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	Ecovillage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ecovillages are intended to be socially, economically and ecologically sustainable intentional communities.
		The principles on which ecovillages rely can be applied to urban and rural settings, as well as to developing and developed countries.
		Rural ecovillages are usually based on organic farming, permaculture and other approaches which promote ecosystem function and biodiversity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ecovillage (499 words)

	Findhorn Foundation: Ecovillage Training
		The ecovillage model presents itself as an inspiring and viable solution to eradication of poverty and degradation of the environment, while combining a supportive social-cultural environment with a low-impact lifestyle.
		Ecovillage Education at Findhorn is a conscious response to the urgent environmental call of our times, which aims at the creation of conditions for sustainability and its vital consolidation on Earth.
		The Ecovillage Training is a capacity building programme, designed to make optimum use of the information available from the Findhorn Ecovillage and to provide a practical forum for learning and developing action plans.
	www.findhorn.org /ecovillage/display_new.php (752 words)

	Global EcoVillage - EcoVillages - Why? Where? What? Who?
		The Global EcoVillage development plan adopts an integrated approach to the numerous components of the EcoVillage, and, while earning a reasonable profit, the GEV Company takes on the task and the responsibility of designing and building a strong EcoVillage infrastructural framework at the physical, educational, socio-economic, and self-governmental levels.
		In addition to human beings, the EcoVillage is concerned with other species, their protection, preservation such as promoting the re-establishment of rare breeds, and the conservation of life and life systems in general.
		The local EcoVillage transit system is eventually to be connected to a station for an inter-urban electric train from the EcoVillage core to Amarillo, and eventually, other towns.
	globalecovillage.com /articles/12_ecovillages4ws.htm (1672 words)

	EcoVillage at Ithaca - Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Human scale, accessible and inspiring, the example of EcoVillage at Ithaca will help readers imagine fresh alternatives to "life as usual." It will appeal to all who are hungry to learn about successful working models of a more sustainable approach to living with each other and the Earth.
		Liz Walker’s “EcoVillage at Ithaca” is an achingly beautiful and finely told account of a group of people – part of a larger movement – living as modern pioneers of a sustainable future.
		This thoughtful, candid look at a successful ecovillage, by one of its cofounders is a must-read for anyone seriously interested in starting his or her own ecovillage or intentional community.
	www.ecovillage.ithaca.ny.us /evi-book.html (947 words)

	It Takes an Ecovillage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Central to the members' ecovillage vision was the preservation of 90 percent of their 176 acres as open space for organic agriculture, woods, meadows and wetlands, and the establishment of 50 acres as a permanent conservation easement, administered by a local land trust.
		LA Ecovillage is now in the process of buying the buildings from the nonprofit to take the next step in economic self-reliance and create their own resident-owned housing co-op.
		While urban or suburban ecovillage projects often are built and finished all at once, rural ecovillages tend to build incrementally, creating perennial construction zones filled with bare patches of graded, un-landscaped soil; stacks of lumber and straw bales; heaps of clay and barrels of slaking lime; and piles of construction debris.
	www.motherearthnews.com /library/2003_June_July/It_Takes_an_Ecovillage (2637 words)

	Ecovillage Network
		Every ecovillage community is created in response to the problems and resources in its region at the level of understanding the participants have.
		To help ecovillage planners and others think about, plan and select the systems most appropriate for their situation, a constant exchange of ideas within a greater sustainability network is desirable.
		The ecovillage network could have a central office, which could be here at the EVTC, which would coordinate activities, maintain a membership list and issue regular newsletters and updates.
	www.thefarm.org /charities/enna.html (461 words)

	Global Ecovillage Network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Global Ecovillage Network is a global association of people and communities (ecovillages) dedicated to living "sustainable plus" lives by restoring the land and adding more to the environment than is taken.
		The report found that although there were many interesting ecovillage projects, the full-scale ideal ecovillage did not yet exist.
		In 1995, the first international conference of ecovillage members, entitled Ecovillages and Sustainable Communities for the 21st Century, was held at Findhorn, Scotland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Global_Ecovillage_Network (423 words)

	New Standard of Living Blossoms at 'EcoVillage' (washingtonpost.com)
		At EcoVillage, which the O'Rears helped found, the idea is to live in harmony with Earth, and with one another.
		Three years after the first family moved in, residents profess an adoration for their community, one that they say rejects the smothering isolation that is all too common in modern suburbia while also embracing an environmentally sensitive way of living.
		Located near Lovettsville in northern Loudoun, EcoVillage is among the first of several nearby "co-housing" communities -- small-scale neighborhoods that operate on the basis of active resident participation and typically make decisions by consensus.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A3181-2004May30.html (701 words)

	PSContracting - An Expanding EcoVillage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		EcoVillage in Ithaca, New York, is a co-housing community that uses green building principles to guide its construction projects.
		During the years of planning meetings preceding the start of construction, the founding members of EcoVillage agreed that their new homes should be built with a high level of energy efficiency.
		EcoVillage is a thriving community and a successful example of energy-efficient clustered housing.
	pscontracting.com /psc/misc/dec04_edu_article.html (1241 words)

	Berea College - SENS - Ecovillage
		Guided by intertwined educational, environmental, and social goals, the Ecovillage is an ecologically-sustainable residential and learning complex designed to meet housing needs for student families, childcare for campus children, and provide a living/labor opportunity for students interested in sustainability.
		Rigorous performance goals for the Ecovillage include: reduction of energy use by 75%; reduction of per capita water use by 75%; treatment of sewage and wastewater on-site to swimmable quality, and recycling, reusing or composting at least 50% of waste.
		On-site treatment of waste is accomplished through the Ecological Machine, which converts sewage to swimmable quality water, and through a composting toilet in the SENS house.
	www.berea.edu /sens/ecovillage (262 words)

	EcoVillage of Loudoun County, VA: A Green Cohousing Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Welcome to EcoVillage of Loudoun County, Virginia - a soon-to-be-built residential community based on the social principles of cohousing and the environmental principles of sustainable development and sustainable living.
		This new community will be located on 180 acres of beautiful rolling hills in the in Northern Virginia countryside, near the hamlet of Taylorstown, and only about five miles from a commuter rail station that connects to Washington, D.C., as well as to many points in Maryland.
		When completed, EcoVillage of Loudoun County will be one of the largest intentional communities in the United States, with two distinct neighborhoods, each with 25 lots and its own common house.
	www.ecovil.com (334 words)

	CNN - All's natural in upstate New York "EcoVillage" - September 30, 1997
		One of the rules EcoVillage founders made for their community is that only 10 percent of its 176 acres can be built on.
		Much of the rest is used as a nature preserve and pesticide-free organic farm, which grows both flowers and vegetables.
		EcoVillage plans to add another cluster of homes to its current base and eventually grow to a village of 500 residents.
	www.cnn.com /EARTH/9709/30/ecovillage (514 words)

	The Ecovillage at Currumbin - The world's best ecologically sustainable village.
		The Ecovillage at Currumbin on Queensland's Gold Coast, Australia aims to be a world class ecological sustainable community.
		The Ecovillage at Currumbin is set within Australia beautiful Currumbin Valley in the Gold Coast Hinterland, Queensland, Australia and offers a new way of eco living.
		Ecovillage thinking challenges conventional community using "eco mimicry" where ecological landmatters are copied using green architecture and ecological design principles achieving sustainable ecovillage outcomes.
	www.theecovillage.com.au (236 words)

	EcoVillage of Loudoun County, Virginia: A Green Cohousing Community
		We have a daughter in elementary school and she is the guardian of two guinea pigs, a varying number of fish and in the future, a dog.
		Elders at EcoVillage will never need to worry that they could fall down and get hurt in their homes without anyone knowing for days, because EcoVillagers will be aware of the activity patterns of their elders and can check up on them regularly.
		EcoVillage is a great place for nature programs which could be conducted in connection with the local schools and youth groups.
	www.ecovil.com /Pages/villagelife.html (4785 words)

	DailyOM - Ecovillage Communities
		Ecovillages are intentional communities where people strive to live in harmony with the environment.
		What every ecovillage has in common is the desire to stop the destruction of the earth's natural resources while creating a supportive, stable community.
		An ecovillage can be just the place to get in touch with the planet while being a part of a community of like-minded individuals.
	www.dailyom.com /articles/2004/120.html (247 words)

	Living Routes - Ecovillage Basics
		Ecovillages are ecological communities that are meeting this challenge now by exploring how we can all live well - but lightly and with consideration.
		Ecovillages are dynamic social experiments that are developing and integrating new forms of economic, environmental, and social development.
		While all these features make ecovillages ideal locations for our programs, it is important to note that they are not utopias.
	www.livingroutes.org /programs/village.htm (563 words)

	Ecovillage Living :: Chelsea Green Publishing
		Ecovillage Living is a full-color guide to everything you've always wanted to know about ecovillages, from the people behind them to the tools to make them happen.
		This is an unprecedented how-to and why account of ecovillage living, and a vibrant story of people spearheading a lifestyle that is rapidly becoming a new global culture.
		Ecovillage Living is built around the ecological, social, and cultural-spiritual dimensions of ecovillages, each of which is subdivided into five core elements.
	www.chelseagreen.com /2004/items/397 (203 words)

	Piñon Ecovillage
		Piñon Ecovillage is located in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in the fertile Pojoaque (po-hwa-kay) Valley, 20 minutes' drive north of Santa Fe.
		Piñon Ecovillage is a member of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities (FEC) and the Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC).
		Piñon Ecovillage is located on a 1.5 acre site with many large trees, including plum, cherry, apricot, apple and pear trees, as well as cottonwood, spruce, juniper, and piñon.
	www.pinon-ecovillage.org (1071 words)

	EcoCity Cleveland \| Ecological Design
		The tool shed is a particularly poignant example of the EcoVillage project because, not only has it been an educational process with a green focus, but it has demonstrated how, in a thoughtful redevelopment, waste can be turned into a resource.
		In 2001, when work on the EcoVillage's W. 58th Street town homes was started, there was a beautiful old maple tree that had to be removed from the site.
		It is this vision that transformed a tree on W. 58th St. and a pile of straw bales, to a community process with feet in mud and hands in clay, into community resources where people gather to work, play, and celebrate.
	www.ecocitycleveland.org /ecologicaldesign/ecovillage/strawbale_toolshed.html (464 words)

	Gaia Trust - Ecovillages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As far as we know, the first appearance of the word "ecovillage" was in the preparation for a Gaia Trust seminar in Thy, Denmark in September 1991, arranged by Diane and Robert Gilman of the Context Institute in Seattle.
		The Global Ecovillage Network website also offers an answer to the question "What is an Ecovillage".
		A deeper appreciation of the progression of the movement and the issues involved can be obtained by reading about the Global Ecovillage Network History 1990-2004 and also the history of the oldest national network, going back to 1993 - the Danish Ecovillage Network.
	www.gaia.org /ecovillage/whats.asp (292 words)

	Natural Bridges EcoVillage: a planned sustainable community
		In the context of growing consumer awareness of environmental issues, there is a great need for practical, affordable communities supporting an environmental lifestyle that won't compromise modern expectations of personal comfort and social stability.
		EcoVillage communities are planned for diverse settings, including coastal, agricultural, recreational, and urban environments.
		EcoVillage work centers will combine high technology information services with high methodology management and personal growth services.
	www.ecotopia.com /ecovillage (633 words)

	Ecovillage Findhorn: new frontiers for sustainability
		The ecovillage model is a conscious response to the complex problem of how to transform our human settlements, whether they be villages, towns or cities, into full-featured sustainable communities, harmoniously and harmlessly integrated into the natural environment.
		We are a founder member of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), and work with intergovernmental agencies both educationally and in the creation of policy guidance for sustainable development and delivery of village-scale sustainability programmes.
		The session presented an integrated model for sustainability, as a resource to inspire the imagination of urban planners and mayors, from Latin America and the Caribbean encouraging environmentally responsible design and development of Latin American cities.
	www.ecovillagefindhorn.com (244 words)

	Ecovillage Training Center
		An ecovillage is only different from a traditional village in its ability to be sustained indefinitely into the future.
		Set amongst the Farm's 1700 acres of woods and meadows, the Ecovillage Training Center is a living laboratory with a mandate to increase biodiversity.
		An immediate goal is to foster the growth of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) and, specifically, its regional office for the Americas, The Ecovillage Network of the Americas (ENA).
	www.thefarm.org /etc (613 words)

	Knoxville Ecovillage Project
		The Knoxville Ecovillage will incorporate urban forest area, community gardens, clustered residential areas, cottage industry, non-profit organizations, community centers, etc. It could as such function as a synergy of environmental awareness and serve as a model for sustainable living and education.
		Although many desire a rural setting for an ecovillage, the difficulty associated with developing a remote village economy along with the recognized needs for social intercourse, ethnic, demographic, and cultural diversity seemed to lend itself to an urban setting with links to countryside satellites.
		An Ecovillage project that houses a variety of such organizations could very well be a binding factor that encourages communication and cooperation.
	www.discoveret.org /fgs/kevp (1710 words)

	Earthfuture - Talking Cedars
		We are in the process of seeking rezoning from Tofino District Council to enable part of the land to be developed as an ecovillage.
		An ecovillage is an urban or rural community whose members try to provide a high quality lifestyle without taking more from the Earth than they give back.
		Ecovillages attempt to integrate a supportive social environment with a low-impact way of life.
	www.earthfuture.com /talkingcedars (2057 words)

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