Reaching for Resilience by Christa Hillstrom — YES! Magazine

Reaching for Resilience by Christa Hillstrom — YES! Magazine: "When the rain finally comes to Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, Papa Bear worries that his half-built cistern will cave in.� It's a muddy pile of bricks at the moment that will eventually provide water for two family households.� Ali, sitting next to him on a sofa in the Common House, looks gratefully through the window at the half-mist of spring droplets, thinking of a thirsty patch of vegetables outside her miniature house. In the hall, another resident adjusts the color on the energy board from green to yellow–a code that limits electricity use in the solar-powered Common House during days of foggy rain."