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As the days get shorter, we’re getting ready for big things. Read up on what’s new at Arcosanti, Cosanti, and The Cosanti Foundation with our November newsletter. To subscribe to our email list and receive future newsletters, go here.

by Alyssa Lutker, AmeriCorps VISTA For The Cosanti Foundation, our mission to be “sustainably integrated with the natural world” means talking dirty. In other words, we have to talk about waste management.  Two ways The Cosanti Foundation has tried to create a more sustainable waste management system include updating our toilets and utilization of a natural wastewater treatment system. Although

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The Cosanti Foundation is excited to announce the beginning of a partnership with Arizona State University’s Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics. Learn more about the incredible potentials of this new relationship by watching our presentation at their annual meeting this month. To learn more about ASU-CBBG, go here.

In 1970, a unique architectural experiment began in the high desert about 70 miles north of Phoenix. We call this special place Arcosanti, an arcology prototype and urban laboratory. Over 51 years, more than 8000 volunteers came to build these walls (and floors and ceilings and sidewalks and so much else) during ongoing 5- and 6-week construction workshops that were

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Autumn brings welcome changes and golden opportunities. Read up on what’s new at Arcosanti, Cosanti, and The Cosanti Foundation with our October newsletter. To subscribe to our email list and receive future newsletters, go here.

Our monthly email newsletter is back! Read up on what’s been going on at Arcosanti, Cosanti, and The Cosanti Foundation. To subscribe to our email list and receive future newsletters, go here.

Should we start reconsidering the Arcology model in the face of growing weather and health risks? I’ve been a fan of Arcologies ever since I learned the term and realized its potential to protect employees. Had Apple or Facebook built one instead of more traditional office structures, their employees likely wouldn’t have had to change their work environments. The employee’s kids could

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  The City & Narrative by Nathan Hays   African acacias protect themselves from herbivores by producing a poison within their leaves when they are damaged. But these miraculous plants have a far more surprising strategy. They speak, and they listen, in a language that moves by us unnoticed. An ethylene compound fills the air around them and is carried

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“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” That was the French mathematician and Catholic theologian Blaise Pascal writing in the mid-1600’s. Now, some 350 years later, many of the 8 billion of us humans alive on the planet today get to see if he was correct. Just looking out at the sky,

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By Timothy Bell Over this past weekend, Arcosanti hosted the annual Convergence Conference and Festival. During these three days, experts working in the fields of social justice, science, agroecology, permaculture, and beyond, all gathered to exchange ideas and celebrate at the Urban Laboratory. Our challenge to ourselves this year was to prove that a Festival could be regenerative. The dream

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