The Promise and Problems of Transparency
Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito presented models of open governance on November 12 at U-Me’s Promise and Problems of Transparency conference. Organized by Desiree Butterfield-Nagy, the event featured a...
View ArticleBelfast Cohousing and Ecovillage wins NRMC award
For the last several years, Still Water Co-Directors Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito have been working with 20 other families to found an ecovillage on the coast of Maine. Now Belfast Cohousing &...
View ArticleBelfast Cohousing & Ecovillage home named LEED Project of the Year
For the past several years, Still Water Co-Director Joline Blais has been working with two dozen other families to found Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage. Now the prototype home for this...
View Article“The future of housing”: George Mitchell breaks ground for Belfast Cohousing...
Senator George Mitchell broke ground in November for Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage, the sustainable community on the coast of Maine that has been called “the future of housing.” Still Water...
View ArticleGrow It Yourself at the 2011 ESTIA conference
At the 8th Annual ESTIA EcoPeace Conference, Still Water Co-Director Joline Blais asked her audience how to get more kids involved in growing food, connecting to the earth, and otherwise participating...
View ArticleGrowing together: the sociology of soil at Belfast Cohousing
There are challenges to forming a harmonious community. But one thing everyone can agree on is the importance of food. While the local food movement encourages us to shop within a hundred-mile radius,...
View ArticleBelfast Cohousing on Maine Public Radio
Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage has grown quickly since breaking ground in the fall. As reported last Wednesday on Maine Public Radio, nine out of 36 homes have already been completed, and the...
View ArticleBelfast Cohousing & Ecovillage reaches critical mass with 32 families
A surge in new members this summer and fall has put Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage in position to build its Common House and complete its ambitious project to build a sustainable community on the...
View ArticleBelfast Cohousing & Ecovillage on Talk of the Towns
The Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage is featured on Ron Beard’s live call-in show Talk of the Towns on radio station WERU on the 25th of January. Still Water Co-Directors Joline Blais and Jon...
View ArticleThe Wired Ecovillage: Can a smart house leave a smaller footprint?
Starting in June 2013, the home of Still Water Co-Directors Jon Ippolito and Joline Blais becomes an experiment in sustainable living through digital feedback. This net-zero-energy unit in the...
View ArticleGrow your own medicine with Healing Seeds
Many of us have important relationships with animals, be they the beloved family dog or the meddlesome raccoon that keeps getting into the garbage. But what about plants? Their relationships to humans...
View ArticleLexicon of Sustainability is a visual lesson in green design
It’s hard to articulate ecological values with a vocabulary inherited from the industrial age. The Lexicon of Sustainability, an exhibition co-curated by Dan Dixon and Still Water’s Joline Blais, aims...
View ArticleJoline Blais’ ecovillage research featured in National Geographic
In an article on the growing cohousing movement, National Geographic magazine interviewed Still Water Co-Director Joline Blais about her research on these “living laboratories for sustainability.”...
View Article“The future of housing”: George Mitchell breaks ground for Belfast Cohousing...
Senator George Mitchell broke ground in November for Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage, the sustainable community on the coast of Maine that has been called “the future of housing.” Still Water...
View ArticleGrow It Yourself at the 2011 ESTIA conference
At the 8th Annual ESTIA EcoPeace Conference, Still Water Co-Director Joline Blais asked her audience how to get more kids involved in growing food, connecting to the earth, and otherwise participating...
View ArticleGrowing together: the sociology of soil at Belfast Cohousing
There are challenges to forming a harmonious community. But one thing everyone can agree on is the importance of food. While the local food movement encourages us to shop within a hundred-mile radius,...
View ArticleBelfast Cohousing on Maine Public Radio
Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage has grown quickly since breaking ground in the fall. As reported last Wednesday on Maine Public Radio, nine out of 36 homes have already been completed, and the scene...
View ArticleBelfast Cohousing & Ecovillage reaches critical mass with 32 families
A surge in new members this summer and fall has put Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage in position to build its Common House and complete its ambitious project to build a sustainable community on the...
View ArticleBelfast Cohousing & Ecovillage on Talk of the Towns
The Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage is featured on Ron Beard’s live call-in show Talk of the Towns on radio station WERU on the 25th of January. Still Water Co-Directors Joline Blais and Jon...
View ArticleThe Wired Ecovillage: Can a smart house leave a smaller footprint?
Starting in June 2013, the home of Still Water Co-Directors Jon Ippolito and Joline Blais becomes an experiment in sustainable living through digital feedback. This net-zero-energy unit in the...
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