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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 (417 words)

	Ecovillages, Sustainable Development
		Ecovillages are urban or rural communities of people who strive to live a sustainable, satisfying lifestyle in harmony with each other, all other living beings and the Earth.
		Ecovillages embody a sense of unity with the natural world, fostering recognition of human life and the Earth itself as part of the larger cosmos.
		Ecovillages, by striving for lifestyles which are "successfully continuable into the indefinite future", are living models of sustainability, and examples of how action can be taken immediately.
	www.rhythmsoftheglobe.com /mind/discourses_ecovillages.html (239 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.
		In 1995, the first international conference of ecovillage members, entitled Ecovillages and Sustainable Communities for the 21st Century, was held at Findhorn, Scotland.
		GEN has offices and volunteers in each of its three Regions: GEN Europe, GEN Oceania and Asia (GENOA), and The Ecovillage Network of the Americas (ENA).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Global_Ecovillage_Network (413 words)

	Ecovillage
		This size is considered to be the maximum social network according to findings from sociology and anthropology.
		Larger towns of up to 2000 people are sometimes described as ecovillages, but technically, these transcend any reasonable definition of a single village and more properly describe clusters of same, each perhaps focusing on a different aspect of economy.
		The principles on which ecovillages rely can be applied to urban (see cohousing) and to rural settings, as well as to developing and developed countries.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/e/ec/ecovillage.html (376 words)

	-----:Voices: ----- The Women's College Magazine at Santa Monica College
		Ecovillagers strive to achieve this vision through adapting their lifestyles away from the detrimental practices found in much of western society.
		With the ecovillage located in close proximity to 25 major bus lines and 2 subway stations, most villagers choose not to own cars which are expensive and contribute to pollution and congestion in the city.
		The growing success of the Global Ecovillage Network, as seen in the L.A. village, shows that many people around the world have begun to understand that the survival of the human race is dependent upon joining together.
	www.smc.edu /voices/contents/sustainableliving.htm (995 words)

	GEN Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		GEN believes that traditional rural villages in the South have the potential to evolve into ecovillages for the benefit of local populations and the environment.
		In Senegal the first ecovillage network (GEN-Senegal) has been officially founded under the auspices of the Ministry of the Environment with an initial core group of twelve traditional villages committed to improve living conditions adopting ecological solutions.
		The Colufifa network was founded more than 20 years ago and comprises 350 traditional villages striving to create acceptable living conditions for their inhabitants through education, training and the creation of local employment for young people.
	www.gen-europe.org /networks/africa (380 words)

	NaturalLifeNetwork.com - Community
		The EcoVillage is a community that has developed a workable community around the principles of co-housing, environmental concern, efficiency and solar energy.
		World-wide network of builders of communities based on the principles of ecological living.
		GEN promotes and supports models of sustainable living globally, in order to inspire and encourage the creation of more viable lifestyles on this Earth.
	www.naturallifenetwork.com /community (248 words)

	Living Routes - Ecovillage Consortium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		There are thousands of ecovillages all over the world that are developing and refining social and ecological tools such as consensus decision making, inter-generational care, alternative economic models, whole systems design, permaculture practices, renewable energy systems, and alternative modes of education that offer positive visions and real-life solutions for humanity and the planet.
		The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) works internationally to support the development of sustainable human settlements, assist in the exchange of information among settlements and promote the knowledge of these settlements to a wider audience.
		The Ecovillage Network of the Americas (ENA) supports and publicizes the development of ecovillages and related sustainable projects in North America.
	www.livingroutes.org /consortium.html (275 words)

	planum - topics - community planning - links - international resources
		The Citizens Network for Sustainable Development (CitNet) is a volunteer organization established prior to the UN Earth Summit as a vehicle to work on issues relating to sustainable development, the environment, government policy, and civic participation.
		An International Network Dedicated to Community Service, Colleagueship and Learning Future Search Network initiates future search conferences that enable organizations and communities to transform and sustain their capability for cooperative action.
		The Network consists of activists and researchers from community and environmental groups, universities, and local administrations, who wish to share experineces and to participate in common research.
	www.planum.net /topics/main/m-comm-links-glob.htm (633 words)

	Eco-Village Resources - Eco-Villages
		The Ecovillage at Findhorn is a tangible demonstration of the links between the spiritual, social and economic aspects of life and is a synthesis of the very best of current thinking on human habitats.
		Auroville is a place in south India where, for more than thirty years, an increasing number of people from all over the world have been quietly and painstakingly working on the construction of a new township, a new way of living, a new way of being.
		Earthaven, a growing neo-tribal ecovillage, is dedicated to caring for people and the Earth by learning, living and demonstrating wholistic, sustainable culture.
	www.geocities.com /cmhensch/resource/evr-ecov.html (933 words)

	Albert Bates, Ecovillage Network of the Americas \| Grist Magazine \| Dispatches \| 04 Dec 2000
		Albert Bates is regional secretary for the Americas of the Global Ecovillage Network.
		The Ecovillage Network of the Americas (ENA) is now barely two years old, and already it has eight regional offices, each of which will send a representative to the meeting.
		Some of the regions (and most experimental ecovillages) are financially challenged and air travel can be prohibitive, so our plan has been to run these courses with a mix of paying and free participants and to use that income to bring our council representatives to Colombia.
	www.grist.org /comments/dispatches/2000/12/04/bates (1208 words)

	About Ross Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ross Jackson, together with his Danish wife Hildur, is the founder/chairman of Gaia Trust, a Danish charitable association whose main project is supporting the fast-growing ecovillage movement, and in particular GEN, the Global Ecovillage Network.
		Gaia Trust sees the appropriate response to this global crisis to be the encouragment of the development of good examples of ecovillages.
		GEN is a global network of autonomous regional ecovillage networks, which three major Regional Offices for the Western Hemisphere, Europe/Africa, and Asia/Oceania, and with a coordinating International Secretariat at the Gaia Trust office in Denmark.
	www.ross-jackson.com /copy_of_books/about.htm (354 words)

	Gaia Trust - Ecovillages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		GEN's primary purpose is information exchange among the thousands of projects across the world that are building and living in small intentional and traditional communities in harmony with nature, as well as information dissemination to the larger world.
		GEN does this with seminars, newsletters, educational programs at many ecovillages, and an active website with easily accessible contact addresses of members, resource lists, and links to related activities.
		For a fuller description, visit the GEN website, which has an enormous database of information on the many participating projects and related issues.
	www.gaia.org /ecovillage/gen.asp (198 words)

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		Network For a New Culture - new paradigms for relationship with self, others, community, the world at large; and supporting personal growth in an environment of truth, honesty, sharing, and cooperation.
		Ecovillage in Devon in the UK The isle of Erraid - a small sustainable community living lightly, close to the earth on a beautiful tiny Hebridean island off the west coast of Scotland, open to guests throughout the year.
		EcoVillage at Ithaca - (EVI) is a budding intentional community dedicated to exploring and modeling innovative approaches to ecological and social sustainability.
	www.ecovillagefindhorn.com /links/index.php (1008 words)

	Caravan: Newsletter of the Alliance for a Responsible and United World (Volume 2, December 1998)
		The concept of Ecovillage appeared in the Rio Conference in 1992 as a sustainable alternative to the prevalent model of the megapolis draining the countryside.
		According to Article 3 of the statutes of the GEN Association in Europe, an Ecovillage is "a habitat with a human dimension, which integrates human activities without causing any adverse effect to the natural environment, which supports a healthy human development, and which can be extended infinitely".
		Ecovillages represent a mosaic of experimental areas at the human level, for comprehensive and concrete research which is rooted in reality without losing sight of nature and solidarity.
	www.alliance21.org /caravan/en/2/pg19.htm (1106 words)

	Living Routes - Ecovillage Education Consortium
		There exists today a growing international network of "ecovillages" - communities that are striving to create cooperative lifestyles in harmony with their local environments.
		These ecovillages are refining social and ecological tools such as consensus decision making, ecological design, community-scale renewable energy systems, and organic farming that offer positive visions and alternatives for humanity and the planet.
		Ecovillages in other countries such as Crystal Waters (Australia), Findhorn (Scotland), and Auroville (India), and in North America such as Sirius (MA), the EcoVillage at Ithaca (NY), The Farm (TN), and Earthhaven (NC), have already experienced considerable success as educational centers, often in partnerships with schools of higher learning.
	www.habiter-autrement.org /05.eco-village/reseaueco/livingroutes/livingroutes.htm (1184 words)

	Our Affiliates: World - Network - www.sulak-sivaraksa.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		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.
		GEN's main aim is to support and encourage the evolution of sustainable settlements across the world, through:
		UNPO is an international organisation created by nations and peoples around the world, who are not represented as such in the world´s principal international organisations, such as the United Nations.
	www.sulak-sivaraksa.org /network5.php?print=1 (438 words)

	Ecovillage Findhorn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		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 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.ecovillagefindhorn.org (220 words)

	Global Ecovillage Network - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Gaia funded a study by Robert and Diane Gilman of sustainable communities around the world.
		By 2001, GEN had obtained consultative status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UNESCO).
		GEN has offices and volunteers in each of its three Regions: GEN Europe and Africa, GEN Oceania, and The Ecovillage Network of the Americas.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Global_Ecovillage_Network (384 words)

	Ecovillage Findhorn: Ecovillage Education
		We invite you to celebrate the first ten years of the Global Ecovillage Network with some of the pioneers of the ecovillage movement.
		* An open forum of ecovillagers and sustainability designers, especially those who were present at the launch of Global Ecovillage Network 10 years ago, as well as those who have come on board since, where we will be exploring the new frontiers for sustainability.
		Other themes we expect to explore during the week include the developing relationship between the ecovillage movement and the United Nations, and the increasingly influential profile of GEN among policy-makers and planners.
	www.ecovillagefindhorn.com /education/gen.php (372 words)

	EcoVillage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		From this location we can find out what ecovillages are, that there is an organization of ecovillages, get descriptions of ecovillages in the organization, see pictures of them and get much, much more.
		An ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy human development, and can be continued into the indefinite future.
		Eco-Villages are an integrated solution to the global social and ecological crisis, and are as appropriate to the industrialised world, both urban and rural, as to the remaining two thirds of the world.
	home.klis.com /~chebogue/p.amEcoVil.html (459 words)

	planum - webcompass - stakeholders / environment and landscape planning - world
		The EnviroLink Network was created in 1991 by Josh Knauer, while he was a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University.
		GEN's main aim is to support and encourage the evolution of sustainable settlements across the World.The European head office is located in Italy.
		Known Worldwide by its panda logo, WWF is the World's largest and most experienced independent conservation organization with 4.7 million supporters and a global network active in some 100 countries.
	www.planum.net /webcompass/main/m-stakeholders-env-w.html (801 words)

	Ecovillages - Web Guide - People in Action
		Since 1980 the Findhorn Foundation and Community has been involved in the development of the ecovillage as a natural continuation of its work with nature.
		Global confederation of people, ecovillage networks, ecocenters and communities, including Auroville (India), Christiania (Denmark), Crystal Waters (Australia), Findhorn (Scotland), The Farm (USA), and many more.
		Well-known cooperative, spiritual, country community and ecovillage, founded in 1971 by Stephen Gaskin and some hundreds of hippies, and based on the principles of nonviolence and a respect for the earth.
	peopleinaction.info /ecovillages (333 words)

	Co-operative Land Use - BC Institute for Co-operative Studies
		These umbrella organisations which have developed as networks, fellowships, and federations have helped provide those living in a co-operative setting with important information and access to useful learning resources.
		Although ecovillages are not incorporated as ‘co-ops,’ the many people and communities involved in the Global Ecovillage Network embrace co-operative forms of land ownership as a basis for developing sustainable lifestyles.
		The Cohousing Network advocates co-operative neighbourhoods that provide a balance between traditional forms of ownership and shared common facilities.
	web.uvic.ca /bcics/research/landuse/otherforms.htm (452 words)

	Rosneath Farm - Resources - Essays & Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Warwick, and other members of the Rosneath Farm community have used the pioneer work of others in the Ecovillage network to develop a two-level model involving annual scholarships and internships.
		Interns will have the opportunity to live and work in the community, usually for a period of three to six months but for up to 12 months in some circumstances, with the stay part of a private study tour or a recognised course they are undertaking.
		Discussions are underway with Max Lindegger and other members of the Global Ecovillage Network about how to link this research effort into a number of local and overseas academic programs.
	www.rosneath.com.au /resources/gap-essay.html (2044 words)

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