whose group identification and sense of belonging to each other is ongoing, based on their commitment to a sustainable future.  The very first ever Sustainability Street Village is now six years old and still hangin’ out together.

You can find out more about this great movement for urban sustainability through the Vox Bandicoot website at:
http://www.voxbandicoot.com.au/