I’ve written several posts now on Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti, and his vision of cities as mostly-self-sufficient, compact communities instead of sprawling and isolating urban blights…
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Collie
Dashing and eclectic scholar-about-town. Have laptop, will travel!
What is Community? part 3: Soleri’s definitions
So does CoH qualify as a community? Does Arcosanti as it stands today, or Lupin Lodge? Paolo Soleri (who is still alive, though I speak…
Continue ReadingWhat is Community? part 2: City of Heroes
What causes a feeling of community? What creates a coherent sub-culture? Both my housemates play on the on-line multiple-player game City of Heroes, which is…
Continue ReadingPlanning the Natural Yard
Okay, this posting is going to be a not-so-quick recap of stuff I want to keep track of for my yard work, and I’ll keep…
Continue ReadingMore on Griffin’s “Woman & Nature”
Susan Griffin’s ecofeminist book Woman & Nature: The Roaring Inside Her is considered ground-breaking in the field. Written in 1978 in a poetic and then-uniquely…
Continue ReadingYard photos: Before
Here are the handful of photos I took of my “Place in Nature” for my Ecofeminism independent study class: my front yard before I’ve tried…
Continue ReadingJournaling while reading Griffin’s “Woman & Nature”
Later edit: I’ve been informed I wasn’t clear regarding this posting — sorry! I should have said what I am describing, in my comments below,…
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I’m crossing my fingers that Carol (my professor for my independent study in Ecofeminist Philosophy & Activism) will like the idea of my using the…
Continue ReadingArcosanti photos
More Arcosanti photos; click on the thumbnails for a larger, clearer version of each photo. Also, you can read my thoughts on Arcosanti here, for…
Continue ReadingEscape from San Francisco
I’m writing this as I’m heading home on BART from the one class I had/chose to take in this year’s CIIS Intensive. It’s kind of…
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