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A living laboratory for a sustainable human future.

Author: Diana Leafe Christian

Author of Creating a Life Together, Diana speaks at ecovillage and cohousing conferences, offers consultations for communities, and leads workshops and online trainings internationally. She also is an instructor for Earthaven's School of Integrated Living's Earthaven Ecovillage Experience Weekend (https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/earthaven-ecovillage-experience-weekend/) and Earthaven Ecovillage Experience Week (https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/earthaven-ecovillage-experience-week/).

Economics–Why It’s The Short Leg of the Stool

On Friday morning, March 15, with lots of lively group engagement and drawings on the whiteboard, we were treated to a two-hour seminar on basic economic realities by Earthaven member Lee Warren. “An economy is the interactions and exchanges between people that manage the flow of resources among them,”...

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Earthaven’s New Decision-Making Method

Because increasing numbers of members over the last several years have been dissatisfied with our consensus decision-making method, in October 2012 Earthaven agreed to modify its consensus process. For 18 years we used consensus-with-unanimity, which requires 100% agreement (not counting stand-asides)...

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Forest Garden Neighborhood, July 20, 2010

Chioke, Amakiasu, & Ayo in Forest Garden Neighborhood On her next-to-last day at Earthaven, our Forest Children’s Collective tutor Amakiasu (center), and her kids Chioke, 17 (left) and Ayo, 13 (right), sheet-mulched the slope between Greg’s homesite and our place with cardboard and...

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