EcoCommunity

At an abandoned garage downtown, about 70 people celebrated Saturday in the place some of them will one day call home. Members of the Durham Central Park Cohousing Community plan a fourstory, 24unit, ecofriendly communal condominium on Hunt Street.

Leafing through the latest environmental news, we ran across six predictions for green IT in 2012. We like that sort of thing, predictions. What we really like is running across “Predictions for 2010″ online, and having a good chuckle. Anyway, there it was, Prediction 1 for green IT in 2012: “Greenwashing is dead.” Really. Do tell. Nobody invited us to the ecofuneral.

The Comstock Township Planning Commission has granted preliminary approval to a schematic site plan for the Manitou Arbor Ecovillage plannedunit development.

Oakland artist, educator, and activist Marc Bamuthi Joseph was recently named the director of performing arts for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. But he has no plans to trade in his art for an administration job. He says hell continue his brand of spoken word theater while continuing his curatorial and teaching practices.

Well meaning environmentalists may push rhetoric devoid of action when they urge us to create sustainable futures for our children. Sounds good. But what does it mean? Such heady talk from academics meant to turn us green often leaves me with the blues.

The most striking factor of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy protests was the stark difference between reports of the events and the reality, writes Tracker editor Amy McQuire. Read more on the blog…

Following our critical view of what we saw as the worst management terms of 2011 , we were delighted by the general response and to find such common concern over the diabolical increase in management jargon.