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New Micro-hydro Plant Amps Up – Adds Power for Two Neighborhoods

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 28, 2017. Posted in Articles, Bellavia Gardens, Hydro Power, Medicine Wheel. No Comments on New Micro-hydro Plant Amps Up – Adds Power for Two Neighborhoods

above: Spillway at the new micro-hydro installation. At long last, the second micro-hydro station at Earthaven is up and running, serving the delighted residents of Medicine Wheel and Bellavia Gardens neighborhoods. Through an ingenious design by neighbor Leon Birstein, each neighborhood is served...

Winter Weather… or not!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 22, 2017. Posted in Articles, Dancing Shiva, Nature, Visitors. No Comments on Winter Weather… or not!

above: This year’s first snow, about 8” in January, was poetically beautiful and rather quickly gone. Monday it gets warm, up into the 70s, and by Wednesday it freezes after midnight. Again. Cold wind slices through the sun’s bright warmth and we lean out of its way; next, it’s gone and we’re pulling...

Living in Place – Three Big Blessings of Living at Earthaven

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 1, 2016. Posted in Articles, Nature, Village Life. No Comments on Living in Place – Three Big Blessings of Living at Earthaven

One: Taking charge of time All it takes is a few hours out in town or on the road to re-realize how differently we live out here at Earthaven. So many basics of daily life are different; time is different. Priorities have to be different—so we’ve made quite a bit of room in our relationships and organizational...

Touring Earthaven

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on June 25, 2016. Posted in Articles, In-Person Events, Online Events, Visitors. No Comments on Touring Earthaven

You’ve come for The Tour. Alone, with your family or friends, or packaged (with your permission) into a group tour. You partake of the guided two-to-three-hour meander around the Village Center and several close-lying neighborhoods. For many of you, it’s a new world. Can it really be done...

Green!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on June 22, 2016. Posted in Articles, Social Events, Village Life. No Comments on Green!

Everything is soooo green! This view of the Village Green from Council Hall Plaza in May has lots to say about how much warmer and earlier Spring and Summer came this year. Still, it’s hard to complain about beautiful weather. Down on the Green, ball game lovers of all ages congregate on weekends...

Bellavia Gardens (among other neighborhoods) is Becoming a Co-op!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 22, 2016. Posted in Articles, Bellavia Gardens, Governance and Legal, Medicine Wheel, Neighborhoods. No Comments on Bellavia Gardens (among other neighborhoods) is Becoming a Co-op!

by Arjuna da Silva Some Earthaven neighborhoods are balancing collective and personal ownership issues by forming housing cooperatives. While used in other parts of the country, housing co-ops are new in our region and could be a reasonable model for other ecovillages, especially in rural areas. One...

How Children Fare in Community

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on December 2, 2015. Posted in Articles, Families and Children, People Care, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on How Children Fare in Community

by Diana Leafe Christian Daniel Greenberg, who in 2015 was elected President of the Global Ecovillage Network, wrote his thesis for a Ph.D. in child psychology on the emotional well-being of children in intentional communities. He surveyed 235 or so intentional communities in the U.S. and personally...

Grief Rituals in Our Communities: Partnering with our Ancestors to Compost our Grief

Written by NikiAnne Feinberg on September 16, 2015. Posted in Articles, In-Person Events, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Grief Rituals in Our Communities: Partnering with our Ancestors to Compost our Grief

Why a grief ritual? We all experience pain and loss in life – conflict, illness, disappointed dreams, broken relationships, loved ones who die or suffer, even inherited or ancestral pain…. Having healthful ways to release that pain and regularly cleanse that space inside ourselves, helps prevent...

Hut Hamlet Solar Microgrid Installed!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 12, 2015. Posted in Articles, Hut Hamlet, Renewable Energy, Solar Power. No Comments on Hut Hamlet Solar Microgrid Installed!

by Chris Farmer with Arjuna da Silva The Hut Hamlet’s kitchen/bathhouse — central distribution area for the neighborhood’s Microgrid. In June, twenty-two residents of the Hut Hamlet neighborhood became owner/users of the first electric Microgrid at Earthaven! Chris Farmer...

Restorative Circles Conference a Success!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 10, 2015. Posted in Articles, Conscious Relating, In-Person Events. No Comments on Restorative Circles Conference a Success!

by Diana Leafe Christian Over a hundred people from all over the US gathered at Earthaven, June 4-7, for “Restorative Circles in Our Communities,” a conference with Restorative Circles (RC) founder Dominic Barter and facilitator/trainers Karl Stayaert and “Duke” Duchscherer. All three, as well as...