Ecovillages are urban or rural communities of people, who strive to integrate a supportive social environment with a low-impact way of life. To achieve this, they integrate various aspects of ecological design, permaculture, ecological building, green production, alternative energy, community building practices, and much more. The Global Ecovillage Network is a global confederation of people and communities that meet and share their ideas, exchange technologies, develop cultural and educational exchanges, directories and newsletters, and are dedicated to restoring the land and living “sustainable plus” lives by putting more back into the environment than we take out.
The transition model emboldens communities to look peak oil and climate change squarely in the eye and unleash the collective genius of their own people to find the answers to this big question: How are we going to: 1) significantly rebuild resilience (in response to peak oil) , and 2) drastically reduce carbon emissions (in response to climate change)? Transition is a social experiment on a massive scale. What we are convinced of is this: if we wait for the governments, it’ll be too little, too late; if we act as individuals, it’ll be too little; but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time. Everything that you read on this site is the result of real work undertaken in the real world with community engagement at its heart.
THE COHOUSING ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES
Cohousing communities are old-fashioned neighborhoods created with a little ingenuity. They bring together the value of private homes with the benefits of more sustainable living. That means common facilities and good connections with neighbors. All in all, they stand as innovative answers to today’s environmental and social problems. Provides information and resources for learning about, building, or living in cohousing. Includes community listing, classified ads section, updates and news about cohousing, online library, magazine and more.
Located in northern Scotland, Findhorn is one of the best-known intentional communities in the world and is a major international center of adult education and personal and spiritual transformation, offering people many ways to visit, live, and work there. They are an aspiring ecovillage and have an ecovillage education program.
EcoVillage at Ithaca, located in upstate New York, is part of a growing global movement for a saner, more sustainable human culture. Comprising an intentional community and a non-profit educational organization, the project is developing an alternative model for suburban living which provides a satisfying, healthy, socially rich lifestyle, while minimizing ecological impacts.
Is an intentional community in southern Tennessee that began in 1971. It has an ecovillage training center that provides a whole systems immersion experience of ecovillage living, together with classes of instruction, access to information, tools and resources, and on-site and off-site consulting and outreach experiences