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☆ I'm a millennial first-time buyer who moved into a micro home village. I had to downsize my stuff, but it was worth it for the community.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kristi Campbell, a 28-year-old business consultant, who moved into micro-home community South Park Cottages in 2023. In 2022, my boyfriend sent me a link to South Park Cottages' website, a Black-owned tiny home village. South Park Cottages afforded me the opportunity to buy my first home sooner than planned — it was the official stamp for adulthood. AdvertisementBefore I was even considered for a home at South Park Cottages, I had to be pre-approved for the full loan amount of the home. I chose South Park Cottages' preferred lender, along with a preferred closing attorney.

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And perhaps best of all, money — from selling the electricity generated by the wind turbines studding the flat green fields stretching out to the North Sea. A slice of the cash goes to the villagers themselves, with the local buy-in making this windy farming enclave near the border with Denmark a showcase for ways to push ahead with renewable energy projects. The S&P Global Clean Energy Index of shares in companies with clean energy-related businesses has fallen 26% over the past year, even as broader market indexes have surged to records. In sub-Saharan Africa, where half the population lacks access to electricity, renewable projects face even steeper challenges with financing. In Nigeria, where blackouts are an everyday event for about half of the country’s 213 million people, some 14 solar projects have stalled because the finances don’t add up.

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A day after Trump's visit last year, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg went to East Palestine. But soon after the East Palestine derailment, some local officials began to criticize the Biden administration for the lack of a presidential visit. Biden issued an executive order requiring Norfolk Southern to pay for any long-term cleanup efforts. At a White House briefing this week, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden was traveling to East Palestine at the mayor's invitation. Deeter, a member of a local advocacy group, River Valley Organizing, hopes Biden's visit is more than a photo-op.

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When Israel established a checkpoint near the Mousas' land a decade ago, the family converted their ancestral farm into a parking lot for Palestinian workers entering Israel. But the lot has been empty since Oct. 7, when Hamas militants attacked Israel from the Gaza Strip, and Israel, fearing more attacks, barred Palestinian workers from the West Bank from entering Israel. Before October, over 10,000 Palestinian workers crossed the checkpoint there daily, heading to Israeli construction sites and farms. An estimated 200,000 Palestinians worked in Israel and Israeli settlements before the war, according to the Israeli workers' hotline Kav LaOved. The Palestinian economy in the West Bank contracted by over a fifth in the last quarter of 2023, according to the Palestinian economic ministry.

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☆ Israeli teen ran 'operations room' as Hamas came to kill her family
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Eli Berlzon | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

First the gunmen fired through the door, seriously wounding both Hadar's father, Avida, and her 15-year-old brother, Carmel. Eventually, the militants would rupture the reinforced window with explosives and shoot her mother, Dana, through the gap. That began with a wardrobe being jammed against the other side of their safe room door and set alight. "They also used tires. But we were in survival mode and she was, in all honesty, a superstar," her father said.

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☆ See inside a tiny-home village that gives homeless people $200-a-month houses — and has a waiting list of 700 people
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Millionaire Marcel LeBrun is building a tiny-home village in Canada, just north of the Maine border. AdvertisementAdvertisementIt's been nearly two years since 12Neighbours, a tiny-home village in Canada, welcomed its first resident. Marcel LeBrun at the 12Neighbours tiny-home village. Take a look inside the 12Neighbours tiny-home village. A resident of the 12Neighbours tiny-home village.

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☆ Israeli settler attacks fuel the fire as Gaza war rages
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( John Davison | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

Ben-Gvir's office did not respond to a request for comment about whether guns had already been distributed in the West Bank. At least eight of those were since Oct 7. alone, worrying ordinary Palestinians, Israeli security experts and Western officials. Washington has condemned settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank while the European Union on Tuesday denounced "settler terrorism" that risked a "dangerous escalation of the conflict." Hamas cited Israeli actions in the West Bank, core to a would-be Palestinian state, in waging its killing spree. 'GREAT DANGER'Settler-related violence is becoming harder to stem with the ongoing Gaza war and the augmented power of far-right politicians, Israeli security experts say.

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☆ Ukraine accuses two men of helping guide missile that killed dozens in Hroza village
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Max Hunder | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsKYIV, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Ukraine's domestic intelligence service on Wednesday accused two villagers who fled to Russia of helping guide a missile strike that killed dozens of people, mostly civilians, at a soldiers' wake in the Ukrainian village of Hroza. The Oct. 5 strike was the deadliest attack in Ukraine this year, and one of the worst since Russia invaded in February 2022. The SBU said the men fled to Russia shortly before Ukraine regained control of the village in September last year. After this, the agency said the men continued to work for Russia by building a network of informants in Ukraine. When Reuters visited the village last Friday, two residents said that SBU officials had visited the village and checked residents' phones after the attack.

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☆ Ukrainian village's sole resident, 76, unafraid after 4,000 km odyssey home
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Vitalii Hnydyi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

But Vira Chernukha, 76 and now the sole resident of a northeastern Ukrainian village bombed and depopulated by Russian invaders, has no intention of ever leaving Dementiivka again. Nowadays, she keeps busy fixing the damage to her yard and tending to a monument to Ukrainian soldiers who died defending the village. When she woke up, she was in a hospital room in Belgorod, a city just over the Russian border. "We travelled via Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to Lviv and then Vinnitsya," she said, referring to two western Ukrainian cities. Ukrainian forces retook much of the country's northeast last year in a lightning counteroffensive that caught Russian troops off guard.

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☆ Ukrainian troops vow to take back Bakhmut but say it won't be easy
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Anna Voitenko | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said this week that Kyiv would retake the city following the capture last week of Andriivka and Klishchiivka to the south. But it won't be easy because Russia will still fight hard for it, demonstrated by the ferocity of the combat his unit had just endured in the outlying villages. One shouldn't think that the counter-offensive and taking Bakhmut is easy: (that) we just flank them, close reinforcements routes and it is done. HEAVY FIREUkrainian soldiers who spoke to Reuters at a location about 20 km (12 miles) from Andriivka described a bloody slog, costing lives for every metre, before they ultimately vanquished the village's Russian defenders. "Our comrades from another unit came from one side.

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☆ A village on an Italian island is providing free housing to digital nomads
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Silvia Marchetti | Poonam Binayak | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Last week, Partis landed in the Sardinian village of Ollolai in Italy for a free stay paid by the local municipality. She's the first digital nomad to arrive — and already she said it feels like a life-changer. Source: Veronica Matta"That was a major success — many foreigners bought and restyled dozens of forsaken dwellings," said Mayor Francesco Columbu told CNBC. "Now, after investing in high-speed internet, with this new project 'Work from Ollolai' we want to make our village a digital nomad hub." Source: Veronica Matta"I just had to give my landowner a symbolic one euro for the house rental," said Partis.

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☆ A 91-year-old Ukrainian woman who fled Russians twice in her lifetime cursed 'Putin's bastards' for ruining her final years
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An elderly Ukrainian woman recounted her experiences fleeing Russian invaders twice before she died. Kateryna Lihusha told The Wall Street Journal that she first fled home as a baby in 1932. Before she died, Lihusha was among the millions of Ukrainians who were displaced by the war and are now scattered throughout Europe and beyond. The first time Lihusha fled Russian invaders was as a baby in her mother's arms in 1932, the Journal reported. Lihusha died a year later of kidney disease.

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☆ 5 costly mistakes the Russian military has made since it invaded Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Coverage of the grueling conflict has, in part, been characterized by a litany of Russian military mistakes that began early and continue to crop up. Advertisement Advertisement Watch: VIDEO: Why Russia's military is failing so far in UkraineHere are 5 military mistakes Russia has made since February 24, 2022. Putin vowed Russian troops would take the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv within a matter of days. AdvertisementAdvertisementA man wearing a Ukrainian flag visits an avenue where destroyed Russian military vehicles have been displayed ahead of Independence Day in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. There are several examples throughout the war of Russian troops and leaders harming their own side.

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☆ Ukraine reports new attack on grain silos but cargo ship sets sail
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Pavel Polityuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

[1/2] Hong Kong-flagged container ship Joseph Schulte leaves the sea port, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine, in this handout picture released August 16, 2023. Russia has made regular air strikes on Ukrainian ports and grain silos since mid-July, when it pulled out of the U.N.-backed deal for Ukraine to export grain. Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), which owns the ship jointly with a Chinese bank, confirmed that the ship was en route to Istanbul. Kubrakov said it was carrying more than 30,000 metric tons of cargo in 2,114 containers, adding that the corridor would primarily be used to evacuate ships from the Black Sea ports of Chornomorsk, Odesa and Pivdennyi. DANUBE PORTSUkraine turned to its Danube river ports after Russia pulled out of the Black Sea grain deal seeking better terms for exports of its own food and fertilizer.

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☆ Ukraine retakes southeast village of Urozhaine from Russian forces - Kyiv
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

KYIV, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces have recaptured the village of Urozhaine from Russian troops in the southeast and dug in on its outskirts, Kyiv's deputy defence minister said on Wednesday. Russian military bloggers said fierce fighting raged near the village and that Russian units were trying to prevent Ukraine strengthening its positions in Urozhaine. In a sign of the difficulty of the battlefield operations, Urozhaine is the first village Ukraine says it has retaken since June 27 when it announced the recapture of neighbouring Staromaiorske. Kyiv says its counteroffensive push is progressing slower than it wanted because of vast Russian minefields and prepared Russian defensive lines. The recapture of Urozhaine would bring Ukraine closer to threatening the village of Staromlynivka, several kilometres to the south, which military analysts say serves as a Russian stronghold in the area.

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☆ I left my life in DC to live in a 400-square-foot tiny home near Tampa. I feel like I have more space and I'm saving money so I don't regret it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Brittany Chang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Stefanie Mortenson, a 53-year-old HR director, moved from Virginia to a tiny home near Tampa, Florida in May. Her 396-square-foot dwelling at Escape Tampa Bay Village's tiny home community cost her $159,000. Mortenson says she's saving money and feels like she has more space compared to her previous Virginia apartment. In 1998, I moved to Alexandria, Virginia about 10 miles from Washington, DC for a better career opportunity. The walls started coming in on meIn May, 53-year-old Stefanie Mortenson moved from her apartment in Virginia to 396-square-foot tiny home in Escape Tampa Bay Village's The Oaks neighborhood.

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☆ I run a tiny-home community in Texas for women fleeing toxic relationships
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Needing a way to support herself financially, she opened her own tiny-home village in 2019. After a few let downs, I heard about a gentleman from Decatur, Texas, who was building a tiny-home village and charging people $450 to rent land. The Bird's Nest tiny-home village. I created The Bird's Nest to support women that are in needThe Bird's Nest logo. Courtesy of Robyn YerianThe Bird's Nest focuses on empowering womenIn June, The Bird's Nest hosted its first-ever builder workshop.

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☆ A Texas real-estate investor created a tiny home village where sites rent for $700. Its residents get a slice of the American dream, and have formed a tight-knit community. See inside.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The village has 13 lots that cost renters, who bring their own tiny homes, around $700 each month. He encountered an array of tiny homes, non-mortgaged houses or cabins that are typically under 600 square feet. The waitlist for a spot in Lake Dallas Tiny Home Village is nearly a dozen long. While each resident's home is uniquely built, several were constructed by either Indigo River Tiny Homes or Decathlon Tiny Homes. The community garden at Lake Dallas Tiny Home Village.

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☆ Village garbage man helped unearth ancient bronze statues in Tuscany
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Alvise Armellini | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

About two dozen bronze statues from the third century BC to the first century AD, extracted from the ruins of an ancient spa, will go on display in Rome's Quirinale Palace from June 22, after months of restoration. When the discovery was announced in November, experts called it the biggest collection of ancient bronze statues ever found in Italy and hailed it as a breakthrough that would "rewrite history". The statues were found in 2021 and 2022 in the hilltop village of San Casciano dei Bagni, still home to popular thermal baths, where archaeologists had long suspected ancient ruins could be discovered. Digging started in 2019 on a small plot of land next to the village's Renaissance-era public baths, but weeks of excavations revealed "only traces of some walls", San Casciano Mayor Agnese Carletti said. Then former bin man and amateur local historian Stefano Petrini had "a flash" of intuition, remembering that years earlier he had seen bits of ancient Roman columns on a wall on the other side of the public baths.

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☆ A digital nomad discovers the downside of remote work: no locals want to hang out with her
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The digital nomad community has grown in tandem with the rise of remote work. Tayler GillThe Digital Nomad Village was established in February 2021 by the Regional Government of Madeira through Startup Madeira. "By the time we got there, the Digital Nomad Village was already pretty established," Gill told Insider. "Their whole thing was to build a community and foster that community for digital nomads coming in." It's easy for the village's digital nomads to socialize with each otherPonta do Sol's Digital Nomad Village isn't just a perch in the sun for folks with laptops.

☆ The mayor of a rich New York suburb says wealthy communities 'are losing their minds' over Gov. Kathy Hochul's plan to increase housing
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Affluent suburban communities around New York City are denouncing the proposal. The mayor of Bronxville, NY told Bloomberg some wealthy communities "are losing their minds." But many of the wealthiest suburban communities around New York City aren't having it. "People in Nassau and Suffolk are losing their minds," Mayor Mary Marvin told Bloomberg. Marvin told Bloomberg that Hochul wouldn't have been elected last fall if she'd campaigned on her housing plan.

☆ A Wisconsin town settled an election tie with a dice roll after also considering pulling names from a hat and drawing straws
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Sarah Al-Arshani | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A village in Wisconsin had a tie in their April election for village board president. Sister Bay decided to determine the next president with a dice roll. Nate Bell beat incumbent Rob Zoschke as the Sister Bay Village Board president after the dice rolled 6-2 in his favor, the BBC reported. "All of us wish that one more person had voted," Village Board of Canvassers member Mary Smythe told NBC26. "It's drawn a lot of interest because it's such an unusual thing," Teich told the BBC.

REUTERS/Lisi NiesnerLUCH, Ukraine, Feb 27 (Reuters) - For a Ukrainian village devastated by war, Cold War bunkers built to withstand a nuclear attack that never happened have proven a lifeline for residents who have spent much of the past year living in them. In April, with their village caught between Russian and Ukrainian forces, Gynzhul, her husband Dmytro and their son moved into a warehouse basement, just before their second-storey apartment was shelled. Ukrainian soldiers pushed the Russians south away from Luch last autumn and by early November had recaptured Kherson city. Gynzhul and the others in her bunker live off humanitarian aid and her 4,000 hryvnia ($109) per month salary from her administrative job in the village. Bunker resident Iryna Sichkar said her son was captured early in the war in Mariupol.

☆ Turkey's last Armenian village fears for its future after quake
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Ece Toksabay | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/5] A view of the damaged altar at the church in Vakifli, the last Armenian village in Turkey, in the aftermath of the deadly earthquake, in Samandag, Turkey, February 24, 2023. REUTERS/Eloisa LopezVAKIFLI, Turkey, Feb 25 (Reuters) - In Turkey's only remaining ethnic Armenian village, Vakifli, the elderly population thank God that not one of them died during the devastating earthquakes that struck the region. They gather at the tea house for shelter and warmth. "Vakifli is all we have, the only Armenian village in Turkey. Now our house is uninhabitable and we live half the time in the tea house and half the time in the tent."

☆ Former EMX Digital employees are furious they were let go without severance after the adtech firm's owner Big Village filed for bankruptcy
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Lauren Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Nearly all staff at adtech firm EMX Digital were laid off this week after parent company Big Village filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Big Village, EMX Digital, and Lake Capital Partner did not respond to a request for comment. EMX Digital got backlogged on payments to publishersTwo of the former EMX Digital employees said that financial problems started last summer, after Big Village rebranded from Engine Group. There were internal rumors that this was when Lake Capital Partners started looking for a buyer for Big Village, according to two former employees. At the same time, EMX Digital stopped paying publishers, and between July and September, EMX Digital was bombarded by emails from publishers who were getting increasingly mad about missed payments, said one former employee.

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