WE ARE BREAKING GROUND IN JUNE!!
March 2, 2012
Aurora Dwelling Circle homes are ready for pre-sale
January 1, 2012
TO SEE PLANS CLICK ON “WHAT WE DO” - THE AURORA STREET POCKET NEIGHBORHOOD!
Picture by permission from Ross Chapin Pocket Neighborhoods: Project: Greenwood Avenue Cottages Architect: Ross Chapin Architects Developer: The Cottage Company. This picture is a representation of the two homes adjacent to the alley in the Aurora Dwelling Circle.
New Earth Living LLC is a housing development company and general contractor committed to creating a new model for living that fosters social connection, affordability and a small ecological footprint!
These micro-communities are designed to foster interaction among residents and make it easy for neighbors to share resources and live happier, simpler, less resource-dependent lives. Residents can participate in the design of common spaces and the customization of their individual homes. email: coz@newearthliving.net 607-327-1081
We are currently designing the homes of the Aurora Dwelling Circle to incorporate many of the principles from the book: Pocket Neighborhoods, by Ross Chapin: www.pocket-neighborhoods.net
Just beyond the porches of the three new homes are small private gardens creating peaceful personal spaces for residents to nurture and enjoy.
Connected to Community
August 2, 2011
Written by 
Rachel Stern Ithaca Journal rstern@gannett.com
Instead of blue jeans and green Greater Ithaca
Activities Center Conservation Corps T-shirts, Susan Cosentini thought they should wear red capes and blue shorts like Superman.
She suggested this wardrobe change to eight 13-year-olds who were taking apart two old barns on Aurora Street Monday afternoon. The barns, which Cosentini owns, were being dismantled and salvaged to make way for three new sustainable homes to be built on-site.
“Basically, you people are the change agents in the world,” she said to the group of students. “I will be dead when the benefit of all this starts to happen, so hopefully you and your children will benefit from it. By working here today, you are saving the world.”
Finger Lakes Read the rest of this page » ReUse teamed up with the GIAC Summer Conservation Corps to take down the barns and salvage the building materials. Then, Cosentini’s New Earth Living LLC will build The Aurora Dwelling Circle in place of the barns.
Sharing, caring, living gently on the earth… utopia? nope, just the future
June 10, 2011
The Earth Is Full
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: June 7, 2011
You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?
“The only answer can be denial,” argues Paul Gilding, the veteran Australian environmentalist-entrepreneur, who described this moment in a new book called “The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World.” “When you are surrounded by something so big that requires you to change everything about the way you think and see the world, then denial is the natural response. But the longer we wait, the bigger the response required.”
Gilding cites the work of the Global Footprint Network, an alliance of scientists, which calculates how many “planet Earths” we need to sustain our current growth rates. G.F.N. measures how much land and water area we need to produce the resources we consume and absorb our waste, using prevailing technology. On the whole, says G.F.N., we are currently growing at a rate that is using up the Earth’s resources far faster than they can be sustainably replenished, so we are eating into the future. Right now, global growth is using about 1.5 Earths. “Having only one planet makes this a rather significant problem,” says Gilding.
This is not science fiction. This is what happens when our system of growth and the system of nature hit the wall at once. While in Yemen last year, I saw a tanker truck delivering water in the capital, Sana. Why? Because Sana could be the first big city in the world to run out of water, within a decade. That is what happens when one generation in one country lives at 150 percent of sustainable capacity.
“If you cut down more trees than you grow, you run out of trees,” writes Gilding. “If you put additional nitrogen into a water system, you change the type and quantity of life that water can support. If you thicken the Earth’s CO2 blanket, the Earth gets warmer. If you do all these and many more things at once, you change the way the whole system of planet Earth behaves, with social, economic, and life support impacts. This is not speculation; this is high school science.”
WATCH
June 9, 2011
We are currently forming our first small, urban eco-village!
May 25, 2011
If everyone on Earth lived as Americans do, we would need 5 Earths to sustain us.
In fact, we only have this ONE perfect little blue miracle we live on.
The 
™ initiative asserts that through our combined efforts, intention and creativity we can reduce the ecological footprint of 5 people or 5 households down to that of one person or one household.
The aim is that all 7 billion of us, as well as generations to come, live respectfully and sustainably on this precious, staggeringly beautiful planet.
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Partnership with the Earth and each other!
May 19, 2011
By Anne Marie Cummings in Tompkins Weekly
Susan Cosentini and Rob Morache at the communal garden of the Aurora Dwelling Circle.
The Aurora Dwelling Circle Read the rest of this page »
(ADC) brings the principals of
EcoVillage to downtown Ithaca.
Susan Cosentini, of Cosentini Construction and New Earth Living
is at the helm of ADC, a pilot project located
at 519-523 N. Aurora St. She will receive $25,000,
a portion of the federal grant, for energy modeling
and monitoring equipment .
Cosentini expects the groundbreaking
for the pilot project, with a total estimated cost
of $800,000, to happen in late summer or early
fall.
As the founder and owner of New Earth
Living, as well as the developer of the ADC and
future dwelling circles, Cosentini is thrilled.
“Dwelling circles are small, urban eco-villages
of five to eight households, supporting neighbor
relationships and resource sharing, while
respecting privacy and individuality,” she
explains. Dwelling Circles offer complete, individual
dwelling units, with shared indoor and outdoor
spaces for social gatherings, recreation,
and other uses such as a bike garage, workshop,
yard and garden, root cellar, basement storage
area and a large kitchen and entertainment area
available for community dinners.
One of eight advisors on New Earth Living’s
board is James Howard Kunstler, an expert in
suburban and urban development and peak oil,
as well as the author of “The Geography of
Nowhere” and “The Long Emergency.” “New
Earth Living is doing a great job of re-thinking
the way we live in the U.S.A. as the fiasco of suburbia
becomes more and more self-evidently
crazy,” he says.
Riane Eisler, another New Earth Living board
member, is a social scientist and the bestselling
author of “The Chalice and the Blade” and “The
Real Wealth of Nations.” “This paradigm shifting,
comprehensive approach to living offers a
new model for people to live in partnership with
each other and the earth,” she says.
Author of the Real Wealth of Nations – Riane Eisler:
May 16, 2011
“I enthusiastically support New Earth Living and the Dwelling Circle concept, this paradigm shifting, comprehensive approach to living offers a new model for people to live in partnership with each other and the earth!”
Community Building/Conscious Communication
May 15, 2011
Commun-ity/Commun-ication; It is no coincidence that Community and Communication have the same base word: Commune: to be in a state of intimate sensitivity and receptivity.
What if instead of information transfer; communication meant being sensitive and receptive in conversation?
What if instead of a geographical area or like-minded people; community meant a group of people that are sensitive and receptive to each other?
We have designed a 4 hour workshop that demonstrates and teaches this skill.
Communication is the basis of Community. Community is the core of Resiliency and Resiliency is at the heart of Sustainability
“It is the the opportunities for informal interactions that allow people to get to know their neighbors, and it is these interactions that provide the roots for true community to flourish” Sarah Susanka in her forward to Pocket Neighborhoods by Ross Chapin
The Conscious Communication Workshop:
A Model for the Future!
May 6, 2011
Expert in suburban and urban development and Best selling author, of The Geography of Nowhere, and The Long Emergency, J Howard Kunstler: “NewEart
hLiving is doing a great job of re-thinking the way we live in the USA as the fiasco of suburbia become more and more self-eviden
tly crazy.”
Riane Eisler: Eminent social scientist. Bestselling author of The Chalice and the Blade and The Real Wealth of Nations and president of the Center for Partnership Studies. “I enthusiastically support New Earth Living and the Dwelling Circle concept, this paradigm shifting, comprehensive approach to living offers a new model for people to live in partnership with each other and the earth!”
