Wongsanit Ashram was founded in 1984 by social activist Sulak Sivaraksa and colleagues. It is a spiritual activist community devoted to developing and promoting an alternative lifestyle that is grounded in Buddhist Dharma, cultural diversity and environmental sustainability. It is home to educators and social activists who lead programmes in grassroots leadership, in natural construction techniques, and in empowering marginalised communities. The EDE will start at the Ashram but include sites … Read more
Cite Ecologique (Qc, Canada)
La Cité Écologique of Quebec, Canada, covers 700 acres of land. Near 100 people live on the property, participating in different ways to the school and working within the ecovillage’s businesses. Education is offered on-site from kindergarten to graduation and can even continue after within an entrepreneurship program. … Read more
Honeyville Farm
Honeyville Nature Reserve is situated in the Eastern Cape bordering the Baviaanskloof Nature Reserve.It is an hour from Port Elizabeth inland from Jeffreys Bay and Cape St Francis and St Francis Bay. It is composed of 800 hectares of land of which only 45 hectares are reserved for sustainable development. The remaining land is protected wild land and rich in biodiversity. Of the 30 hectares of old arable land we are currently farming organic produce on 10 acres.. We support a Permaculture ethos … Read more
Umphakatsi Peace Ecovillage
Promote and learn about: - Trust for self and others - Promote optimum use of resource and low impact lifestyle - All voices must be heard - Promote daily activities on healing of body, mind, soul and spirit. - Allow spontaneity and creativity - Use and development of images supporting our vision - Research and practice on renewable energy, wastemanagement, biodiversity and innovative technologies - Natural learning promoted - Use rights based approaches to holistic sustainable … Read more
TERRE DES JEUNES TOGO
The Terre des jeunes ecovillage is a place where environmentally-minded youth and families from Togo’s dozens of ethnic groups are invited to share and learn about low-tech, traditional technologies in harmony with nature: permaculture, building techniques, sustainable micro-businesses. … Read more
Hearth & Soul Eco Farm
We are situated in a beautiful indigenous Cape flora area in South Africa, with our own spring water tapped straight from the mountain, a poplar forest and a eucalyptus woodlot. The farm is ideally located 2hrs drive from Cape Town, and 50km from Hermanus, a town with services, supplies and infrastructure. Currently we operate as a spiritual retreat centre, and are in the process of developing our own sustainable organic vegetable and food supply. We aim to attract like-minded people to … Read more
STUDENTS FOR GLOBAL DEMOCRACY UGAND
Students for Global Democracy -Uganda is a registered organization, with registration No. 120563 under the Company Act of the Republic of Uganda under. It is a non profit-making, non political and non discriminating organization that recognizes the value of making friends, building partnerships and networks, and respect for human diversity in opinions to promote human dignity. The Vision of SGD-Uganda is “An enlightened and empowered student community participating effectively in the … Read more
Bloemendal Farm Ecovillage
The plot is in Cape Town, South Africa. It is about 20km out of the city center and in an area already known as the bread-basket of Cape Town, as alot of the daily vegetable consuption comes from this area. The land itself has not been used for agriculture for over 20 years now. We are a small community that lives here, but I think that now is a good time to start making more progress. Now is the time to make better use of green technologies and to start networking with other communities so as … Read more
MACODA Eco Ville
The MACODA Eco Ville is made of 26 towns and villages of the Tewor District of Cape Mount County Liberia. The aim of the project is to reconstruct the community after 14 years of Civil War in Liberia and to introduce sustainable livelihoods to prevent rural -urban migration for the people to move from Tewor District to Monrovia the Capital City of Liberia. … Read more
Kuthumba Ecovillage
Founded in 1993 on the ethics of care for the nature that surrounds it, Kuthumba encompasses a vision of a healthy lifestyle and the opportunity for people to co-create an environment that allows each individual to harbour a sense of peace and growth. Homes at Kuthumba are built using green principles, and the community hopes to serve as a model for how others can contribute to the protection of the environment and foster environmental wisdom. More recently an influx of community-minded … Read more
