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'EcoVillages' are one type of Intentional Community proposed
as an alternative to living in cities.
There are thousands of experimental ecovillages in the west (most of which fail)
and in this chapter we introduce some of the most successful.
However, we consider important that we reclaim this term 'eco-village'
by acknowledging that, as sustainability designers, what we have the most to learn
from are the 'Sustainable EcoVillages', i.e. the oldest surviving human settlements
(= of proven sustainability), that exist to this day, and which our ancestors continually perfected through countless experiments from 2 million years ago to this day.
Sustainable EcoVillages
Sustainable EcoVillages
The most expert 'ecovillage designers' are those we often call 'primitive people' (when in fact they are contemporary humans), or 'tribal people'.
Adding More Experiences
Adding More Experiences
Here are other links to significant community-building projects, more like the Marinaleda example:
Stateless Democracy: The Kurdish Women Movement
The BAUEN Cooperative
and we hope you will help us add to this list in this FB thread:
and in many ways could be considered to have a much higher standard of living than civilized humans
that we have the most to learn from.
People, like most other mammals, have lived in small sustainable communities since the dawn of time,
Stop! Rodando el Cambio - subtitle in english
Stop! Rodando el Cambio - subtitle in english
See in YouTube - click white rectangle bottom right for subtitles
Stop! Filming the Change is a documentary filmed by a team of women & collectively financed. During one month we journey through different alternatives between Spain & France searching out ways of life which are more respectful of the environment & the people who live there.
The theory of de-growth in which we base ourselves warns us of the impossibility of keeping on producing as we have in a planet of finite resources. These levels of consumption have led to the disappearance of forests, to contaminated rivers & seas, & toxic food systems ... all of which are fed by the financial speculative markets & a political class that doesn't care about the social or environmental dimensions.
How much longer can we wait in order to have a world-wide planetary change? Is it possible to live happily whilst reducing drastically our needs?
Two EcoVillages in Brazil
Two EcoVillages in Brazil
Ecovillages and Permaculture: a reference
model for sustainable consumption?
There's a dialogue in our FB group about this (click icon to go there)
This is a documentary about ecovillages and permaculture seen from a sustainable consumption perspective. The intention is to show an example of lifestyles that take sustainability to the extreme, living and consuming in a way that causes minimum impact on the planet.
GEN - Global EcoVillage Network
GEN - Global EcoVillage Network
There is a great resource of articles on EcoVillages on the GEN site, which you can download in pdf format:
http://gen.ecovillage.org/iservices/publications/articles.php
The EcoVillage Challenge
The EcoVillage Challenge
The challenge of developing a community living in balanced harmony - with itself as well as nature - is tough, but attainable, byRobert Gilman
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