For years this blog has focused on ways we can ground ourselves in practical real estate solutions for sustainable innovation. Much of what has been written here has to do with choices in real estate that include growing community and the everyday challenges of providing a healthy-built home, becoming energy efficient, getting hands-on when it comes to locally grown and harvested food, and fostering relationships of respect 
and appreciation.
And, over these years I have noticed that more and more people are interested in information about these practical real estate solutions. As Sarah van Gelder Executive Editor, YES! Magazine points out more and more people are " creating more resilient ways of life in the face of uncertain times-turning to each other for the security they don't find in the business-as-usual world."
" I sit behind my cabin and look up at sun filtering through the massive cedar trees and hear the same wind rustling the tree needles as has been heard for thousands of years, " she writes. " I have food to eat, a place to lay my head, and my family is safe. But I know many others are not so lucky..."
The idea of resilient communities is not a new one. Here in Asheville, you will find a good number including : Hickory Nut Forest, (see photo)an authentic eco-community we love to talk about...and the "shared backyard" communities of West Asheville where permaculture and conversations about envisioning a positive world ahead for today's children are commonplace. This month's issue of YES! takes a look at that world and our part in it....and the life affirming ways to build your home places.
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