9 Taunton Avenue
9 Taunton Avenue has been designated as the "ECCO" house for the 2007-2008 academic year.
The Ecco House's focus is on bringing a sustainable way of life to our community and the Wheaton community through ecological, spiritual, social, and academic means.
Ecologically, we bring mindfulness to our daily practices within the house by using Eco friendly cleaning products, collecting grey water from sinks and showers to flush the toilet, conserving energy, and experimenting with different food composting methods. Members of the house are mostly vegetarian, and support local and organically grown foods. Eco day, once a week, where our goal is to live as lightly on the earth as possible using the bare minimum of energy as limiting our use of words.
Spiritually, the house celebrates the natural cycles of life by restoring a healthy relationship with the earth and all beings. Drawing on many inclusive religious and spiritual rituals that bring awareness to the ecological crisis in the world.
Socially, students in the ECCO house place a great importance on being a supportive community for each other and the Wheaton campus as a whole, by sharing various responsibilities equally as well as hosting a monthly potluck open to the Wheaton community. The Ecco House is very active in the Progressive Alliance hosts weekly meetings to promote ways to get involved locally and globally.
Finally, each member of the house is currently taking courses and engaging in meaningful discussions that relate to our intentions of living interconnected with all beings.
9Taunton: EECO House
President: Thomas Skiba/Whitney Johnson
Advisor: Barbara Darling-Smith