Table of Contents/No. 111. Summer 2001

DEPARTMENTS Letters Publisher's Note Community Grapevine Reviews Calendar Classifieds Reach

FOCUS

Creating "Magic Culture"

Creating "Magic Culture": Appropriate Technology & Intentional Community

Jeff Clearwater  From the Guest Editor.

In a Hawai'ian Rainforest...Living the Good Life

John Schinnerer  From "living structures" to machetes to solar panels, Pangaia members choose technologies that match their culture.

• Using Water Wisely at Malu'Aina

Ecovillage Design Down Under

Max Lindegger  How residents of Crystal Waters in Australia use permaculture design, natural building, and innovative water collection and reuse to live within their ecological means.

Ecovillage 2015: Algae, Giant "Seashells," & Sustainable Culture

Jeff Clearwater  takes a handful of already-discovered though not-yet-available technologies and bio-technologies, a plausible invention or two, and delight in community to introduce an ecovillage we might just live in 15 years from now.

Getting There: Transportation Alternatives at Dancing Rabbit

Jonah "Cecil" Scheib  We don't always need 3,000 lbs of metal, glass and dead dinosaurs to get where we're going. Jonah "Cecil" Scheib shows how they do it at Dancing Rabbit.

• Appropriate Technology Expos and Fairs, Summer-Fall 2001

"Farm Tech": A Different Way of Seeing

Albert Bates  Forget what this tool or technology is supposed to do. What else can it do given a community's high ideals and a low budget? Albert Bates on how people at The Farm have turned necessity into invention.

• "Technology"--What Is It?
• Going Solar? Making it Happen, by Jeff Clearwater

How "Eco" Are We?: Using the "Ecological Footprint" to Measure Sustainability

Jeff Clearwater  Now we can determine just how close we come to using no more than our fair share of the planet's resources.

Resources for Appropriate Technology

What you need to do it--recommended Web sites, workshops, consultants, mail-order solar suppliers, super-efficient refrigerators, wind generators, solar water pumps, and hydroelectric generators.

FEATURE

Shamanism as Ecovillage "Glue"

David Cameron  Using the oldest, most widespread "spiritual technology" on the planet for knowledge, power, healing--and living in community.

Seriously Seeking Community

Patricia Greene  One couple's journey through the hopes, dreams, fears, and realities of the search for their ideal community home.

COLUMNS

ECOVILLAGE NETWORK OF THE AMERICAS - La Caravana: Have Ecovillage, Will Travel

Alejandra Liora Adler

FEDERATION UPDATE - Egalitarian...and Green!

Valerie Renwick-Porter

PROCESS IN COMMUNITY - Moderating the Vocal, Encouraging the Shy: Workable Ways to Equalize Participation in Meetings

Tree Bressen

COMMUNITY LIVING WORLDWIDE- Feeling Ittai at Yamagishi Toyosato

Bill Metcalf

MY TURN - Frankly Scarlet...

Deborah Altus

PERIPATETIC COMMUNITARIAN - Sustainable Energy

Geoph Kozeny

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