Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: "Living Lightly" and cohousing?

[Diane Simpson (dqs]

Here is some information that I have accumulated over the years about
sustainability and environmental resources. (I hope this is what you mean
by "living lightly") In addition to the three sources mentioned below,
Green Decade Coalition is a good organization to join if you're in the
Boston area. They are located at 474 Centre Street, Newton MA 02158. ph:
617-965-1995. Cost is $19.96 annually. They have a newsletter, tours,
speaker series. Also: The Rocky Mountain Institute is a good source of
information on living lightly. Their address is: Rocky Mountain Institute,
1739 Snowmass Creek Road, Snowmass, CO 81654-9199.
ph: 970-927-3851
e-mail: dreed [at] rmi.org
web: http://www.rmi.org
They have a newsletter that comes out three times a year and is posted to
their web site. If you want to be notified when the newsletter has been
posted, e-mail them at: newsletter [at] rmi.org. Suggested minimum donation:
$10.00

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Sustainability is a topic which is frequenty discussed on this list. A
recent issue of Popular Science gave me a pointer to a WWW site on the
topic that some of you may find useful:

http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/

There is a searchable database for resources along with a long list of
success stories. I've pasted a section from the "who we are" and "how to
contact us" pages into this posting for those of you without WWW access.

Stuart Bonnema
bonnema [at] cae.cig.mot.com
(near) Chicago, IL

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What is the Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development?

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the new Center of Excellence can:


Define what sustainable development is and how it can apply to you;

Show how sustainable development is being practiced by other urban and
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Provide you via, the internet, with a "tool kit" of sustainable information
including manuals, workbooks, data bases, case studies and model codes and
ordinances;

Help you identify public and private sources of technical and financial
assistance to carry out your program;

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If your community would like to request sustainable development assistance,
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Probably the list it came from was Ecocity--my favorite, by the way.
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If Coho-L doesn't provide you with enough email traffic and you're interested
in Eco-villages and sustainability in general, SUSTAIN-L and the Ecovillage
List have recently combined into ECOBALANCE.  Diverse topics being discussed
include diverse building materials, status of various ecovillages, various
aspects of land stewardship, etc.

There are a lot of articulate, knowledgeble folks on the ECOBALANCE list and
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