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Camphill Community: Clanabogan
Camphill Community Clanabogan lies on 116 acres (52 hectares) of land in the beautiful rolling countryside of Co. Tyrone, 4 miles (6 km) from the town Omagh. It began in 1984 and now over 75 people live here in a variety of shared households. In this therapeutic life sharing community, adults who have learning disabilities live and work together with co-workers and their children. … Read more
Redfield Community
Redfield is an Intentional Community situated in North Buckinghamshire, England. The house is a large old mansion with 17 acres of gardens, woodland and pasture surrounded by farmland. Our legal structure is that of a Fully Mutual Housing Co-operative, where members are effectively both Landlord and Tenant. The legal structure merely forms the bare bones of a culture of collective living that has developed since 1978.We live as a single household which means that we spend a lot of time together. … Read more
Ecotopia Romania Association
We came together in 1997-98 as members of a student environmentalist group. We were based in Timisoara, the most developed part of Romania, we were fortunate to see the 'modernisation' but also holes in its glamorous picture. We decided to set ourselves 'separately' from polution and over-consumption. After visiting ecovillages in Europe, we came home with a quite clear vision which was including LETS, solar panels and permaculture designs. When we arrived in Stanciova - a small village (300 … Read more
Kibbutz Lotan
Kibbutz Lotan is located in the far South of Israel, 55 kmorth of Eilat. "Members" of the cooperative fluctuate between 45-65, 4070 children. The community is multi-generational with students and volunteers from Israel and abroad coming for educational programmes. We are a cooperative settlement, jointly owning the land, community buildings and means of production. Joint economic initiatives include date orchards, dairy, photovoltaic electricity production, eco-tourism guest house and our Center … Read more
Munksøgårds
Munksøgård is situated near Roskilde on Zeeland just half an hour by train from Copenhagen. The community's focus is on finding solutions to living in ways that are environmentally sustainable together with people from different backgrounds. Munksøgård sonsists of 100 houses divided into 5 groups of two-storey buildings each situated around a farmhouse which acts as the common house for eating together and hosting social events. The different groups are composed of different types of … Read more
La Comune di Bagnaia
The commune of Bagnaia was founded in 1979. Its aim is to share human and economic resources and to experience group living based on the principles of reciprocal respect and comprehension,collaboration, equality. All property is communally owned. All decisions are taken by consensus. Each member chooses hisher own job,which can be within the commune , in agriculture or in crafts, or outside,according to individual choices and competencies. At present the group consists of about 20 people, … Read more
Libera Universitá di Alcatraz
Alcatraz is a hotel, and a restaurant. But Alcatraz is a utopia in progress also. Since the universe did not totally satisfy us, we decided to improve the quality of spaghetti and to come and live here, where we formed an alliance with the centuries-old woods of this valley. We will defend the trees from woodcutters in order to see them turning green each spring. Alcatraz is an association of people fond of good eating and good manners who are connected with ARCI. You can find the quality of … Read more
Gunes Koy
Ankara Gunes Village has been established as a cooperative by 9 members on September 2000. Several of the members of our organization are either from Middle East Technical university, or graduates of the university. The aim of our coopearative is to develop and apply a healthy, natural and ecological lifestyle. The activities of our group will extend the development energy efficient houses for living, permaculture, collection of endengered plants in a botanical garden, use of renewable energy … Read more
Braziers Park
Braziers Park is a community, a residential college and an architectural treasure hidden deep in the south Oxfordshire countryside in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It was founded in 1950 as an educational trust, and is a continuing experiment in the advantages and problems of living in a group. Community members share responsibility for running the mansion house (a Grade II* listed building), 55 acres of land, organic kitchen garden and livestock, facilitating courses and organising … Read more
