Alline has been a member of
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage since 1999. She and her husband Kurt run the
Milkweed Mercantile, a strawbale, solar- and wind-powered Inn and Seminar Program. Contact her at alline AT milkweedmercantile.com—she’d love to hear from you.
Articles by Alline Anderson
Women’s Empowerment Circles offer community-within-community, building trust, caring, and mutual support.
Cars and Rabbits (Issue # 143)
What separates the men from the boys, the wheat from the chaff, the truly eco-concerned from the cotton-headed ninny-muggins? Car use. Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage has honed the practice of car-sharing to an art.
There wasn't much chance that her lifelong dream of owning a bookstore would come true in her rural Missouri community. So Alline Anderson set off down the exciting and terrifying path of launching the Milkweed Mercantile--creating jobs, providing a market for community products, and offering a warm place for visitors to put up their feet.