Los Angeles Ecovillage
Ecovillage pioneer Lois Arkin writes about her passion to bring community, sustainability and affordability to Los Angeles... Learning to Live the Changes...

The Truly Sustainable Household
Is this the future? Permaculturalist Tim Krupnik from Oakland explains what his household is doing to conserve and to become a model for a sustainable future.

Cohousing Neighborhoods
Cohousing enthusiast Neshama Paiss writes about her experience in cohousing and how it relates to sustainability and affordability.

Prado: An Odyssey with the Homeless
Prado Homeless Day Center worker Jim Wilson takes on the mainstream and the alternative press and argues for restoring dignity and creating homes for the homeless while protecting the Earth.

Affordable Housing Advocates & Environmentalists Reach Historic Agreement
Read this breakthrough document! Finally, social justice and enviros meet and agree to align themselves on the issue of affordable housing!

Intentional Communities, Sustainability and Environmental Conservation
Cut-rate collaborative housing activist Betty Branch puts it all together. And now is the time!

From Homeless to Homerun...
with the Help of a Community Land Trust City Councilwoman Harriet Webster takes us on a tour of a neighborhood that collected the funds necessary to create affordable housing and nurtured community in the process.

Leaving the Central Coast for an Intentional Community
Interview with Debra Bingham

Incorporating as an Intentional Community
by Dave Henson

Ordinance Problems with Aesthetic Affordable Housing
by Brad Schwan

Resources
for more info on intentional communities, squatting, ecovillages, and search engines

south coast...

Crystal Waters Permaculture Ecovillage
by Evan Raymond & Morag Gamble

Living Wage Update in Santa Barbara
Events, Worker Outreach, Fundraising, Legislative update, The ordinance, Non-profits, What you can do.

Our Ancestors
by Jesse Swanhuyser

In this Issue...
Last issue we focused on sustainable and affordable housing. We emphasized the building supplies of the equation. We tried to break the hypnotic glaze that the lumber/timber and cement industries have over the public and building code officials. Hopefully, readers will now be more aware of what goes into building a house, more aware that what our ancestors and indigenous peoples used to build homes can be used again (cob, straw, sand, mud, adobe...), and more aware of the many resources of the numerous opportunities for building more sustainably...

columns...

Food News (new!)
by Suebob Davis

Eco-Elder News
by Bill Denneen

Disarmament News
by Sheila Baker

Parenting News
by Susan Coward

Possibilities
by Gene Knudsen Hoffman

Health News
by Zoe Wells

PFLAG News
by Becky Jorgeson

Green Party News
by Orval Osborne

departments...

Letters to the Editor

SLO Hours Directory

Subscribing to HopeDance

Back Issues

Advertising Directory

Community Bulletin Board

South Coast Announcements

reviews...

Books and Films
Pattern Language, Rogue States, Anarchy, Mother Jones, The Barn at the End of the World, The Genius Frequency, Prison Writings, Rachel's Daughters