Creating a New Kind of Community

What we're up to is, essentially, creating a new kind and level of community. To begin with, we are talking about building new cohousing communities — an innovation in the region, neighborhoods that are built to engage and to facilitate interaction. This is, in the age of the mass society, a radical concept in itself: eco-communities in which people actually get to know each other and become part of each others' lives. More broadly, however, we're seeking to engage entire existing [Read more...]

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We invite you to join us in developing new ideas for New Jersey. We are uniquely positioned to make a difference. We have many challenges, including an agonizingly slow economic recovery, political and economic divisions that are obstructions to achieving sustainability and resiliency in the face of sea level rise and other impacts of climate change, etc. But our opportunities are greater than our challenges. New Jersey is, as everyone knows, the most densely-populated state in the U.S. (an [Read more...]