“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 ArticleWho will be heard when we wire the wilderness?
How can rural economies and ecologies benefit from wired citizens? Still Water Fellow Miigam’agan and co-director Joline Blais tackle the subject along with New Media colleague Bill Kuykendall at two...
View ArticleHacking the victual and virtual at USC
This week Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito join forces for a series of presentations at USC organized by Craig Dietrich, Still Water Senior Researcher and co-creator of Scalar. The week culminates on...
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 ArticleLA Green Grounds replaces lawns with lettuce
According to Streetsblog Los Angeles‘ Sahra Sulaiman, Still Water Fellows Vanessa Vobis, Craig Dietrich, and collaborators are “saving the world, one garden at a time.” Their project LA Green Grounds...
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 ArticleMaking communities resilient with Joline Blais and gkisedtanamoogk
Still Water Co-Director Joline Blais and Still Water Research Fellow gkisedtanamoogk both spoke at Building Sustainable Communities: International, National and Local Perspectives, held at the...
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 ArticleJoline Blais’ ESTIA keynote emphasizes grounded collaborations
At the 2016 ESTIA conference, Still Water co-director and New Media professor Joline Blais used her keynote address to acknowledge a number of the most important practitioners who have contributed to...
View ArticleGrant promotes interdisciplinary approach to sustainability
How can universities contribute to a healthy planet? One way is to partner with local organizations, as explored in a grant won by the University of Maine to become a Campus for Environmental...
View ArticleWild Blueberry Museum nourishes local ecologies and economies
The Maine Wild Blueberry Museum spearheaded by Joline Blais exemplifies Still Water‘s commitment to nourishing local networks–in this case, both the ecological and economic sort. The project aims to...
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 ArticleMaking communities resilient with Joline Blais and gkisedtanamoogk
Still Water Co-Director Joline Blais and Still Water Research Fellow gkisedtanamoogk both spoke at Building Sustainable Communities: International, National and Local Perspectives, held at the...
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...
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