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   The Dancing Rabbit Project, a group starting to build a rural
ecologically sustainable town, is having another open house and information
session on Sunday, June 23, 1996. The meeting is a vegetarian potluck and
will take place in Berkeley, California, from 5 until 9 pm.

   All are welcome. For a brief overview of Dancing Rabbit, please keep
reading! For even more info, peruse our web site at
http://www.1reality.org/dancing-rabbit/DR.html. Or, feel free to email us
at dancing-rabbit@cs.stanford.edu or call at (510) 845-1759.

   If you live in the Bay Area of California, we'd love to see you in
attendance! We're easy to find; please contact us for directions. Since we
will be moving to Illinois or Missouri in August, we'd also like to hear from
environmental and community minded individuals or associations in
Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

   Thanks for reading!
   Cecil Scheib
   skyhouse@hooked.net
   for DR

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   The Dancing Rabbit Project is a group of individuals who desire true
environmental sustainability. Rather than the "quick fixes" or band-aid
efforts of the mainstream, we are interested in long-term societal and
technological changes that will ensure the integrity of the ecosphere, and
the well-being of humans, far into the future.

   We believe that it is impossible to live sustainably while enmeshed in
the consumer culture, but humanly difficult to live independently in
isolation. Therefore, we envision a locally self- reliant town committed
to radical environmental sustainability -- a place where one can get one's
livelihood and happiness without causing environmental degradation. We
intend to build such a town.

   Fully realized, Dancing Rabbit will be a small town with about 1000
residents. We will be housed in a variety of living arrangements, eat a
variety of foods, and work on varied projects. It will be a society
flexible enough to include egalitarian communities, cohousing, individual
households, and hermits. But while we may have different approaches to
some issues, the common desire for environmental sustainability will
underlie all key decisions at Dancing Rabbit.

   Although Dancing Rabbit will strive for self-sufficiency and economic
independence, we will not be sequestered from mainstream America. Rather,
outreach and education are integral to our goals. We will vigorously
promote ourselves as a viable example of sustainable living and spread our
ideas and discoveries through visitor programs, academic and other
publications, speaking engagements, and the like.

   Currently, Dancing Rabbit has some members living cooperatively in
Berkeley, CA as a stepping stone to forming our eventual rural community.
There, we have meetings with the larger membership of DR to discuss our
progress and work together towards our goals. We hope to be moved to a
rural site somewhere in the US, probably in Illinois, by spring of 1997.
At this point, we make decisions by consensus.

   We also have an extensive e-mail discussion list and publish a
newsletter. If you are interested in being a part of Dancing Rabbit please
write, call, or e-mail us to get more information, find out when our next
meeting is, or arrange a visit. We are especially looking for preexisting
groups interested in pooling resources with us and/or forming a community
within the town of Dancing Rabbit.