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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.

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. (more...)

Expert in suburban and urban development and Best selling author, of The Geography of Nowhere, and The Long Emergency, J Howard Kunstler: “NewEarthLiving 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-evidently 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!”

Pocket Neighborhoods

Dwelling Circles are Pocket Neighborhoods plus three important additions: Sustainability, social justice and intentional creation of trust, respect and care with the Listening Workshop.

Good developments come in small packages

Review by Philip Langdon New Urban Network

Pocket Neighborhoods Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World By Ross Chapin

Ross Chapin’s  cottage courts and clusters of eight to 12 modest-sized houses, organized around a shared green space, looked immensely appealing every time I saw them pictured in magazines.

In this beautifully illustrated hardcover, Chapin, tells how, as a young architect, he focused on “designing individual homes fitted to the clients’ particular needs and their sites.

“Yet no matter how well designed these homes may have been, I was left with the nagging feeling that I wasn’t able to address the needs and desires of living in a community,” Chapin writes. “Nearly all the neighborhoods I worked in were merely collections of individual houses … with little real connection among neighbors.” Eventually he met developer Jim Soules, who set him on a course of designing clusters of cottages — mini-communities tucked into their larger neighborhoods. He and Soules were onto something: “pocket neighborhoods” which “can help mend the web of belonging, care, and support needed in a frayed world.” They found there was a market waiting: people who desired simplicity in a home, who “wanted to live in a ground-based single-family neighborhood, without the long to-do lists that come with family-sized houses (more…)