institute without boundaries

in an effort to put something meaningful up on the blog, here's a very cool program a friend of mine is working on up north in toronto. it's called the Institute Without Boundaries and is actually doing what my favorite KV quote (up there in the header) talks about: creating stable communities.

i'm not sure if these stable, green communities help alleviate loneliness, but they're a step in the right direction. the concept of creating utopian communities has fascinated me for as long as i can remember, and it's neat a thoughtful program is trying to strike a balance between crazy-utopia (the farm, pennsylvania) and viable-world-changing-utopia (the farm, pennsylvania).

[i wish there was still a quaker utopia ... sort of. i would have to go visit my family there then, and people would silently judge me for eating meat and shopping at wal-mart. or for shopping at all. this is an intelligent post about the dangers of utopias ...]