Web Features
At a permaculture-based ecovillage in North Carolina, care for the earth, care for people, and care for inner health all benefit from a dynamic culture based on local self-reliance, holism, and community.
A community rallies in support of a long-time member diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, discovering opportunities and possibilities for new connections with each other and becoming more present to the priceless experiences of both living and dying.
Neither the therapist diagnosing Major Depression nor the psychiatrist prescribing an antidepressant asked the fundamental question: Do you like to garden? When the author discovers this doorway into the natural world, he also finds community and inner and outer health.
Both in traditional cultures and at La’akea, close loving relationships, consistent community connection, a life close to nature, fresh non-processed food, satisfying work, regular exercise, clean air and water, attunement to biological rhythms, joy, and laughter all support health.
Noise and quiet can both affect well-being profoundly. Gordon Hempton’s One Square Inch of Silence offers ear-opening stories and perspectives, practical suggestions, and simple, radical wisdom.
Also in This Issue (Print Version Only)
· PUBLISHER'S NOTE: LESSONS FROM THE ORCHARD: A PEACH of a Health Care Plan
· COOPERATIVE GROUP SOLUTIONS: THE BULLY QUESTION
· THE ZEGG FORUM AT EARTHAVEN
· HEALTH AND COMMUNITY: A MOVE TO EDINBURGH
Leaving London to regain a sense of well-being, the author lands in a Scottish housing cooperative, where she finds mutual support, health, and the ability to be herself amongst others.
· CELL PHONES, EDUCATION, FARMING, AND MENTAL HEALTH
Shepherd Bliss
A professor and farmer suggests that the nearly-ubiquitous cell phone may, instead of being the best thing since sliced bread, endanger our health and threaten our relationships within human and natural communities.
· THE SHAKERS’ SECRETS OF LONGEVITY
Paul Salmon & Susan Matarese
For more than 200 years, a wholesome diet, regular physical activity, hygienic practices, comprehensive health care, economic security, and social support combined with religious principles contributed to the Shakers’ general good health and longevity.
· THE SHAKERS THEN AND NOW
Paul Salmon & Susan Matarese
· ARTABANA SOLIDARITY COMMUNITIES: New Paths for an Integrated Health Care System in Germany
Ina Meyer-Stoll
Based on principles of freedom, responsibility, solidarity, transparency, giving, sharing, and healthy, integrated lifestyles, a European-based alternative health care network offers practical models that could be enacted anywhere.
· THE ZEGG FORUM: A Personal Process in a Social Context
Ina Meyer-Stoll
· HEALING WORK IN A HEALING BIOTOPE: An interview with Dr. Amelie Weimar
Stephen Davis
Tamera Healing Biotope seeks to promote healing on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels, within individuals, within the whole community, and between genders, cultures, humans and nature.
· THE TRUE NEED FOR COMMUNITY
Both scientific studies and personal experience confirm the importance of community in healing and healthy living. Mutual support and a sense of connection to a whole help us thrive physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
· COMMUNITY CURED MY ASTHMA AND ALLERGIES
Mandy Creighton
Turning to her community for support and advice, and opening up to healing alternatives, a chronic asthmatic finally discovers the health that has eluded her throughout 27 years of conventional treatment.
· SOME NATURAL WAYS TO MANAGE YOUR ASTHMA AND ALLERGIES
Mandy Creighton
· WANT TO BE A HEALER? BE A CREEK!
Niánn Emerson Chase
In order for us to begin to feel union with others, we must realize that we have a common need to heal, and that healing is an ongoing process—dynamic, flowing, moving, and cleansing.
· COMMUNITY AND HEALTH: IMMIGRANT SENIOR COHOUSING IN THE NETHERLANDS
Dorit Fromm & Els de Jong
Innovative Dutch cohousing projects allow ethnic minorities to spend their elder years in dignity, community, mutually supportive relationships, greater connection to their traditions and families, and better health.
· SENIOR COHOUSING: Establishing a Healthy, Sustainable Lifestyle for an Aging Generation
Chuck Durrett
Senior cohousing enhances quality of life, supports physical, social, and emotional well-being, and allows seniors to live lightly on the planet at the same time.
· HISTORIC COMMUNITIES: HIGH WIND: A Retrospective
Belden Paulson
High Wind’s cofounder reflects on decades of work at the intersection of academia, community, and sustainable living.
