"An intentional community is a planned residential community designed to have a much higher degree of teamwork than other communities. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision and are often part of the alternative society. They typically also share responsibilities and resources. Intentional communities include cohousing communities, ecovillages, communes, survivalist retreats, kibbutzim, ashrams and some housing cooperatives. Typically, new members of an intentional community are selected by the community's existing membership, rather than by real-estate agents or land owners (if the land is not owned collectively by the community)."(wikipedia) More >>

People with disabilities should be able to join in mainstream society, have fun and enjoy cultural activities like anyone else. More >>

We've been to Hel(met) and back in the last week!   The rights and wrongs of wearing bicycle helmets have been passionately discussed in the paper (mostly online) and on radio over the last couple of weeks.  Fact is it is illegal not to.   More >>

When Bettina suggested we construct a labyrinth it immediately sent my neurons firing off in all directions ( read ' I thought it was a good idea')!
It was the art project that finally surfaced from all that activity up there in my head.  But that was only the start of it (and may well be the end of me)  – imagine a 6m x 6m canvas!  More >>

NICA has announced the winners of it's awesome Eco Flicks competition  ..... and the winners are.........
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The one thing population growth has going for it is employment, albeit short term, cyclical, relatively unimaginative, relatively unsafe, deadline and profit driven, generally without a career path unless you belong to one of the few large construction companies and it doesn’t employ a lot of women. More >>